Unstoppable: The Best Privacy Wallet – THORChain Mobile Interface

Unstoppable's IBeK joined Kenton and Denny to propose a peer-to-peer Android APK for THORChain, walk through the wallet's Monero-first roadmap, and break down conference user-acquisition math.

@THORChain x @unstoppablebyhs Space ft. IBeK, @KentonC137 & @patriotsounds | April 25, 2026

By @Raynalytics

TL;DR

A native Android APK for THORChain is on the table. Memoless-only, peer-to-peer distributable, and roughly two weeks of work.
Unstoppable Wallet has spent the last six months going deep on Monero and Zcash, and now sits in the top three privacy-focused multi-coin wallets.
The Unstoppable team is open-sourcing a mobile library to make $RUNE integration trivial for other wallets.
Their swap aggregator now scores providers on freeze risk and privacy risk, the first wallet to surface this in the UI.
Conference marketing math is taking shape: a new THORChain user is worth $50 to $100 in lifetime fees, an STO whale is worth $250.

Introduction

This week's Saturday Space pulled in IBeK from @unstoppablebyhs, the team behind the THORChain frontend (swap.thorchain.org). What started as a quarterly check-in turned into a working session on what may be the most important distribution unlock for THORChain since the website itself: a native mobile app for Android that anyone can share peer-to-peer.

Along the way, IBeK walked through what Unstoppable has been building over the last six months, why they're now one of the top Monero wallets in the world, and how they're approaching swap transparency in a way no other wallet currently does.

1. Inside Unstoppable Wallet

Unstoppable is a self-custody, privacy-focused multi-coin wallet built natively on iOS and Android. The team's philosophy is slower, deeper engineering. They build to a standard where they don't have to revisit the same code for years, and they prefer building libraries themselves over importing dependencies they can't fully audit.

The last six months have been @monero and @Zcash heavy. IBeK estimates Unstoppable is now in the top three Monero wallets, alongside @cakewallet and @EdgeWallet. Forks of their Monero implementation are starting to appear in other wallets, which IBeK welcomes as a two-way contribution loop.

"If you care about open source, if you care about privacy, if you care about sovereignty, then Unstoppable is the wallet of choice."

The team also confirmed they hold $RUNE on the company balance sheet and never swap it. Native $RUNE and $TCY support inside the wallet is in the pipeline, with the priority right now being the swap engine they're using to "dethrone @SwapKitPowered".

2. The STO Partnership

IBeK and Kenton meet weekly to push the THORChain frontend (swap.thorchain.org) interface forward. Both were complimentary of how the working relationship has played out: opinionated engineering on one side, demanding product feedback on the other, and a willingness from both to push back when something doesn't make sense.

The site has been live and stable for a while now and is often leading the affiliate volume rankings even before any meaningful marketing push. Bug fixes have been the recent focus, and there's now a "report a bug" link directly on the site that accepts screenshots and video. Users are encouraged to re-submit if a bug isn't fixed within a week or two, since fixes don't always carry across to every device.

3. THORChain Goes Mobile: The APK Distribution Plan

This is the headline. IBeK proposed a native Android APK that does one thing: memoless swaps on THORChain.

Memoless means the user doesn't connect a wallet. They just send crypto to a generated address and the trade executes based on the encoded amount. No seed phrase, no new wallet to manage, no app store dependency.

The APK can be shared peer-to-peer over messengers, email, or any other channel. Telegram used the same playbook to stay accessible in regions where its app store distribution was blocked. For THORChain, the implications are bigger than circumvention. It's distribution.

"Bitcoin is the only real DEX that we know of, with size and liquidity. And our wallet protects the user. Now we want to make sure people can use it from anywhere, on any phone, without asking permission."

Build cost is roughly two weeks. One week to fork and strip the existing Unstoppable codebase down to a memoless interface, one week to test. The bigger question is whether this should ship now or wait until STO bug fixes and feature rollouts settle. Kenton's lean is to ship it. The downside risk is two weeks of engineering. The upside is a standalone product to put in front of attendees at every conference THORChain shows up to.

A naming discussion broke out in real time. Inside the app store it gets called THORChain. The shorthand for the product itself is open, with MTC ("Mobile THORChain") floated as a working candidate.

"It also gives you a way out in case someone blocks the domain. One tweet to share the APK and everyone in the community can keep swapping."

4. Lowering the Bar for Wallet Integration

IBeK and Kenton spent time on a related but distinct problem: how does THORChain get $RUNE supported in more wallets natively?

Web-based wallets have it relatively easy. Mature JavaScript libraries exist and integration runs to a week or two of work. Native mobile wallets, particularly those built on Swift or Kotlin, have to either build their own implementation or rely on libraries that may not exist or may not be trustworthy.

