THORChain Weekly Live Rujira 0 to 1 AppLayer on THORChain Podcast #184
Mar 28, 2026
Pragmatic Monkey (PM), product and technical lead for Rujira, gives concise engineering updates and roadmap notes. They cover CCL rollout, FIN releases, virtualization strategies, and backtester results. Short segments dive into UI/analytics priorities, AI agent integration, arbitrage mechanics, and fee experiments.
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Using Masari To Correct Public Revenue Data
- Kenton demoed Masari's analytics showing ThorChain ranking and pushed them to fix data errors like Nier's affiliate fee inclusion.
- He used Masari to expose inaccuracies and to help ThorChain appear to investors.
Building A Minute-Level Backtester To Validate CCL
- PM built a CCL backtester as a pet project to validate assumptions; it uses minute-level order-book archives to simulate strategy performance.
- The backtester found conservative BTC/USDC ranges can yield ~20%+ APR from volatility.
App Layer Tools Democratize Hedge Fund Style Returns
- Rujira aims to democratize access to hedge-fund-like returns by offering configurable concentrated liquidity strategies and analytics that show realized and unrealized performance.
- PM emphasizes built-in metrics (APR, money multiple, realized yield) to help users treat DeFi investing like a business.