Looking for a cross-chain swap? Most people pick the first option they find, without asking who actually controls the execution.

Most platforms doing cross-chain swaps today run on intents. You express what you want, a centralised solver decides how and whether to execute it. That gap between your request and their execution is where freezes happen, where KYC requests appear, where access disappears. Decentralised on the surface, centralised where it counts.

THORChain has no solver sitting between you and your swap. The protocol executes it directly, on-chain, according to rules that nobody can override. Native assets, self-custody, no intermediary.

Worth thinking about next time you reach for the easiest option.