Topic
Protocols that let assets on separate chains trade against each other without wrapped representations or custodial intermediaries.
THORChain took in about $404,600 in swap fees from October 5 to 11, more than double the week before its September surge. Cryptopolitan's count has that 82% below the hack week, and its "no exploit money" label rests on an absence of reports.
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Tether froze about 1.45 million USDT in four THORChain vaults on Tron, taking the protocol's Tron swaps offline. That is about 3% of THORChain's liquidity, and it left Tron-side liquidity providers holding tokens that cannot move.
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Swap protocols and wallets collected $761,725 in fees moving funds from the $387.5 million Bitget hack, researcher Andrey Sergeenkov found. Part of $259,718 in linked THORChain affiliate fees reached an OKX-labeled wallet, where deposit records could identify a holder.
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NEAR Intents' SHIELD layer refused all but $166,000 of a $50 million-plus attempt by Bitget's hackers. That makes screening policy the clearest difference between NEAR and THORChain. Each protocol carries a different exposure because of it.
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NEAR Intents' SHIELD blocked $50 million of Bitget hack funds while THORChain declined Bitget's request to stop the flow. Lawyer Yuriy Brisov says claimants can use that shown control against NEAR in cases far beyond this one.
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Version 3.20 lets Monero and Zcash trade against bitcoin, ether and stablecoins inside THORChain's own pools, which makes pool depth rather than the 8.9% price pop the figure that decides how much of this route is usable.
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