$RUNE Upgrades

    Have you seen an uptick in the amount of $RUNE being upgraded recently? Look at both the $RUNE volume + number of wallets. What is the trend over time + also how much is ETH vs BNB?

    Hello! Toady we are talking about THorchain and thier recent big announcment: Upgrading the chain. but let's know the Thorchain at first:

    THORChain is a decentralized liquidity protocol that allows users to swap assets in a permissionless setting. It enables the exchange of native layer-1 assets like BTC by acting as a vault manager. And the special thing about THorchain is swapping Native tokens not wrapped ones! In fact, Thorchain is the only protocol to find orginal $BTC in defi + plus some other famous ones like $ETH, $LTC, $DOGE, $BNB, ... .

    Recently There is a big upgrade is ongoing on Thorchain,and it's about transfering wrapped version $RUNE (Thorchain's own and main token) tokens from BNB and ETH chains to the Thorchain's native version.

    Here we are reviewing users activity on this event.

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    (our starting the is 2022-02-04, the day of publishing the upgrade announcement on the Thorchian's medium page: https://medium.com/thorchain/upgrading-to-native-rune-a9d48e0bf40f )

    At first we are tracking daily upgrades amounts:

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    We see a big spike, but maybe a logarithmic chart can give us a better view:

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    So here we have better vision, but what about that big Spike on 14th June? for answering this question we should take a look to wrapped $rune types: Bep2 Rune and erc20 Rune. Let's look again to the chart in different way:

    Orange highlights: ERC20 $RUNE

    Blue highlights: Bep2 Rune

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    As we see binance type $rune have much higher share here, and the spike also is all about Bep2 $rune type, by checking the ThorChains social mwdia activity on 14th June we found something:

    https://twitter.com/THORChain/status/1536619934268403713

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    So it's clear the huge spike in the chart is coming from binance!

    Let's see the $USD charts now:

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    2 main spikes here also, the 14th June spike clearly is clearly from Binance and bep2 Rune but what about second one?

    Orange highlights: ERC20 $RUNE

    Blue highlights: Bep2 Rune

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    The 27th May spike is caused by high amount of erc-20 $rune upgrading, In fact this day is the record holder of erc-20 $rune upgrades!

    Let's talk about statistics and find out how many wallets are Upgrating $rune:

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    So more than 5000 unique wallets, let's find Top ones:

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    As we see Bep2 type wallet are the pioneers of the Upgrades.

    And at the end let's find out to the total amount of upgraded $Rune:

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    More than 90M $RUNE token, and if we look at the tokens price in the upgrading time:

    Conclusion

    • Bep2(BNB) Type $Rune are much higher share in upgrades than erc-20 type both in $USD value and users.

    • there are 2 spikes in the upgrades chart, one is coming from Binance exchabge and the second one is coming from erc-20 upgrading $Rune record in 1 day