THORChain brings DeFi yields and swaps to DOGE
Dogecoin users can now swap their favorite memecoin for native BTC, ETH, BNB and stablecoins using THORSwap. Cross-chain liquidity network THORChain has enabled support for Dogecoin (DOGE) — bringing a new suite of decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities to the popular memecoin.Beginning this week, users have the ability to swap DOGE or earn yields on their DOGE holdings using THORSwap, a non-custodial decentralized exchange. In practice, this means users can swap DOGE for native assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), Litecoin (LTC) and stablecoins such as Tether....
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RUNE, native token of the cross-chain decentralized exchange THORChain, is currently one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies in the market, boasting of a 31.5 % price increase in the last 24 hours. Based on data from Coingecko, this price gain only underlines the remarkable bullish form of RUNE in the past few weeks, as the token is up by 115.0% and 212.3% on the 14-day and 30-day charts, respectively. Interestingly, this sustained bullish pressure in the RUNE market has resulted in the DeFi coin attaining a new yearly high of $5.31 and a peak daily trading volume of $1.28 billion.....
Just recently, Shapeshift founder and CEO Erik Voorhees published a blog post about a new project called Thorchain, a protocol that allows for decentralized exchanges without wrapping or bridging technology commonly used today. Thorchain launched on April 13, 2021, and the Shapeshift founder recently revealed his company is the first to leverage the multi-chain protocol in order to provide decentralized swaps in a noncustodial fashion. Shapeshift Leverages Thorchain for Multi-Chain Unwrapped Swaps Back in September 2018, the popular trading application Shapeshift changed its business model....
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice — shame on me. Fool me three times... or four? How a community-focused project regained its footing, where others stumbled and fell. THORChain hasn’t had an easy year. After three exploits in the space of a month during the summer the protocol’s native token (RUNE) took a beating, plummeting from all-time highs over $20.00 in May to a low of around $3.50 in late July.Billed as a way to exchange crypto assets across different blockchains without an intermediary, the protocol disabled swaps completely as it looked to harden the network against....
The team stated that the next steps were to find the source of the non-determinism, release an update, and restart the state machine, but there have been no updates since. Cross-chain exchange and proof-of-bond network THORChain was halted earlier today as the result of a bug causing “non-determinism between individual nodes."At around 8 pm UTC, the THORChain team initially tweeted that developers were aware of a chain outage and were working to find the root cause of the issue. Roughly four hours later, the team posted a further update noting that “consensus halts in a distributed state....
Some buzz has now surrounded ThorChain after new on-chain info dropped that might change the trajectory of RUNE, its native token. According to CoinGecko, RUNE’s trajectory is upward with a whopping 17% gain since last week. This shows that investors believe RUNE has long-term potential once the effects of its latest developments are reflected on the platform. Related Reading: Despite A Stormy Market, Dogecoin Addresses Skyrocket To Over 6 Million Word has recently spread that ThorChain might be integrated with OKX in the future. This significantly changed investor outlook on the platform....