THORChain upgrade enables native Monero swaps, boosting XMR 8.9%
THORChain (RUNE)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptocurrency.com.tr reports that THORChain's upgrade strengthens decentralized trading by enabling native Monero swaps. This development offers privacy coin users greater autonomy amid increasing regulatory pressures on exchanges. The move has reportedly boosted XMR by 8.9%.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for RUNE, measured when this story was written up on 30 August 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Whalio spot data for RUNE shows a price of $0.4670 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 48.9%, which is higher than the 24-hour ratio of 41.4%. However, the 4-hour buy ratio has dropped to 34.2%, indicating that buying pressure is fading over the medium term. The volume delta is negative across all timeframes, with -$857 in the last hour and -$67,498 over four hours. This means that sell volume has exceeded buy volume, pushing the cumulative volume delta down by $62,818 in the last 24 hours.
The latest daily buy ratio of 44.5% sits at the 5th percentile of the last 281 days, against a median of 50.4% - among the weakest buying days it has had.
Twenty-four hours later
What RUNE did over the 23 hours after the story broke. The market moves for its own reasons; this is what happened, not what the story caused.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for RUNE, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the buy ratio averaged 47.5%, making today's 24-hour ratio of 41.4% notably lower by 6.1 points. Volume has been weak, sitting at just 0.34 times the average, while net buying occurred on only 1 of the last 7 days. The coin has seen a price change of -1.5% over eight days, with a total volume delta of -$719,487. This suggests that today's trading activity is part of a broader trend of subdued interest rather than an isolated event.