Chad Barraford
@CBarraford
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the worlds biggest decentralized stable coin, $UST, is getting a Bitcoin pair on a decentralized exchange via
@THORChain
. Do i really need to explain why this is huge? why isn’t this bigger news?
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Hey
@coinbase
, when are you listing $RUNE? It’s a top 5 DeFi coin by mcap and it’s still not listed?
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Yield for the $UST pool is 38% right now and climbing. There is no place you can get a higher yield on $UST than
@THORChain
right now
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With
@binance
listing native $RUNE, the network has shed its "chaosnet" label, & is now mainnet! Chaosnet was about launching, getting it reliable/resilient/secure, & proving that the tech/cryptography/economics work.
Mainnet is about scaling and adoption, enter
@ninerealms_cap
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Confirmed an interview on
@BanklessHQ
with
@TrustlessState
&
@RyanSAdams
this Friday. And joining me on this interview is everyone's favorite OG,
@ErikVoorhees
.
Been waiting a long time for this opportunity, excited to show how
@THORChain
is the embodiment of the Bankless…
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🚨🚨🚨 Trading
#BTC
,
#ETH
, $USDC, etc on
@THORChain
is now CHEAPER than anywhere else, even
#Coinbase
,
#Binance
, etc!💰 Swap fees are as low as 5bps even for trades worth millions!
This should be the BIGGEST news in crypto, if you agree, hit retweet! If you don't, drop a comment
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Synthetic assets are now available
@THORChain
. Why is this a big deal? Follow the 🧵
#DEFI
$RUNE
#SYNTHETICS
#ActiveTheSynths
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THORChain hard fork complete! Took 2.5 hours in total, shrinking the chain state from over 500GB to just over 28MB! Congrats to the team, node operators, and community!
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While CeFi is imploding, DeFi expands to new grounds, new heights.
Today
@THORChain
launched Savers. Conceptually similar to BlockFi interest accounts on assets like BTC, but take away centralization, the black box, the borders, intrusion of privacy, censorship and permission
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Audit of
#Terra
chain client by
@TerraSCV
is completed. "No major issues were found". 10 bugs found, 3 "low" and 7 "informational". Official audit PDF will be release soon.
Some changes to make to the chain client, fork the network, then launch $LUNA $UST support on
@THORChain
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The cosmos community has always been resistant to $RUNE, not seeing it as part of the cosmos ecosystem. And as it performs better, it makes more and more sense that the cosmos community should get behind it.
Its mcap is not too far from surpassing $ATOM, and its now the 3rd…
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.
@THORChain
is the ONLY DEX that can support privacy-focused chains like
#Monero
and
#Zcash
. If this project doesn't stand with individual freedom, there is no one else that can. If a fork does occur, I would follow the community that moves toward civil rights.
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Order books are coming to
@THORChain
which will be the first time we've seen a multichain order book with native assets in DeFi history. Let's dive into what this means, its challenges, and how it benefits THORChain and the entire cryptocurrency as a whole.
Follow the white 🐇🧵
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I've never been more bullish $RUNE than I am now. Fundamentals have never been stronger. So proud of this community and what its built.
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If govt blacklisted uniswap for not KYCing, what would
@THORChain
do? Add KYC? How quickly could govt turn defi-->cefi?
You cant say "we are getting rid of centralized control!" only to bend the knee to centralization a moment later
Stand with
#defi
, stand with
#privacy
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If you're curious why $RUNE is pumping, two reasons...
1. Product Market Fit
2. First Class Tokenomics
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#Bitcoin
is BACK!
@THORChain
has re-enabled 4 out of 5 chains. Only
#Ethereum
remains, which is about a week away. It's been a long hard road to recovery, but the core devs and community delivered.
Undoubtably,
@THORChain
is back and better than it was before.
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I don't generally talk about $RUNE price, but I will say this.
Its had a good run recently (✊🪵), but look at why. The community has launched synths almost doubling the trade volume, launched $LUNA/ $UST support, LPs at ATH, bond/security at ATH. Fundamentals not hype.
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There is no DeFi protocol offering more value to this industry than
@THORChain
.
Prove me wrong.
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According to
@CoinMarketCap
, $RUNE is 38th largest mcap. This is an ATH for the project! 🎉
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My wife is launching her
#bullishlybred
(.com) NFT collection. She is selling real rare French Bulldog puppies as NFTs. Changed my avatar to the puppy (named $RUNE) in support of her.
Read the 🧵 for why this is significant.
