%{{tag.tag}} {{articledata.title}} {{moment(articledata.cdate)}} @{{articledata.company.replace(" ","")}} comment Cryptoprowl / THORChain (CRYPTO: $RUNE ) processed $2.82 billion in swap volume during the first quarter of 2026, generating $3.3 million in swap fees and $1.9 million in affiliate revenue as bitcoin pairs continued to drive most of the network’s activity. The protocol’s largest route was BTC-ETH, which accounted for about $980.9 million in volume and $2.1 million in swap fees during the quarter. The numbers give THORChain a cleaner operating picture after a quarter focused heavily on performance and usability. Liquidity fell from $87.9 million to $66.4 million, but the protocol still moved meaningful volume while rolling out changes meant to make native cross-chain swaps faster and less error-prone. Rapid swaps are now fully functional, memoless transactions have been extended across the swap flow, and the new Native API is live, reducing reliance on third-party SDK and API providers. The largest product milestone was the launch of Solana (CRYPTO: $SOL ) support. THORChain said the integration required a different technical approach because of Solana’s architecture, including work around EdDSA signatures, node stability and transaction handling. Liquidity is still being added, but the launch gives Solana users a native route to move assets across chains without wrapped tokens or bridge-based workarounds. The roadmap is also widening. THORChain said groundwork is in place for Polygon, Cardano (CRYPTO: $ADA ), Sui (CRYPTO: $SUI ) and Zcash (CRYPTO: $ZEC ), with Monero (CRYPTO: $XMR) and TAO (CRYPTO: $TAO) also in progress. On tokenomics, a proposed Reserve-held RUNE burn would bring total supply closer to roughly 360 million RUNE, while new protocol-owned liquidity mechanisms are being discussed to allocate capital toward higher-fee pools. For a protocol built around native asset swaps, the quarter points to a more practical phase: less about proving cross-chain demand exists, and more about making the experience faster, broader and easier for wallets and users to rely on. THORChain (CRYPTO: RUNE) cryptocurrency is currently trading at $0.50 U.S. per digital token.