Rujira Staking
Rujira Staking pays a share of application-layer revenue to stakers of RUJI and related assets on THORChain. THORChain has not passed Ketju chain-level review, so the version-1 rejected-chain dossier decides.
- THORChain receives a favorable versioned Ketju control assessment with no chain review trigger active
- Rujira launches a material, independently verifiable staking deployment on an approved chain
Watched nightly: a warning on its venues or files, or a cited document that changes, reopens the memo. The first confirmation is due 2026-12-15.
The research file
Mechanism applicability
Stakers commit RUJI and related assets inside the Rujira application layer and receive a share of the revenue that layer earns. The return is therefore a claim on one application business operating on one chain, not a validator reward for securing an independently reviewed network. Staking, accrual and unstaking all execute on THORChain.
Current observation and perimeter
The DefiLlama protocol API read on 2026-09-15 classified Rujira Staking under Farm and reported approximately $18.6M on a THORChain-only perimeter, listed on 2026-08-11 with no recorded audit. The yield survey the same day observed three pools, all on THORChain. This is the largest of the two Rujira records and remains entirely inside the same unreviewed perimeter.
Control and exit applicability
THORChain consensus, finality and emergency controls sit beneath every staking state transition, and no versioned Ketju control assessment exists for that chain. Revenue-share staking additionally exposes the holder to the fortunes of the application layer and to whoever sets the distribution parameters, and any unbonding period the protocol imposes is an exit constraint on top of the chain dependency.
Class rule
The rejected chain class is outside the approved structures, so every protocol in it is not approved until the rule changes. The rule is about the structure, not an adverse finding about this protocol, and it is not a client instruction. The events that would reopen it are listed with the memo.
Sources
The claims above trace to these. Where a number could not be independently verified, the thesis says so.
- Rujira · primary · accessed 2026-09-15
Supports: protocol identity, THORChain application layer, staking, revenue share - DefiLlama — Rujira Staking record · secondary · accessed 2026-09-15
Supports: current TVL, THORChain perimeter, Farm category, listing date, no recorded audit
Inherited controls
The research above describes the protocol layer. Every position also inherits the asset it holds and the chain it settles on. The layer with the most administrative power sets the position’s effective control; that describes control, not quality or suitability.
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