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JP Morgan Chase has paid ~$35 billion in fines to the US govt and US victims for all sorts of fraud, price/market manipulation, various felonies, violating sanctions, misleading investors, etc.
And don't forget that time JP Morgan Chase paid $290 million to Epstein accusers, or…
BREAKING: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon takes a hardline stance against crypto, suggesting he'd close it down if in government, citing criminal use as the only true application.
“I've always been deeply opposed to Bitcoin.”
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today, $RUNE’s fundamentals are stronger today than ever before.
1) the network is more decentralized now than ever with the highest number of nodes, which is continuously expanding.
2) the network bond are near ATH high and the pools are deeper than ever.
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I was hoping to have the code for THORFi lending done by end of the year. Happy to say that the code is done.
The next phase is peer review/audit, then stagenet testing (and fixing any bugs discovered).
Hope to see this feature hit mainnet in Q1 2023
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**Trigger Warning** Unpopular opinion 👇🏻
🚫Staking is bullshit🚫 (mostly).
TLDR: Staking doesn't provide value to others, therefore it can only take yield from unwilling participants (inflation), which then creates a false yield, leaving you with less than you think.
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How
@THORChain
can succeed with an algo stable where $UST (and so many others) failed.
Thread time! 🧵👇
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Damn its good to be an LP right now. $RUNE
BTC: 24%
ETH: 26%
BUSD: 81%
DAI: 113%
BNB: 55%
USDC: 52%
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$1.1B in liquidations in the past 24 hours. None of them were on THORChain.
It's clear
@THORChain
is doing something very different from everyone else, solving problems the rest of the industry gave up on.
Bet on teams redefining what could be. Teams that are revolutionary,…
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.
@THORChain
is the 5th largest Bitcoin exchange in the world. And yet, no one knows about it. Let that sink in.
Fun fact on this fine Tuesday:
@THORChain
is the 5th largest BTC exchange in world (including CEXes!) by volume, and is neck-and-neck with
@krakenfx
. I predict TC will claim the
#3
spot under Binance by end of next year.
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To think, months ago we might see $6.5m in a single day of trading. Today, we're seeing $6.5m in a single trade. What a difference a day makes.
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Hey
@BanklessHQ
, you've never had someone from
@THORChain
on your podcast. I'm curious why. It's a legit project solving a legit problem and helping people to become bankless.
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Reminder that price is noise, fundamentals are signal. And right now, fundamentals are performing way better than price $RUNE
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This is a tweet 🧵for
@THORChain
lending FUDsters. I may write a follow on thread about how THORChain is different than Terra Luna specifically, but that is for another day. This thread is just to address common concerns/reactions to lending in hopes that the community uses these…
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Now that
@THORChain
is BACK, we should reflect on what it took to get here. Follow the 🧵
1/ Multiple external audits have been conducted, of which those audits found nothing critical (will be released publicly soon).
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Okay, this happened much faster than i thought. Just took 2 days instead of 2 months. But its happened,
@THORChain
has more trade volume in a week than
@CurveFinance
.
Next is
@PancakeSwap
🎯
Prediction:
@THORChain
will be beat out
@CurveFinance
on weekly trade volume by EOY, becoming the 3rd largest DEX in the world.
Tracking via
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According to
@MessariCrypto
,
@THORChain
is the third largest DeFi project in crypto.
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An interivew I did with
@ErikVoorhees
on
@BanklessHQ
hosted by
@TrustlessState
just dropped. Check it out.
Sorry
@RyanSAdams
couldn't make the interview, maybe next time.
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Across the
#DeFi
spectrum,
@THORChain
is one of the most innovative projects, period. It doesn't get enough credit for the level of contribution to the space it's made. I'm tempted to write a series of threads explaining each of these innovations and how they change the game. 🤔
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Bull market... Bear market... Doesn't matter... Focus on value proposition and keep shipping. 🛳
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Just realized that I'm followed by
@BarackObama
. Does this mean that the ex-prez is a THORChad? $RUNE
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.
@THORChain
hit a new milestone yesterday. The network successfully sharded it's TSS vault into 2 due to increased number of validators. This is a huge push for decentralization as the number of validators the network can support is only limited to the underlying cosmos framework
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There is something poetic about breaking $500m in daily swap volume, then a few hours later, break $5 $RUNE.
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This swap was LARGER than the pool itself, just executed with only 45bps for the protocol and 15bps for the UI (THORSwap).
