RUJI Trade Expands With 18 New Pairs, Opening Fresh Routes Across Stablecoins, RUNE and Major Assets

TL;DR

• RUJI Trade added 18 new trading pairs offering direct routes between stablecoins, RUNE, and other major ecosystem assets.
• Eight markets connect USDT and USDC with assets like TRX, AVAX, and LUSD, providing more concentrated liquidity options for different providers.
• Ten direct pairs with RUNE allow the Virtualization Strategy to access and rebalance THORChain’s Base Layer pools more efficiently.

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RUJI Trade expanded its offering with 18 new trading pairs available on the Rujira platform, creating more direct routes between stablecoins, RUNE, and key assets like ETH, XRP, and wBTC. The expansion impacts three dimensions of the ecosystem: trading options for users, opportunities for liquidity providers, and the ability of the Virtualization Strategy to rebalance the pools of the THORChain Base Layer.

The new RUJI markets are divided into two groups. Eight pairs link USDT or USDC with assets like TRX, AVAX, LUSD.ETH, and USDT.TRON, offering more direct routes without the need to chain multiple operations. The remaining ten connect assets like ETH, XRP, LTC, ATOM, BNB, BCH, AVAX, DOGE, and TRX directly with RUNE.

New stablecoin markets, including USDT and USDC pairs:

• RUJI/USDT
• RUNE/USDT
• TRX/USDC
• TRX/USDT
• USDT.TRON/USDT
• USDT.TRON/USDC
• USDT.AVAX/USDC
• LUSD.ETH/USDC

These markets create more direct routes between stablecoins and other assets.

More direct routes can…

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RUJI Trade: Fewer Steps and Greater Efficiency on Every Route

Each direct pair with RUNE carries a crucial technical implication for the Virtualization Strategy, the mechanism that allows settling App Layer operations through THORChain’s Base Layer pools. A pair like ETH/BCH requires simultaneously using the ETH/RUNE and BCH/RUNE pools, which increases route complexity and slightly raises the spread. In contrast, a direct ETH/RUNE pair only requires one pool, simplifying access to available liquidity and enabling more efficient rebalancing.

This principle applies to all new pairs with RUNE. The logic is that the fewer intermediate steps an operation requires, the more directly liquidity can flow through the ecosystem.

The RUJI expansion also reinforces the role of Custom Concentrated Liquidity, or CCL, the mechanism that allows providers to concentrate their liquidity within specific price ranges. When a CCL position operates against a Virtualization Strategy order, the App Layer provides liquidity while the strategy settles the other side through THORChain’s pools, generating fee opportunities for providers and Base Layer rebalancing via arbitrage.

In addition, THORChain’s WasmArbSlipMinBps configuration was set to zero, allowing smaller price differences between both layers to be corrected automatically. All 18 pairs are now live on the platform.