THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 72, 01–07 Dec

* Latest Multichain,
* Bridge Work,
* Pool Curation,
* MidgardV2 live,
* THORChain ViewBlock Dashboard,
* GrassRootsCrypto Youtube Series

Read more:

https://medium.com/thorchain/weekly-dev-update-72-e3e42ceeb6a2

THORChain Collectibles

The final collection, including criteria for award, and counts.

In total, around 1400 unique owners. In cases where there were more qualified members per collectible, members were randomly chosen. Some members may have qualified for and received more than 1 collectible.

Distribution is ongoing. There are some in reserve if members believe they were missed accidentally. There will be a form in the next few weeks for those members who believe they:
1) Staked in RUNEVault
2) Registered
3) Did not receive at least 1 collectible

An In-depth Guide to Thorchain’s Liquidity Pools

Understand how to use liquidity pools to earn greater, more stable and or less risky yields.

Written by @bitcoin_sage

https://medium.com/thorchain/an-in-depth-guide-to-thorchains-liquidity-pools-c4ea7829e1bf

Weekly Dev Update #73

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 73, 08–14 Dec; Multichain fixes, Wallet Integration, MidgardV2, Bridge updates.

https://medium.com/thorchain/weekly-dev-update-73-bf441ea87338

xchainjs

Announcing xchainjs - a lightweight javascript wallet library for cross-chain projects

Use if you need to support cross-chain wallets, defi apps and more.

Features:
* minimal features necessary to support wallets
* optional client extension for more advanced features
* built-in service providers to get balances and transactional history
* built-in fee recommendations

Library:
* a crypto package to create a cross-chain BIP39 keystore
* a utils package to access common chain functions
* chain clients with a single common interface

Currently support:
* bitcoin
* binance-chain
* ethereum
* cosmos
* polkadot
* thorchain

http://xchainjs.org
http://docs.xchainjs.org

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 74, 15–21 Dec

* Ethereum Support,
* ROUTER and SEEDSERVICE,
* Synthetics,
* Multichain Prep.

Read:
https://medium.com/thorchain/weekly-dev-update-74-7a4f6d2e7494

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 75, 22 Dec - 03 Jan

* Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash support, small improvements to clients

Read more:

https://medium.com/thorchain/weekly-dev-update-75-a5bd1ccfc88b

THORNode Diversification Incentives

Beginning next week, THORNodes that switch from AWS to *any* other provider will start to receive extra incentives, paid directly to their bond address, starting at 250 RUNE per node per week (until further notice).

This reward will increase at an additional 250 RUNE per week until AWS THORNodes are below 33% of the network. Ie, after 4 weeks, the reward to leave AWS will be 1000 RUNE per week.

The following Service Providers have guides on https://docs.thorchain.org/thornodes/kubernetes

* AWS ❌
* Azure 💰
* GCP 💰
* Linode 💰
* Bare Metal 💰
* Digital Ocean 💰

Note: Be extremely careful when leaving the network to set up a new node on a new provider. Do not rush. Make sure your bond is fully returned. Reach out to the team for any questions. Do not leave all at once, monitor the network for stability.
https://defi.delphidigital.io/thorchain/chaosnet/network

Monthly Treasury Report - Dec 2020

The treasury comprises of $14m, with a 36 month Runway. The protocol has 215m in RUNE reserves worth $300m.

Planned Obsolescence July 2022.

https://medium.com/thorchain/monthly-treasury-report-dec-2020-fb943e516e6d

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 76, 04–11 Jan;
* Ethereum Router Upgradeability,
* Bitcoin Cash finalised,
* Synthetic Assets,
* Midgard tweaks.

Read more:

https://medium.com/thorchain/weekly-dev-update-76-c107a42d1e9d

THORChain lists ETH.RUNE on Sushiswap 🍣

Initial pairs:

* RUNE:ETH
* RUNE:USDT
* RUNE:SUSHI

ETH.RUNE is a transitionary asset to grow liquidity ahead of the launch of THOR.RUNE and the Ethereum Bifröst.
Sushiswap pools will be incentivised from next week to grow liquidity.

A two-way bridge between BNB.RUNE and ETH.RUNE will be launched within 72hours to help arbitrage and move the supply.

https://sushiswap.vision/token/0x3155ba85d5f96b2d030a4966af206230e46849cb

RUNEBRIDGE LIVE

1) Min 100 RUNE, max 10000 RUNE (fee: 1 RUNE)
2) Test small amounts first
3) Be patient

https://runebridge.org/
backup: https://rune-bridge.web.app/

RUNEBRIDGE

1) Fee is now 5 RUNE (outbound gas costs are ~$7).
2) Report any UI bugs.
3) Bridge was expedited to meet the demand, please be patient.
4) Transaction backlog is being cleared.

https://runebridge.org/ (SSL is being refreshed)
backup: https://rune-bridge.web.app/ (SSL is live)

SUSHISWAP POOL INCENTIVISATION

From next week, the following three pools will receive up to 20k RUNE ($40k) each over the course of the week

* RUNE:ETH
* RUNE:USDT
* RUNE:SUSHI

Choose your pool wisely, hint, the shallowest pool will have the best yield.

RUNEBRIDGE

Site is live again and more stable. Enjoy!

If you are paranoid, DM an admin about how to do a swap manually across the bridge using TX memos.

https://runebridge.org/

LARGE BNB.RUNE -> ETH.RUNE swaps

If you would like to skip the bridge and do a large swap to ETH.RUNE (or back) (100k -> 1m+ RUNE ) dm @tgkai

(beware scammers)

Fee: 50 RUNE, will be processed every ~12 hours

Sushiswap Pool Incentives

The following pools received incentives:

* RUNE:ETH (10.5k RUNE)
* RUNE:USDT (6k RUNE)
* RUNE:SUSHI (13.5k RUNE)
Total: 30k RUNE

Will continue throughout the week.

https://sushiswap.vision/token/0x3155ba85d5f96b2d030a4966af206230e46849cb

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 77, 12–18 Jan

* BitcoinCash,
* Litecoin,
* ETH Router finalisation,
* Midgard Updates
* Community Dev Work

Learn more:

https://medium.com/thorchain/weekly-dev-update-77-e88e0e39b124

New THORChain v0.1 website is live!

Loud and proud, THORChain is going to make a splash.

Built by community contributors

https://thorchain.org/

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