Those who know, know how insane this is
🌊 Streaming swap finished
👤[ceye]: 162.2 $BTC → ⚡ → 161.2 $WBTC ($6.0M)
THORSwap Aff. fee: $9.0K‼️ (0.15%)
Slip: 0.060 %, liq. fee: $3.1K❗
⏱️ Time: 22 hours 43 min.
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A member of the
@THORChain
community told me that they put a downpayment on a house, thanks to THORChain lending.
This is someone using the innovation of lending to improve their quality of life. A real-world use case!
This was never possible before in
#DeFi
, at least not…
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Rough day for the LUNAtics. My heart goes out to anyone who got liquidated today.
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Ellie Hazel came into my life today. She is 5 lbs, 3 ounces. It took her 48 hours to arrive but she finally made it! My life has changed forever.
#bringthechaos
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.
@THORChain
is adding a "catch-all" protection against exploits. The network self monitors for insolvency conditions & autonomously halts itself when it detects discrepancy. This gives the community time to analyze what happened, and decide how the insolvency should be rectified
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checkout
@laurashin
+
@stablekwon
talking about
@THORChain
. A few comments/responses to the discussion 👇🧵
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In the next 12-24hrs,
@THORChain
will release a new version to testnet to validate that build by the team, community, auditors, etc. Assuming no bugs discovered to patch, this version will get pushed to MCCN and the network can restart trading again (for BNB only)
#roadToRecovery
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📢Exciting news! I'm unveiling a new project I've been quietly working on -
@ArkeoNetwork
. It's time to share the what, why, and how of our soon-to-launch public beta. Buckle up! 👀🧵
#Web3
#Blockchain
#ArkeoNetwork
[1/12]
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Markets are at peak FUD. Centralized exchanges and OTC dealers are paused. But
@THORChain
is still open and trading, as a dex should.
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now that CeFi is largely dead (at least for now). where is everyone going to get their native btc yield? 😉 $RUNE
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.
@Delphi_Digital
just launched a new report on
@THORChain
, which is super bullish. There is a lot in the report, with 7 key takeaways, but here are just 3 to tease you. 👇🧵
Become a member and read the full report here.
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The
@THORChain
network ran into a bug that caused the network to stop being able to produce blocks. All funds are safe.
Core devs found the issue and released a patch to fix it which is just awaiting node operators to adopt it and the network should naturally resume. $RUNE
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Hey
@TrustlessState
, heard you don't know much about
@THORChain
/ $RUNE. Its a dex that works cross chain (btc / eth / avax / bnb / doge / more). Its pumping because its now the 4th largest dex by volume over the last week (see ), getting close to…
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.
@THORChain
currently has 97 validators totaling 50m $RUNE, average 516k $RUNE (almost double the minimum). Its days away from hitting the artificial 100 validator cap.
There are 15 standby validators with enough $RUNE to churn in totaling 7.8m $RUNE (avg 222k).
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Two weeks ago,
@THORChain
released a new feature recently that allowed a small group of close friends to run a node together. Today there are 18 nodes running utilizing this feature.
This enables more people to run a node, making the network more decentralized.
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$RUNE added to
@TrustWalletApp
. The next question is, how long until people can swap on
@THORChain
within the app?
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With the launch of Savers, wanted to write a thread about all the ways that it can "go wrong", so that people are fully aware of the risks at stake. 🧵
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Many thanks to
@TrustlessState
for recording an episode of
@BanklessHQ
with me and
@ErikVoorhees
. It has a great conversation and looking forward to its release sometime after Turkey Day.
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We are 10 days into November and already have half the volume of Oct. Going to be a new record for
@THORChain
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Savers yield on
@THORChain
is crazy high.
$BTC 7%
$ETH 16%
$USDT 26%
$USDC 24%
$LTC 50%
$ATOM 25%
$DOGE 16%
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Prediction:
@THORChain
will be beat out
@CurveFinance
on weekly trade volume by EOY, becoming the 3rd largest DEX in the world.
Tracking via
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.
@THORChain
gives Layer1
#Bitcoin
yield on your Layer1
#Bitcoin
.
#RealYield
This should get at least 100k retweets. If it doesn't, I'll eat
@officialmcafee
's dick.
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Lending caps have been raised! Open a loan on
@THORChain
with 50% LTV, no liquidations, no expiry, and no interest. Native BTC or ETH is accepted as collateral. 30 day minimums. Supported UIs are
@THORSwap
,
@Lends_so
, and
@ShapeShift
.
