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thorchain ($RUNE) earned $420k in fees from 24 hours of lazarus group laundering. that's more than its entire legitimate quarterly fee run rate of $3.1m annualized from $5k/day baseline. 84x revenue spike. RUNE up 19% on it. admin keys removed, 67 anonymous validators, no blacklists, no freeze functions. protocol physically cannot comply with law enforcement. and monero integration launches may 10. the market is pricing stolen north korean ETH-to-BTC volume as bullish product-market fit. either censorship resistance survives the OFAC hammer and this becomes the most important protocol in DeFi, or RUNE gets the tornado cash treatment. there is no middle ground here

thorchain ($RUNE) just processed $176m in DPRK-linked exploit funds from ETH to BTC and the token is up 6.7% on the day. market is pricing pure utility at $0.45 with zero regulatory premium baked in. now monero integration launches may 10 with FROST threshold signatures enabling atomic ETH to BTC to XMR swaps. no KYC, no admin keys, no bridge contracts to freeze, 105 distributed nodes. this is the tornado cash test on steroids except thorchain is embedded in trust wallet, ledger, OKX, and bitget serving millions of users. too integrated to sanction cleanly, too effective at laundering to ignore. RUNE is the highest convexity vol setup in crypto right now. if privacy infra gets legitimized you own the cross-chain backbone. if treasury moves first you're holding the next sanctioned protocol. may and june will resolve this and the current price reflects neither outcome.

$121,657,063,146 swapped natively on THORChain since day one.⚡ Not bad for a permissionless protocol that will never ask for your ID. Full breakdown on @dune : dune.com/thorchain/thor…

$XMR has been demonized for offering privacy. A basic human right. As a result, most centralized exchanges have already delisted it, making it one of the most isolated assets in the space. @THORChain integrating $XMR is not just a new integration, it's creating permissionless privacy. This opens the door to a massive number of new privacy-focused products. As this will be the only route to permissionless privacy, volume on @THORChain could explode due to this single integration. If there is one integration that could trigger $RUNE's comeback, it's $XMR.

Real mainnet Monero. Real FROST clusters. The transparent casino is busy fighting each other with drammas, while the real builders are assembling the ultimate uncensorable escape hatch. Solving the 10-block output lock and dynamic gas for Monero in a decentralized threshold network is peak cryptographic engineering. The hell is over. The dark forest is about to get its biggest liquidity injection in history. @kyc_rip is wired and ready. "Mostly complete." While they run the final multi-node tests, our endpoints are actively polling the transitions. Watch the final countdown live: 🔗 kyc.rip/thorchain .

You’re underestimating XMR on THORChain It’s not just another swap option. Here’s what it actually means: >> You can buy and sell XMR directly from your phone >> It becomes uncensorable. Can't be shut. No platform risk >> It becomes unconditional. No KYC. No freezes. And more importantly: THORChain isn’t just a swap engine. It’s programmable liquidity! Once XMR is plugged in: >> decentralized XMR-backed stablecoins become possible >> entirely new privacy-first financial tools emerge This is Monero entering a new layer. Most people haven’t realized it yet.

$XMR on @THORChain just went from “someday” to “soon.” The most complex chain client ever attempted, built with the help of AI coding tools. Chad says the hard part is done. Saturday’s Space recap with @BooneW, @KentonC137 & @patriotsounds 👇🏻 blog.thorchain.org/how-boone-used…

The $1 billion milestone just hit on swap.thorchain.org ⚡️

THORChain has no block rewards. Every dollar of yield distributed to nodes and liquidity providers comes from real swap fees paid by real users. There isn’t any inflation nor token printing to subsidise activity that isn't there. This matters for $RUNE specifically. $RUNE sits in every single liquidity pool on the network. Every $BTC pool, every $ETH pool, every asset THORChain supports. It is the settlement layer connecting them all. More chains, more pools, more structural demand for $RUNE. On top of that, 5% of all network fees are used to burn $RUNE daily, reducing supply over time. No vesting schedules, no locked allocations. No bad surprises. And as the pool gets deeper and chains get integrated, $RUNE becomes more and more central to the system. New chains mean new communities reaching decentralised trading for the first time. That translates directly into swaps, fees, and $RUNE burn. The demand surface grows while the supply keeps shrinking.

We can’t wait to see $TAO integrated on @THORChain. That would open the door to borrowing USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, and more against TAO, directly from your own wallet. Decentralized and without KYC. Would you use DeFi to borrow against your TAO?

HISTORY IN THE MAKING: $XMR WILL GO LIVE ON A DEX! 🔥 What's being done is GENERATIONAL ! For the first time ever, @monero , a privacy chain, is going to have access to decentralised liquidity. This is huge for the entire crypto industry. Decentralized. Permissionless. Private. 🛡️ You aren’t bullish enough! 🔥🚀 $XMR $RUNE

Cross-chain limit swaps are coming to THORWallet ⚡️ Powered by @THORChain, you will be able to set limit prices across native assets directly inside the app. For example, BTC → ETH. No bridges No wrapping Just native cross-chain execution. Shipping in the next app version 📱

$2.8B in volume. 1.5M swaps. 78.5K unique wallets. $3.1M in fees. Quieter markets, but the protocol kept processing. @THORChain’s Full Q1 2026 report 🧵👇

OIP-194 is live on the forum and heading to Snapshot this week. Backing per OHM went up after OIP-191. This proposal accelerates how fast that increase reaches your borrowing capacity, expands the protocol's ability to take in new capital, and upgrades how buybacks execute.

Introducing: THORDEX Trading Terminal Built on top of @THORChain base layer limit orders. THORDEX Trading Terminal is the most decentralized trading terminal on Earth-919.

There is opportunity in every market, even when BTC moves sideways. You should have access to financial tools that work in quiet markets, not only when there is volatility. We build Rujira for every market condition. Our next major feature is coming soon. Are you ready?

We just crossed $100k in total borrowed assets on Rujira. Each milestone shows more people are using decentralized markets built around native assets, transparency, and equal opportunity for everyone. Thank you for being early. Bigger things ahead. Onwards!

Market making has traditionally been a game for large trading firms. With Custom Concentrated Liquidity (CCL), that changes. CCL will give anyone the ability to automatically trade and earn passive income from market volatility, 24/7. Let’s dive into the basics of CCL 👇🧵

Bitcoin proved the world that money can be transparent and verifiable. No secret rules. No privileged access. We are building omnichain DeFi on that same foundation. Rujira is fair by design and open to everyone. Are you joining us?

Jane Street was running an algorithm that dumped Bitcoin every single morning at 10am. Every day. For months. Crashing the price. Liquidating retail. Buying back lower. Rinse and repeat. The second they got sued it stopped. The 10am dump disappeared. Now Bitcoin just had the best day in months. One trading firm... That’s all it took to suppress the entire crypto market for months. Now ask yourself how much of the crypto price action is even real. How many people panic sold because the charts look terrible. How many people got liquidated. How many billions were taken from regular people by a single trading desk. And this is just the first one to get caught so far… it’s about to get VERY interesting.