When I look at the current state of the crypto industry, one thing becomes hard to ignore. A large portion of the conversation is no longer about what these systems enable. It is about price, momentum, and short-term gains. Every cycle, the same patterns repeat. New tokens appear, narratives form
THORChain v3.18 ships with 51 merged requests, introducing important economic upgrades such as the foundations for Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) and the new Dynamic Fee Model (ADR-026), both designed to strengthen THORChain’s long-term liquidity and fee architecture. Beyond the economic changes, the upgrade also prepares the foundations for future
Summary THORChain processed $2.82 billion in volume in Q1 2026, generating $3.3 million in fees and $1.9 million in affiliate revenue, with BTC pairs continuing to dominate activity. The quarter focused on improving performance and usability. Memoless transactions and rapid swaps are now fully live, making swaps
THORChain v3.17.0 is a record release, with over 100 merged requests. This acceleration is largely driven by Huginn AI, which helps handle minor issues and repetitive tasks, allowing developers to focus on higher-impact work. While no major new features are introduced, this upgrade focuses on what matters most:
THORChain is fully permissionless. Anyone can use it, from anywhere, without asking for permission or identifying themselves. But here's the part most people miss: it's also completely transparent. Every swap, every vault address, every inbound and outbound transaction is publicly visible onchain. The code doesn'
Your crypto origin story You’ve been grinding nonstop on Rujira as THORChain’s flagship app layer. What’s your crypto origin story? How did you first get into crypto and THORChain? And what was the moment that made you decide to start building this DeFi suite? I got into
THORChain can act as a backbone for liquidity and cross-chain swaps across wallets and decentralised exchanges. But how do you actually integrate it? Until now, there were two main options. The first is to work directly with THORChain’s tech stack. This gives full control, but comes with complexity. Integrators
THORChain’s ADR023 proposes a restructuring of the RUNE supply framework with a clear objective: simplify tokenomics and improve how the asset is perceived and evaluated. As the protocol has evolved, multiple legacy mechanisms have remained embedded in the supply structure. These no longer reflect how THORChain operates today. Instead,
Welcome to the March edition! We track security, liquidity, volume, fees, user activity, and supply across THORChain. March delivered more of the same restraint. Volume came in at $801M, down again from February's $882M, as crypto markets spent the month attempting to find a base after a brutal
Tokenisation is going to happen. In my view, it is not really a question of if. It is a question of how open the system will be, how much control governments and institutions will try to keep, and what kind of infrastructure ends up underneath it all. The reason tokenisation
1) What was “THE MOMENT” that made you leave traditional tech and go all-in on crypto? There was a very clear aha moment for me. In 2017, after I sold almost everything I owned and decided to travel the world, I met two guys in my first month who were
Let’s start at the beginning. How did you first discover crypto? I was on telegram and there was this bot that if you do captchas you get DOGE coins, me and my friends were spamming it to then use those DOGE coins to gamble on stake. This was long