These loans will only be available for so…
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ETH Trading enabled. 🔥
1 Minute to Go.
Where were you when THORChain restarted ETH?
$RUNE
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No one ever called
@SBF_FTX
"crypto's golden boy" except outside media. He was never our "golden boy", and we will never have a "golden boy".
We should never have too much focus/power/attention on any individual (including satoshi)
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In the last 24 hours, $RUNE is the 15th highest trading volume in all of crypto (according to
@CoinMarketCap
).
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Welcome to
@THORChain
's first bull market with:
• Streaming swaps which gave the DEX better price execution than any DEX or CEX
• Savers gives single asset yield (no IL) on blue chip assets like
#Bitcoin
• Lending with zero interest, zero liquidations, zero expiry on…
Welcome to
@OsmosisZone
's first bull market with:
• Concentrated liquidity
• Fee switch turned on
• Incentives reduced to barely nothing
• Cosmos native USDT, USDC, wBTC
• Large TIA and DYDX trading volumes
Keep an eye on the increasing volume (:
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$UST pool is now earning 20% yield, which is better than it sounds. This calculation includes 1 week of activity (there have been only 2 or 3 days). We can also start to see $BUSD yield coming down, which insinuates that $UST is catching up. Excited to see this
#USTFlippening
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.
@THORChain
is hiring! I haven't said that in years, retweet and help me spread the word. We're looking to expand the core protocol dev team, so looking for hard-working, self-starting, here-to-ship golang dev to work side-by-side with me.
#hiring
#golang
Interested? Read the 🧵
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Gaia/$ATOM was launched today on
@THORChain
, meanwhile, $AVAX launched on Stagenet. Things are heating up! 🔥🔥🔥
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Armchair warriors develop strong forearms from shaking their fists, while their legs develop muscular dystrophy. They haven't walked a path. They haven't learned that getting to Valhalla isn't a straight line. There are swamps, mountains, gorges, and lakes along the way that you…
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Nothing to see here. Just 22% APY on native Layer1
#Bitcoin
. Man, the crypto industry is very sleepy 😴😴😴. $RUNE
Now earning 22%+ with native $BTC $Rune thanks to Synths volume 🤝🤯
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This... is.... big...
#TrustWallet
is excited to announce its cross-chain swap integration with
@THORChain
! 💙⚡️
You can now easily swap pairs across
#BTC
,
#ETH
,
#BNB
&
#BUSD
, directly in the Trust Wallet app!
Full announcement & how-to guide below 👇
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Special thanks to the $RUNE community for sounding off and letting them know what's up. LFG!
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In
@THORChain
history, the most amount of
#Bitcoin
the network has held is 1,297. Today it has 927, half wasn't there a couple months ago thanks to savers. We may see new ATHs in the next couple of months.
How often do you see projects hit ATHs during the bottom of the bear?
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Loans on
@THORChain
have nearly doubled in the last 24hrs and yet the collateral value in rune has only increase by 0.5m rune. This is because all these loans being open caused price appreciation.
And because of this, the caps have only been filled by 2% since yesterday. And we…
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If I could have included one feature into the launch of
@THORChain
, it would of been streaming swaps. We've never seen a feature have such instant product market fit.
Do you agree? If not, what feature would you have liked to see at launch years ago.
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As of now over 1,000
#Bitcoin
has been deposited into
@THORChain
lending. The BTC pool itself has 1,200
#Bitcoin
. It took years to get that TVL, and only a few months to get that loan collateral deposited.
Lending > AMM?
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Once again $RUNE is the best performer of the last 7 days. Feels like this has been happening a lot lately
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.
@THORChain
gifts defi to
#DOGE
, which is prob the biggest thing to happen to that ecosystem in years, and 🦗🦗🦗 from
@elonmusk
? The
#DogeFather
needs to get on it!
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This is huge and most people have no idea it is going on😴😴😴
This ain't your ordinary DEX aggregation. It's novel, it's ground-breaking, and it changes everything in spot trading.
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Someone attempted to steal 10m $RUNE from the network last night. It did not work.
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I want to clear up
@THORChain
's relationship with
#IBC
and why it's made the decisions its made.
IBC is a good bridging design but doesn't meet the design specifications and requirements of the
@THORChain
project. 🧵
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It'll prob take a month to see the full swing of
#TrustWallet
swaps on
@THORChain
. But even now we are seeing good starting volume and pool yields on the rise.
Integrations like this is how we scale the network, find product market fit, and grow it's userbase.
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