THORChain Livestream Podcast

Kenton shares the latest marketing plans, while Devel provides a protocol update covering network stability, delayed churns, and progress toward enabling Monero. The discussion also explores AI-assisted development, bond yield payouts, spam prevention, and Base Limit Orders designed to improve liquidity and swap execution on THORChain.Swap now https://swap.thorchain.org/?ref=g39yp9zwjslfTHORChain is a decentralized crypto exchange. THORChain is the first and biggest DEX for Bitcoin. You can use any self custody wallet to swap and there’s no KYC required.Timestamps:00:00:00 Introductions00:03:00 Marketing Update00:05:00 AI Is Great, but It Is Limited When It Comes to Articles00:07:00 Has AI Introduced More Bugs Due to the Massive Increase in Code Volume?00:09:00 THORChain Is Lucky It Existed Before AI, Allowing AI to Be Used for Improvements00:12:00 If THORChain Were Started From Scratch, Developers Could Struggle to Understand the Code Logic00:16:00 What Needs to Happen for XMR to Go Live?00:17:00 Two to Three Issues Were Blocking Outbounds00:18:00 Nodes Only Have 30 Seconds to Achieve Quorum on SOL Swaps00:19:00 BASE Reduced Block Times From 2 Seconds to 200ms00:22:00 Releasing Smaller Versions More Frequently00:23:00 ETH Double-Spend Scenario00:27:00 Nodes Are Focusing on Slash Point Issues and Other Optimizations00:31:00 After XMR, the Focus Will Be on Optimization and Stability00:33:00 There Is a Bug With Rebond on STO00:37:00 If Your Node Is at Max Capacity, Bond Yield Is a Great Option00:39:00 Great Royalty With Bond Yield00:41:00 Memoless Transactions Are Back!00:43:00 Why Memoless Is Important and How It Works00:45:00 How We Fixed Memoless and What an Attacker Attempted00:51:00 If You See Something Weird, Just Pause00:56:00 Secured Assets and MinSlip01:00:00 Clout Score01:05:00 BASE Limit Orders Update01:07:00 Pushing to Both Protocols at the Same Time01:11:00 Other Arbitrageurs Are in Contact and Approve of the Design01:15:00 Best-Case Scenario: 50% Reduction in Fees01:17:00 This Will Allow Us to Compete With NEAR Intents and Other Protocols01:22:00 Turning BLOs On and Off01:24:00 First Version of BLOs and Potential for Other Pools01:27:00 Developer Dropping BLO Bombs Regarding Potential01:32:00 Initially Limited by the Percentage Difference in Pool Prices01:37:00 Gas Fee Designs Regarding BLOs01:42:00 Future Considerations Regarding Stink Bids and POL Depth01:48:00 Boone Joins01:51:00 The Deeper the Pools, the More Potential Attack Vectors01:55:00 POL Should Be the Floor of the Market Cap01:57:00 THORChain Could Become the Stabilizing Force of the Industry02:03:00 Future Potential02:10:00 Boone.tools

We are joined by Andy from Liquify to discuss THORChain’s infrastructure, API challenges, and ongoing improvements. Kenton also shares an in-depth look at his marketing strategy and how he is building a funnel to turn awareness into actual users and swaps through STO. This includes improving the swap interface, strengthening SEO and social media presence, expanding outreach, and making it easier for newcomers to discover and use THORChain.Swap now https://swap.thorchain.org/?ref=g39yp9zwjslfTHORChain is a decentralized crypto exchange. THORChain is the first and biggest DEX for Bitcoin. You can use any self custody wallet to swap and there’s no KYC required.Timestamps:00:00:00 Introductions00:03:00 Andy Breaks Down RPC Endpoint Issues00:06:00 Nondeterminism Bugs and Huginn Update Issues00:10:00 The Latest Issues Are Related to THORChain Due to Huginn00:13:00 New Tool With Major Summary Changes00:17:00 Liquify Runs Support for 90 Other Ecosystems00:20:00 What Else Can Be Done to Make Things Better?00:23:00 Enclave: End-to-End Inference Product00:28:00 Audience Questions: Can THORChain Go Private? Can We Add an Intent-Based System?00:36:00 Andy Leaves, Big Marketing Update00:38:00 The Story Behind the Interface, Its Origins, and Marketing00:43:00 THORChain Is Not Invisible, SwapKit Is Invisible00:45:00 THORChain Brand00:48:00 Marketing Was All About Cleaning House00:49:00 Audience Questions00:52:00 Marketing Funnel00:57:00 You Can't Pay for Passion01:00:00 We Have Improved a Lot on SEO01:04:00 AI Optimizations01:06:00 Audience Question About Maya01:07:00 Negative PR and Good PR01:12:00 Articles and Newsletters01:16:00 Repetition Is Key01:20:00 SEO and AEO Strategy01:25:00 We Have Improved Massively in AI Rankings01:34:00 Swappers Are More Important Than Investors01:38:00 Research Platforms01:41:00 Token Terminal Will Be the Next Research Firm. They Have Direct Access to Anthropic01:48:00 Conferences01:51:00 We Can Get a Passionate Group of THORChads to Shill at Conferences — Kenton Will Pay for Your Merchandise01:53:00 Growth Potential01:57:00 Monero Is Going to Be Huge02:02:00 We Should Prioritize Chains That Are Passionate About THORChain02:08:00 Audience Question About Taking XRP and Putting It in XMR02:16:00 How Successful Has Marketing Been?02:20:00 The Vision for Marketing02:30:00 Kenton Gets Things Done!02:40:00 Potential Success and Catalysts02:48:00 Recap02:57:00 Looking Forward

