TRX1 Dev Blog #4 (April 2021)

3 min readMay 3, 2021

Hey all. I’ll be brief. Only facts.

Chaosnetleaders

The new code for the leaderboard is ready, so the only thing to do was to deploy it for both BEPSwap and Multi-chain Chaosnet.

The MCCN version is https://leaderboard.thornode.org/
The old BEPSwap version was moved to https://leaderboard-bepswap.thornode.org/

Enjoy!

Runiverse

Unfortunately, I didn’t spend a lot of time on this project. However, I am progressing slowly but surely. What was done:

MCCN connection and solving compatibility issues
Parsing all types of TX, extraction TX’s volume
Working on TX animations
Logging major events in a debugging GUI
Developing the object and class hierarchy

aiothornode: Python library

Yay! Finally, it is published on PyPi and everyone is able to install it using the pip packet manager.

Added MCCN environment
Automatic banlist for bad nodes
A bunch of bugs were fixed and dependencies were updated
Deployed to PyPi (https://pypi.org/project/aiothornode/)

THORChain Monitoring bot

The bulk of this month’s work is the Telegram bot. Look at the list of tasks done:

Multi-chain support for Liquidity Reports
A new crypto logo downloader for multiple chains, including ERC20 tokens
Bug fixing in the bot’s dialogs to support MC
Improved formatting of money strings and other small visual changes
“Fees”-section is included in LP report (MCCN and SCCN)

Fixed exception when trying to delete “loading” sticker
Implemented a local module for preparing Liquidity provider reports to replace the 3rd party API and avoid compatibility problems
The “Fees”-section is also included in the summary LP card.
14-day chart for LP Summary reports!

An example of an LP summary card with a chart and fees.

Improved USD/Rune price calculation (weighted mean across stable-coin pools).
Universal pool state caching for every block height ever encountered.
TLV as sum of MCCN TLV and BEPSwap TLV.
THORChain stats button in the Metrics menu (User number, bond, add, withdraw stats, network security, APYs, and so on plus 24-hour change)

A new daily update of THORChain stats at the alert channel
Summary about THORChain nodes in the Metrics menu (status, IP, version, bond, slash points)

A new notification on Node churn (what nodes are churning in and out)
Stickers for #RAISETHECAPS alerts to make them more noticeable
Some minor layout and formatting enhancements
Link to the Chaosnetleaders at the metrics menu.
Now the bot regularly polls and stores the actual values of the constants and Mimir (for LP calculations and further use).
LP report generator performance is significantly improved by removing excessive Midgard requests (not published yet)
Started to implement IL protection calculator
Fixed crash when sending an RGBA PNG picture as a document to the avatar creator.
Fixed error connected with localization in the broadcasting module.
As usual, a lot of small bug fixes and code refactoring.
QA of course!

Links

MCCN Alert channel (English): https://t.me/thorchain_alert
MCCN Alert channel (Russian): https://t.me/thorchain_alert_rus
MCCN Bot: https://t.me/thor_infobot

BEPSwap alerts: https://t.me/bepswap_alert
BEPSwap Bot: https://t.me/thorchain_monitoring_bot

Miscellaneous

Also I am working on BEPSwap Impermanent Loss protection coverage calculator for all eligible members (this is for the sake of a community perspective).

Conclusion

Here are the plans for next month:

Personal notifications in the THORChain monitoring bot. I will probably add tools to facilitate node operators, such as slash points monitoring and node’s health monitoring.
Embed IL coverage figures into LP reports.
Finish all the basic animations for the Runiverse and present a dev preview.

Thank you, THOR Warriors. Be healthy and wealthy!