Jakob 🍫⚡️

[boone @BooneW]

Laura has platformed and propagated an impressive amount of misinformation about @THORChain recently, so allow me to set the record straight. To her credit though, Laura will be having TC co-founder @CBarraford on her show on Monday, to finally provide the other side to the story.

@tayvano_: “It’s not decentralized”

THORChain is very unique in all of crypto. It is no surprise that Taylor does not understand it, because while it superficially very much resembles other chains and protocols, it is not actually like any of them. Perhaps the easiest way to conceptualize and understand TC is to view it as a start up, ran by a DAO, that utilizes a blockchain, to offer permissionless native cross chain swaps.

TC is a Startup

The thing that TC is most is a cross chain decentralized exchange - a business. TC collects a fee for allowing users to permissionless trade a native, L1 token on one chain for a token on another. Businesses, as is hopefully obvious, cannot be immutable. They must be able to adapt to the market in order to remain competitive. Thus, the TC *protocol* is NOT immutable. It is governed by a DAO.

TC is a DAO

TC’s ultimate decision makers are its Node Operators, which control its Nodes. They vote onchain and thereby control the functioning of the protocol. Each Node gets one equal vote. They decide what version of the chain code to adopt, and thus also determine consensus.

A 2/3rds super majority of nodes can do essentially whatever they want. There are also several protocol processes that only require a simple majority to enact a change.

TC utilizes a blockchain

TC nodes run and validate the THORChain blockchain, which is a Cosmos tindermint chain. The TC blockchain IS immutable. Already we see how this can be tricky. The TC protocol is not immutable, but the TC blockchain is immutable - easy to confuse or conflate these two things.

TC offers permissionless native cross chain swaps

In addition to validating the TC blockchain, TC nodes also run full nodes for every chain that TC has integrated: $BTC, $ETH, bitcoin-cash:native, litecoin:native, $DOGE, BSC, $AVAX, $SOL, GAIA, TRON, $ZEC, BASE, and $XRP.
TC Nodes are split into groups of 16-20 called Asgard vaults, and each vault forms a giant multisig (TSS) wallet to custody exogenous assets - native tokens of each of those chains in the most trust-minimized way possible.
These exogenous assets are paired with TC’s native token $RUNE in k = xy swap pools to allow TC’s users to swap between real, native, L1 tokens.
TC’s guiding star is permissionless swaps. It is this criterion that shaped everything else about the protocol. TC believes that permissionless money needs a permissionless market.
Permissionless swaps are baked into TC’s very bones. There is nothing in the TC codebase that allows it to censor addresses or transactions. It is blind to the provenance of the funds that flow through it.

How decentralized is THORChain?

At the time of this writing, there are 103 active nodes (with another 15 eligible and waiting to join the active set). So 69 of them cooperating control the network.
However there are Node Operators (human individuals) who run more than one node (multi-node operators, MNOs) and thus have more than one vote in the TC DAO.
Due to the sybil problem, it is impossible to definitively determine how many people are required to meet that 69 node threshold. My honest guess is it’s somewhere around 20 currently.
Now 20 people might not sound like that many, but again, nothing in TC is as simple as it looks like from the outside. MNOs source bond from Bond Providers, and usually have a relationship with them. A BP’s influence upon a NO is roughly equivalent to the amount of RUNE bonded.
Thus, decision making is actually diffused throughout hundreds of BPs, and essentially all of them believe in permissionlessness.
NOs who vote against the will of their BPs will lose that bond, which dictates how many nodes they can run.
So in practice, it is the totality of RUNE holders that bond their RUNE (of which there are currently 736) that determine the choices of the protocol.
Understood this way, we can see that the TC DAO is actually very decentralized, and that it is the BPs, moreso than the NOs, that truly govern the network.
Additionally, TC is currently experiencing a NO explosion as numerous community members are being mentored and raised up by the experienced MNOs. MNOs are altruistically giving up their income and nodes so that TC may become more decentralized.

> "It's not secure"

TC, like many DeFi protocols, has suffered a few exploits and has lost money thereby. However users have always been made whole from these exploits, and no swapper has ever lost funds.

> "They've reallocated assets"

Taylor’s most correct and most damning allegation. TC created two poorly designed financial products, Savers and Lending (collectively known as ThorFi), that were essentially bad RUNE/BTC options and these blew up in early 2025. TC did end up confiscating user funds, but issued a preferred equity token to them with the aim of eventually making it back to them. There's no sugarcoating this, it is a huge black eye for TC.

> “Code not open source”

TC is open source, with the very minor exception that its TSS library (the source of its May 2026 hack) is temporarily closed source while its cryptographic security is reviewed and assured. The TSS library is expected to once again be published with the next release, 3.21.

> “It’s not permissionless”

TC swaps are permissionless. Protocol actions/choices are determined by consensus of the DAO, as has been discussed.

> “There’s an admin key”

There is not. It was deprecated in Jan 2025, right after it was used to set off the ThorFi collapse.