In this episode, Denny and Kenton sit down with Aaluxx to discuss why Maya forked THORChain and the value of having two protocols for redundancy. They break down how the TCY and Maya tokens work, explore Aztec.Swap now https://swap.thorchain.org/?ref=g39yp9zwjslfTHORChain is a decentralized crypto exchange. THORChain is the first and biggest DEX for Bitcoin. You can use any self custody wallet to swap and there’s no KYC required.Timestamps:00:00:00 Introductions00:02:00 Marketing Update00:06:00 Aaluxx Starts00:09:00 The Goal Was to Complement00:11:00 TCY Recap and Outcome00:15:00 TCY Was Built Based on the Idea of MAYA00:25:00 Fee Revenue Was THORChain's Superpower00:27:00 $MAYA Token Explanation00:30:00 How Do We Buy $MAYA?00:32:00 Always Learn From Other Swap Providers00:36:00 What Does Maya Protocol Do Differently?00:39:00 POL Coming to Maya Protocol?00:42:00 Audience Question: What Is Node Distribution?00:45:00 BLOs Coming to Maya Protocol00:47:00 Similar Asset Support Provides Good Redundancy00:54:00 Starsquid Is Very Cautious About Adding Shielded Zcash to THORChain00:57:00 Aztec's Intent-Based System Design01:02:00 Why Is Decentralizing a Sequencer Difficult?01:06:00 What About the Solvers? How Do You Know They're Not Centralized?01:09:00 Will Solvers Be Decentralized and Allow Anyone to Participate?01:10:00 Can THORChain and Maya Protocol Be Solvers for NEAR Intents?01:13:00 Best Interfaces for Maya Protocol: Native Swap, Edge Wallet, and THORWallet01:19:00 What Makes You So Committed to This Ecosystem?01:30:00 Why We Will Win

In this episode, Denny, Kenton, and Chad break down the Binance hack and discuss how a single compromised employee laptop can put billions of dollars at risk. They compare centralized exchanges to THORChain’s model, and discuss privacy, censorship resistance, and how node operators could protect themselves. The conversation also gets into multiple vaults, multisig signing pools, AI monitoring and fixing node issues, and making node operator commissions easier to access.Swap now https://swap.thorchain.org/?ref=g39yp9zwjslfTHORChain is a decentralized crypto exchange. THORChain is the first and biggest DEX for Bitcoin. You can use any self custody wallet to swap and there’s no KYC required.Timestamps:00:00:00 Introductions00:02:00 Marketing Update00:04:00 Chad's Idea of Explaining How THORChain Works00:06:00 Responding to People Online00:11:00 THORChain Not Existing Doesn't Change Obfuscation00:15:00 Compliance Conversation: Let's Exchange00:19:00 Screenshare of an Individual Who Talked About How THORChain Helps People00:24:00 BTC Mining Event in the Past About Not Observing Certain Transactions00:27:00 Clearing Up the Misconceptions About BTC00:32:00 Result of Trying to Stop a Decentralized System00:34:00 How the Hack Happened and Why THORChain Is the Solution00:38:00 Multisig Design and Monovault?00:42:00 AI Node Operators?00:46:00 AI, Space, and Technology00:57:00 Space Discussion Continues01:03:00 The Ethos of Freedom and Permissionlessness01:08:00 Current State of the Network01:10:00 XMR Network and Decentralized Network01:18:00 Maya Protocol01:29:00 The Importance of Not Having Dependencies01:33:00 POL Discussion: Resource Allocation01:38:00 Base Pause, 3.2201:43:00 3.21.2: SOL Can Be Reenabled01:45:00 Memoless Can Be Turned Back On01:48:00 Bond Yield Discussion01:56:00 Bonding Discussion02:05:00 RevShare02:09:00 Optimization Discussion02:13:00 Quote Experiment

In this episode, Eric from Moca explains how businesses can accept crypto payments through THORChain and settle in their preferred asset. They discuss merchant adoption, compliance, referral incentives, and Moca’s upcoming launch. We also apologise for the technical difficulties we experienced.Swap now https://swap.thorchain.org/?ref=g39yp9zwjslfTHORChain is a decentralized crypto exchange. THORChain is the first and biggest DEX for Bitcoin. You can use any self custody wallet to swap and there’s no KYC required.Timestamps:00:00:00 Introductions00:02:22 Marketing Update00:05:07 MOCA Introduction00:11:07 Friction in Finance Leads to Losing Customers00:13:03 MOCA Is a Point-of-Sale App00:16:45 Does MOCA Require Both the Merchant and Customer?00:20:26 APIs That Wallets Can Integrate in Less Than One Day00:22:47 Building Circular Economies00:31:53 Stablecoin Adoption Is Bullish for MOCA00:34:12 MOCA's Technology and Decentralization00:39:34 MOCA Is a Trojan Horse for Freedom00:41:08 MOCA Is No-KYC00:44:17 What Languages and Local Currencies Does MOCA Support?00:47:01 Bitcoin Cash and Dash Communities Are Excited About MOCA00:48:28 MOCA's Marketing Strategy00:54:57 The Cost Savings00:55:23 How Are People Compensated for Promoting MOCA?00:59:30 Why Crypto Communities Are Incentivized to Promote MOCA01:07:27 Exploring MOCA's Future Utility01:14:39 MOCA Platform Demonstration01:22:18 What's Coming Next for MOCA's Point of Sale?01:27:34 MOCA Is Almost Ready to Go01:38:12 Final Thoughts