THORChain v3.20 launches Tuesday with Zcash and Monero activation, resuming trading on BNB, Base, and Solana chains.
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THORChain is launching version 3.20 on Tuesday, which will enable native swaps for Zcash and Monero while restoring trading functionality across BNB, Base, and Solana blockchains. The upgrade represents a step forward in expanding privacy coin integration within the cross-chain liquidity protocol.
The activation of Monero and Zcash swaps builds on THORChain's broader effort to support privacy-focused assets. Monero uses ring signatures, stealth addresses, and Ring Confidential Transactions to obscure sender, receiver, and transaction amounts at the protocol level, making all transactions fungible by default. The resumption of trading on major blockchain networks addresses liquidity constraints the protocol has faced in recent periods.
Details remain limited on the specific technical implementation of the v3.20 deployment, the scope of privacy coin pairs being enabled, and whether the upgrade will affect trading fees or other protocol parameters. The impact on volume and user adoption following the Tuesday launch is not yet quantifiable.