Research corpus MarketsBLC-STUDY-0041

THORChain: a decentralised liquidity protocol

THORChain's design for continuous liquidity pools that cross native chains. Nodes bond capital, observe external chains, and sign outbound transactions as a threshold set. It is a liquidity network, not a wrapped-asset bridge run by a single custodian.

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Authors: The THORChain team
Date: 2020
Publisher: The THORChain team
Version: Source cited by the 2020 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0041
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — THORChain white papers
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The THORChain team (2020). THORChain: a decentralised liquidity protocol. The THORChain team. https://github.com/thorchain/Resources/tree/master/Whitepapers

BibTeX

@techreport{thorchain2020,
  title = {THORChain: a decentralised liquidity protocol},
  author = {The THORChain team},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {The THORChain team},
  url = {https://github.com/thorchain/Resources/tree/master/Whitepapers},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/thorchain}
}

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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