THORChain pushes native Monero swaps for v3.18 and drafts dynamic fees to reclaim volume lost to aggregators

THORChain's v3.18, cutting in ~1 month, will ship native Monero swaps via single-vault FROST TSS — making it the only XMR DEX listing on CoinGecko. A draft dynamic fee model (MR #4752) adjusts rates per THORName and trading pair to reclaim volume like the wallet doing $307M/month that currently routes just ~1% through THORChain at 10bp flat versus 2-3bp at aggregators. Devs are also debating opt-in chain clients and whether to capture $300K-$3M monthly in arbitrage via a protocol-owned bot using THORChain's proven 18-exchange price oracle.

TLDR by @Benthic

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