THORChain: Native DeFi Suite offers native-asset swaps, lending, and perps - 17 Aug 2026

THORChain and Rujira Network now offer swaps, lending, perpetuals, and other DeFi products using native assets in the Native DeFi Suite. Fees from these products partly go to RUNE stakers, linking the announced product offering to the THORChain ecosystem.The broader native-asset suite expands the stated product scope beyond swaps to lending and perpetuals, giving users more ways to use native assets within the same offering. Its fee-sharing structure gives RUNE a direct economic connection to product activity, since part of fees is directed to stakers. Availability alone does not show that users have adopted the products or that the fee link has produced measurable effects.This is one of the reasons 's fundamentals still look strong.Most Bitcoin sits outside DeFi. It's the largest asset in crypto and there still aren't many ways to put it to work without wrapping it or handing it to a custodian. So it stays idle.THORChain, together…