Weekly Dev Update #57

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 19–24 Aug 2020; Testnet 5, Bepswap Improvements, Chaosnet Preparations

Summary

Testnet 5 has been stable so far, although some bugs have been patched, no bugs have ever been found on all 5 testnets that couldn’t be addressed via THORChain’s upgrade process. This has given the team confidence that the system is ready for Chaosnet.

Testnet 5–0.7.0

This update fixed a bug that caused a significant staker to lose funds during a churn event.

Testnet 5–0.7.1

This update fixed a consensus error from Binance Chain which caused Binance Chain observations to halt.

Midgard

Work continues to stabilise, increase performance and more. It is ready for Chaosnet.

BEPSwap

Some updates pushed to improve useability — BEPSwap frontend is ready for Chaosnet.

THORNode

Fixes, upgrades and work for multi-chain.

• Fix seeds testnet 5
• Resolve “[FIX] Undo stake if thornode fail to send out fund”
• Merge branch ‘591-issue’ into ‘testnet’
• avoid calculate current award for none active node
• Fix tools
• Resolve “[ADD] add ed25519 private key and pub key”
• Resolve “[FIX] Allow node operators to use multiple txs to bond”
• bump up version to 0.7.1

Midgard

Fixes, as well as a new endpoints for more optimised balance and pool data queries. Push pool depths to memory for faster returns.

• Resolve “Implement benchmark for “GetPoolData””
• Fix total earned
• Merge “develop” to “master”
• Merge master to testnet TN5
• Resolve “Implement “/history/pools” endpoint”
• Resolve “Fix swappersCount”
• Resolve “Add swap fields in /v1/pools/detail endpoint to pool cache”
• Merge master to testnet

Clients

BEPSwap Client

Numerous UI/UX tweaks based on community feedback

Graphs on home page (Volume to come)

Pool Detail Page for each pool

ASGARDEX Client

Work continues to prepare the client for Chaosnet.

Community Work

https://twitter.com/thor_bot was released that will do hourly snapshots of the network:

Delphi Defi Dashboard: https://defi.delphidigital.io/thorchain now shows a Network page dealing with system security and solvency:

https://defi.delphidigital.io/thorchain

Audits

A final infrastructure audit is planned post-Chaosnet.

Next Milestones

Chaosnet is being prepared.

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