THORChain began in 2018 as a hackathon project and went live as a multi-chain network in 2021, built around a single idea: that you should be able to swap native Bitcoin for native Ethereum without a centralized exchange, a wrapped token or a bridge you have to trust. It does that with liquidity pools in which every asset is paired against its own token, RUNE, and a rotating set of anonymous node operators who hold the vaults under a threshold-signature scheme. By 2026 it supports a dozen or so chains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Base, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Cosmos, XRP Ledger and TRON, with Solana reintegrated in March 2026 and Monero added in May 2026.
You do not visit THORChain; you use it through a wallet or interface that speaks to it, such as THORSwap, and the swap arrives in a wallet you control on the other chain. There is no account, no KYC, no company, and no support desk. That design is why it has become the largest venue for trading Bitcoin without an intermediary, and it is also why, when something breaks, the only recourse is a Discord channel and a node vote. THORChain has broken more than once: two exploits in July 2021 that cost around $8 million each, a lending and savers freeze in January 2025 amid roughly $200 million in liabilities, and a $10.7 million exploit on May 15, 2026 that halted all trading for five weeks.
Anytime Capital is a different kind of thing altogether. It is a U.S. money services business that serves customers worldwide, with a storefront at 2549 Piedmont Road NE in Atlanta, an office in Miami, a phone number that reaches a person, and rails that run from Apple Pay and cards to cash and same-day wire. It does not swap across chains. It sells you the coin for dollars, delivers it to a non-custodial wallet, and gives you a bank account and debit card to cash out into. For a THORChain user, that is the on-ramp; for most buyers, it is the whole trip.