IBeK offered to release Unstoppable's mobile $RUNE library as open source. Their existing Bitcoin library has thousands of stars on GitHub and is used widely across the ecosystem. A mobile $RUNE library could do the same job: give wallet teams a credible, audited starting point so the integration becomes a UI exercise rather than a from-scratch build.

This dovetails with @CBarraford's recent push to make protocol integration as simple as possible. The barrier to listing $RUNE shouldn't be cryptographic competence. It should be product willingness.

5. Aggregator Transparency: Scoring the Swap

Unstoppable's swap aggregator does something no other wallet currently does. It surfaces freeze risk and privacy risk to the user before they execute.

Most wallets present swap routes as a closed box. Even when the wallet itself is open source, the swap library it imports often runs server-side logic the user never sees. That logic includes IP-based geofencing, jurisdictional blocks, and fund freezes for users from sanctioned regions, even when the swap is described as decentralized.

"People are unaware their swaps can get frozen, that their data is being shared with a third party, that their IP and device fingerprint are being collected. Most wallets right now are closed boxes."

For users who can prove the source of their funds, the best price wins. For users who acquired their crypto through cash, peer-to-peer, or any path that doesn't generate a paper trail, knowing the freeze probability before the trade matters more than ten basis points of price improvement.

This is the kind of feature that gets quietly more important the more aggressive centralized exchanges become about KYC enforcement.

6. Conference Marketing Math

Kenton has been working with @Raynalytics to put numbers on THORChain user acquisition, and the early modeling is sharp.

The average THORChain user is worth $50 to $100 in lifetime fees. On STO specifically, where the average trade size is around $100,000, a whale user is worth roughly $250 in the trailing six months alone.

That changes how to think about conference giveaways. If a $25 incentive at a Bitcoin Vegas booth converts a new user, the math works. If $100 reaches a whale at a smaller, more intimate conference like Litecoin or Dash, the math works even harder. The proposal that emerged: walk around with two phones and let people experience a memoless THORChain swap end-to-end, with a small subsidized amount, on assets they actually care about.

"If you give someone a free pen, subconsciously they want to settle the debt. The way to settle it in our world is to become a customer. Twenty-five dollars to acquire a user worth a hundred? That's a deal we run all day."

The mobile APK plays directly into this. A swap interface that lives on the attendee's phone, that they can take home, is a far better artifact than a flyer.

7. Scam Site Takedown

Earlier this week, a scam clone of THORChain frontend was active under a similar URL. Kenton, with help from IBeK, walked through the process of getting it taken down. Registrar abuse forms, Cloudflare reports, the web host, the DNS provider, plus phishing reports to Google's Chrome Safe Browsing and chain abuse aggregators. Five different reporting channels, all hit.

The site is now down.

"If you ever see a site like this, let me know. At minimum let the community know. We can use a thorchain.org email when filing reports, and platforms take it more seriously."

Two practical notes for users: always verify the URL is swap.thorchain.org, and if a wallet connection prompt looks unfamiliar, exit before signing anything.

8. KYC, Wrench Attacks, and the Case for Privacy

The Space closed on a heavier topic. Over 40 reported physical attacks on crypto holders so far in 2026, a meaningful share of them traceable to leaked KYC data. France in particular has seen a wave of kidnappings.

Kenton shared a personal story from two nights ago: a close friend received a phone call from someone claiming to be Ledger support, complete with an accurate name, device model, and a roughly correct estimate of the friend's $BTC balance. The caller pressured him for his seed phrase. He called Kenton first. The funds are safe.

"KYC means kill your customer. It is not a meme. It is not a hollow slogan. It is quite real."

This is why native Monero on THORChain matters beyond the swap volume it will unlock. A user with funds parked at an address tied to their identity through KYC is a target. A user who can move into $XMR and obfuscate the balance is not.

@TheDesertLynx joined briefly to reinforce the point: the recent stress events in the broader privacy ecosystem demonstrated that THORChain is one of the few neutral, permissionless venues that didn't pause swaps when things got uncomfortable. That ethos lines up cleanly with the Monero community's values.

"Free, permissionless, neutral infrastructure is the only way to emancipate people from the current fiat fiscal hell. Less than 2% of funds through THORChain are illicit. The vast majority of users are good, normal, decent human beings."

What to Watch

Mobile THORChain APK: memoless-only Android app, roughly two weeks to ship once prioritized. The most important distribution unlock since swap.thorchain.org went live.
$RUNE mobile library: Unstoppable plans to open source their mobile $RUNE implementation, lowering the integration cost for other native wallets.
Native Monero on THORChain: front-end and aggregator wallets are already lined up to support $XMR swaps from day one.
Native $RUNE and $TCY in Unstoppable: in the pipeline, prioritized after the swap engine work wraps.
BTC Las Vegas: the next conference test for the user-acquisition math. Field testing the memoless flow in person is a stated goal.
Next Saturday: Bior Vault from @BiorLabs. The following Saturday: Joel from @TheDesertLynx.