THORChain Liquidity Dynamics
THORChain Liquidity Dynamics
🔄 Capital Inflow Amplifies
THORChain, a decentralized liquidity protocol, experienced a net inflow of 1 BTC into its liquidity pools on March 18, 2024. The incoming 1 BTC was distributed across multiple pools and transmuted into both sides of the pools. The market capitalization of RUNE, THORChain's native token, expanded by a factor of approximately 10 due to the 30 million RUNE tokens in the pools compared to the 300 million outstanding supply. The dynamics illustrate how liquidity flows can amplify the impact on the protocol's token value.
2 BTC enters the system and 1 BTC leaves. Thus 1 BTC of capital is net retained by the system and put to work in liquidity pools. Note 1: it does not stay as 1 BTC; this is because the liquidity pools are spread over many pools, and it is transmuted to both sides of the pool.
Why does this account keep misrepresenting this? Bad look. 1 BTC is not “captured by the system in the liquidity pools” - that is a gross oversimplification. 2 BTC of value enter the system as collateral, 1 BTC of value leaves as the borrowed amount. The difference of 1 BTC *is
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