TRX1 Dev Blog #5 (May 2021)

3 min readJun 2, 2021

In May I was focusing on the Runiverse project to make its state machine work properly. The graphics have been decorated with a new animation system, and the laws of celestial mechanics have taken effect. At the same time I added a couple new helpful features to THORChain Monitoring bot.

Runiverse

The event recording tool was finished (MCCN and SCCN are supported)
Completed the animations state machine, so TX objects follow their paths between pools and wallets
Added a new data provider to playback recorded event streams
New physical model that obeys the laws of celestial mechanics
Graphics: added an environmental map filled with stars and nebulae
Graphics: added a new object class depicting user wallets
Graphics: added billboard-sprites for pools and wallets labels
Graphics: experimental bloom effect and post-processing composer
Graphics: added random rotations for objects in the scene
GUI: Improved logging system
GUI: Help page
GUI: Keyboard shortcuts
GUI: Full screen mode
Improved object hierarchy, introduced more configuration options
Bug fixing, preparing for distribution builds
Engaging a freelancer for implementing graphical effects

I could have posted a first preview version last month, but I prefer to make it more impressing by adding some GFX. I decided to expand my team by inviting one or two talented freelance developers.

Source code: https://github.com/tirinox/runiverse

THORChain Monitoring bot

Released the new version of LP yield info module. Faster, more accurate, and fee reports are included. It has few external API dependencies.
New flexible configuration manager, enable/disable for bot’s modules
Investigating and fixing the bug of “pool churn” notification spam. Added a cooldown timer and a new connection to Midgard V2 endpoint to verify the list of pools.
Created an impermanent loss protection calculator for BEPSwap. It scans the current state of Single chain Chaosnet and forms a table (XLSX) with a list of eligible liquidity providers and their expected compensation. The script is here: https://github.com/tirinox/thorchainmonitorbot/blob/master/app/tools/bepswap_protection/bepswap_protection.py See an example below:

Impermanent loss protection calculator for BEPSwap

Started working on node geo-location/provider analytics.
Also started working on a set of tools for node operators such as personal notifications about their nodes state, health and slash points accural
Improvements to localization strings
USDC is included to the stable coin list for determining weighted RUNE price
Now you can use URLs like this https://t.me/thor_infobot?start=bc1qrkd73r9596xneetl47rgq2c0q6nq2lm4f0jryj to share liquidity reports of any address.

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

Source code: https://github.com/tirinox/thorchainmonitorbot

Miscellaneous

We in the community have talked and agreed that it would be good to have a portal for ideas on how to improve THORChain.

So I decided to set up such a portal. Feel free to suggest your ideas here: https://ideas.thornode.org/

Also, I helped community members to kick off a new pool.

Conclusion

Shame on me for not fulfilling all of last month’s promises in full. But priorities sometimes change as we go along, so we have to switch to more pressing tasks.

My plans for June:

Node diversity analytics (by geo and provider)
Node Op tools (personal notification)
To add a few new helpful notifications regarding liquidity cap and network stability and security
More cool GFX for Runiverse and a first public release of it

Thank you, THOR Warriors. Be healthy and wealthy!