Mostly a light update — the team took 1.5 weeks off over Christmas, except for whoever runs the twitter account.
Summary
The team continues prep the chain for Multichain, significant progress has been made on Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash support.
THORNode
Bug-fixes and improvements, as well as some changes for Ethereum.
- Make sure the asset put into MaxGas is always gas asset
- Resolve “Switch smoke tests to midgard-v2”
- Update swap queue logic to pick correct pool when target asset is RUNE
- Remove AccountCoin type so Account can hold account information become chain agnostic
- Refactor pubkey manager to support contract
Midgard
Work continues to prep Midgard V2 to handle Multichain requirements.
- only meta + bugfix
- Make config overridable by using env variables with the MIDGARD_ prefix
- Update txs endpoint and rename to actions
Devops
Continual improvements.
Bridges
Actively-developed bridges will be reported here going forward. Bridges are commissioned once a team who can implement is identified and work begins.
- Bitcoin: Complete, edge case testing on live testnet
- Ethereum: Complete, prepping for testnet
- BitcoinCash: Complete, prepping for testnet
- Cosmos: Under review
- Haven: Under implementation
- Polkadot: Under implementation
Clients
BEPSwap Client
Numerous UI/UX tweaks based on community feedback
ASGARDEX Client
Work continues to prepare the client for Multichain Chaosnet.
Community Work
The following tools receive regular updates:
Telegram Bot
Twitter Bot
Delphi Defi Dashboard
https://defi.delphidigital.io/thorchain/chaosnet/network
THORChain Network Explorer
Continual Improvements, now with custom sub-domains for each net:
https://testnet.thorchain.net/
https://multichain-testnet.thorchain.net/
THORChain Official Block Explorer
https://viewblock.io/thorchain
THORChain Dashboard (ViewBlock)
https://dash.viewblock.io/d/thorchain
RUNEData
View historical yield and simulate future yield in pools:
RUNEBalance
View current arbitrage opportunities in the pools
https://www.runebalance.com/#/pools
RUNEStake
RUNEStake can be used to see yield in THORChain liquidity pools.
Trading Leaderboard
View the current leaderboard for traders on THORChain
https://leaderboard.thornode.org/
GrassRootsCrypto Youtube
GrassRootsCrypto consistently puts out great educational videos on THORChain, users should subscribe and bookmark the channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuC_PiCEsNIT6HH88r7vCsw/videos
Next Milestones
Multi-chain Testnet with Native Rune is deployed and being stabilised. The next milestone is to re-deploy with Ethereum, BitcoinCash and 0.40 update.
You can view the live network here:
http://18.198.92.45:1317/thorchain/doc/
Community
To keep up to date, please monitor community channels, particularly Telegram and Twitter:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/thorchain_org
- Telegram Community: https://t.me/thorchain_org
- Telegram Announcements: https://t.me/thorchain
- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/thorchain
- Github: https://github.com/thorchain
- Medium: https://medium.com/thorchain
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