> “Stopped the chain”

Correct, the DAO stopped the chain to fix what was broken.

> “The actual people behind it is dwindling to nearly zero”

The exact opposite actually. As discussed above.

[Rujira @RujiraNetwork]

Congrats, THORChain! Decentralized permissionless cross-chain swaps for $ZEC are live!

This also opens the door for ZEC on Rujira, where we plan to support it across trading, CCL, DCL, lending and borrowing.

DeFi for ZEC is coming to Rujira.

[THORChain @THORChain]

The $ZEC pool is now live on THORChain.

The network churned and every node is watching the Zcash chain. @Zcash now has a truly permissionless venue.

Trading is the next step. Liquidity is shallow for now and will grow over time, so trade with caution in the early days.

[Maya Protocol @Maya_Protocol]

🚨 MAYA IS BACK!🚨

Tribe, MAYAChain v1.133.0 is live, and the recovery store migration at block 18,613,349 is complete. All checks match our ratified model 100%.

🔹Trading: Swaps and liquidity operations are fully active across Maya.

🔹Attacker neutralized: 8.87M CACAO burned. The attacker holds zero CACAO, LP positions, or trade balances.

🔹Pool repricing: 17 affected pools landed at $0.1035 per CACAO. https://t.co/NeBgT3vJ8q has been removed.

🔹LP status: LP units are untouched. Deposit values (ILP basis) are scaled to 70%.

🔹⁠Vault integrity: Asgard and vault balances match on-chain data with 100% precision across all chains.

Where are we in NR-1?

We’re currently on Step 6, and with the chain unhalted, we’re moving straight into Step 7.

Track live progress on the recovery dashboard created by the devs: https://t.co/vNNxm3e9ok

Fire up your frontends and start swapping. We are back! 🪓🔥

[boone @BooneW]

Holding the mfn line

thorchain:native

[Khal @khalkaz]

Just built a new tool for tracking @THORChain’s POL growth

20% of system income flows to permanent treasury LP positions

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[Rujira @RujiraNetwork]

Mobile traders, this one's for you 📲

Rujira Trade now lets you create orders and manage Automated Trading (CCL) strategies from your phone with a redesigned, smoother interface.

Try the update and let us know what you think 💜

[boone @BooneW]

Hey @Ripple community!

@THORChain is now buying ripple:native every block and "burning" (holding forever in our swap pool) it for you

[Rujira @RujiraNetwork]

How do @THORChain and Rujira turn native assets into an open financial system?

This article explains how cross-chain liquidity, Rujira products and economic activity connect both layers.

Revisit how far we have come and where we are going 💜
https://t.co/nibHHIRXPH

[UD $RUJI 🉐 ⚡ @UD_RUJI]

$RUJI is now have everything it needs to became the next stage DeFi.

If only there is an imminent generational altcoins bull-run coming up 😜

[Rujira @RujiraNetwork]

What if trading Bitcoin offered a CEX-like experience without the centralized exchange?

Rujira Trade is the only onchain orderbook DEX where you can trade native BTC alongside other major native assets.

Take a closer look at Rujira Trade 👇🧵

[Rujira @RujiraNetwork]

Your BTC can unlock liquidity without being sold.

Deposit BTC to Rujira, use it as collateral and borrow USDC, USDT or another supported asset through Rujira Money Market.

Keep your exposure to BTC while accessing liquidity 👇🧵

[codehans @codehans1]

V3 is here

Been a long time coming

For the first time ever, enshrined-oracle-aware trading strategies will be available to all. Including you

For the first time, your permissionless concentrated liquidity trades against @binance and @krakenfx, not just users on the same chain

[boone @BooneW]

⚡️POL on @THORChain ⚡️

The new System Income Protocol Owned Liquidity feature has now been live for 10 days, and has been a huge success!

Let me break it all down for you 🧵👇

[MOCA 🍥 @mocadotapp]

For those asking:

Yes, we will have full $XMR support for crosschain swaps using Thorchain’s infra.

And yes, we are already working on making Payments and Merchant settlement with Monero a reality.

[boone @BooneW]

⚡️THORChain 3.20 release ⚡️

One of the biggest upgrades to the @THORChain protocol of all time goes live Tuesday, 8/25 @ ~14:00UTC

- $XMR added
- $ZEC added
- Protocol Owned Liquidity turned on
- $SOL, $BASE, $BNB reenabled
- Stable Reserve
- Much more

🧵👇

[Mark from Denmark @markfromdenmar_]

🚀

[Preston Thornburg @ptonewreckin]

@Maya_Protocol has a great team with high conviction. This is a bump in the road and they’ll overcome it.

[MOCA 🍥 @mocadotapp]

Which way modern merchant?

[Eric 🍥 @EricOnchain]

Maya Protocol is one of the companies I admire and respect the most, I know they will bounce back harder and stronger.

We're with you, tribe.