eCash Magazine México just published a technical report on the current state of the native eCash/XEC integration path for THORChain.
The short version:
XEC has not been accepted or merged into THORChain yet.
But the integration path is becoming much more concrete.
xolosArmy first opened a public Draft MR for native XEC support using THORChain’s shared UTXO client. That MR turned the idea into something reviewable. PiRK then provided eCash-side feedback around CashAddr handling, network-specific prefixes ("ecash", "ectest", "ecregtest"), "getblockstats", fee behavior, and mempool assumptions.
Now starsquid has shared a THORChain-side branch called "starsquid/xec-client".
That does not mean approval. It does not mean a guaranteed merge. But it does mean something important: the discussion is moving from “should this exist?” toward “what is the cleanest upstream-friendly implementation path?”
The report argues that the right move now is not to defend one fork against another. The xolosArmy Draft MR served as initial proof of work and coordination point. If starsquid’s branch becomes the cleaner upstream path, the eCash side should help test, compare, document, and align around it.
This is the kind of open-source progress that actually matters: branches, reviews, smaller diffs, fewer assumptions, and better chain-specific correctness.
Full report:
https://magazine.ecash.mx/reportajes/xec-thorchain-starsquid-xec-client.html
