RUNE has dropped about 20% in the last 24 hours, briefly falling below 0.5 USD
According to HTX market information, the native token RUNE of the cross-chain protocol THORChain has dropped about 20% in the past 24 hours, briefly falling below $0.5. During the previous Bitget hacking incident, a large amount of funds were exchanged through THORChain, leading to a surge in trading volume and fees, which the market viewed as a positive for protocol revenue, resulting in an increase in RUNE.This decline is due to heightened regulatory and security risks, with the market concerned about whether THORChain can resolve the conflict between security and regulation while maintaining its permissionless nature. On-chain data shows that after the Binance hack, hackers deposited approximately 185.1 million TRX and 3.83 million USDT through THORChain, totaling about 2,697 deposits, net exchanging around $48.3 million, and actually receiving about $42.7 million, with losses of about $5.7 million due to fees and slippage.At the same time, the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and IRS-CI jointly requested THORNode, RPC nodes, and DeFi service providers to intercept funds related to North Korean hackers. THORChain co-founder Chad Barraford stated that node operators do not have more information than the public and have not made a clear commitment to proactively block addresses. Another co-founder, JP Thor, publicly opposed cooperating with freezes, believing that the principles of decentralization and permissionlessness should be upheld.