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Bitcoin Dominance Continues to Grow – But Almost None of It Is On-Chain

TL;DR: Bitcoin’s market dominance is rising, fuelled by institutional inflows and its role as a store of value. Yet, most BTC trades remain off-chain on centralised exchanges, limiting its decentralised potential. Chainflip, Maya Protocol, and Thorchain are pioneering on-chain BTC swaps, offering truly decentralised trading alternatives. Together, we’

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Boost Bitcoin with Chainflip: High-Yield Opportunities for Liquidity Providers

Boosted swaps by Chainflip allow users to Boost Bitcoin swaps with similar speed and efficiency found in centralised exchanges. Typically, swapping native Bitcoin can be slow, with block times taking up to 40 minutes for confirmations. However, with Chainflip Boost, this process becomes much faster, enabling users to complete swaps

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How DCA Swaps Work on Chainflip

Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) swaps represent a new pricing strategy from Chainflip, designed to reduce the risks associated with market volatility by spreading a large swap over several smaller transactions. This automated process allows users to swap at significantly better pricing. Lets explore two scenarios on how DCA works in

DCA — Excellent Pricing, Emphasis On Excellent

What to Expect: Better Pricing, Maximum Payout Our Dollar-Cost-Average (DCA) routes are designed to maximise payout, where users get more value for their swap.  How It Works: Send-and-Forget Simplicity You don’t need to toggle DCA on and off or adjust settings manually. We’ve abstracted the complexities of DCA

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Chainflip Q3 Recap

The time has come to take a closer look at Chainflip’s progress over the past quarter. From exciting new product and protocol upgrades to fresh faces in the community, and even a few industry firsts—there’s a lot to dive into! Protocol Performance In Q3, Chainflip facilitated $206.

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Solana Comes to Chainflip Mainnet: A New Era of Native Cross-Chain Swaps

We’re thrilled to introduce Solana as the latest chain integrated into Chainflip! This is more than just another integration—it’s a breakthrough moment. Chainflip is now the first-ever DEX to offer native on-chain Bitcoin swaps to Solana, along with support for Ethereum, Polkadot, and Arbitrum. After months of

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$FLIP Fortnightly Wrap #2 - Summary

Gm We've wrapped up another two weeks at Chainflip Labs HQ, and we’re excited to share all the progress we've made. If you want to catch up on the details, you can listen to the full discussion via the link below. Or, for an easy-to-digest

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Learn How To Boost Your Bitcoin Swaps

Boosted swaps by Chainflip are a brand new initiative to the industry, and aims to bring our product in line with the speed and flow of centralised exchanges. Swapping to and from native Bitcoin is painstakingly slow, with block times taking upwards to 40 minutes to finalise sometimes! As we

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Manifesto: The Path to $100m Daily Volume on Chainflip

Consider this blog post a bit of a strategy update. We’re six months into having a live protocol, and even less with it de-restricted and truly in the wild. We always knew that when we launched the protocol, we would quickly figure out what works and what doesn'

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Liquidity Incentive Program - May Summary

GM Flippers, We have reached the end of May, which also means it's time to conclude this month's liquidity results and rewards, and announce the incentive available for June. General Summary In the first month of the program, we did not see substantial increases in liquidity

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Enacting an Emissions Cut for FLIP

In this post we announce a change to the FLIP emissions budget to account for months of real data on the economics of the system in the wild. I have spoken with a range of Stakeholders and believe this is the correct decision under the optimistic governance framework of Chainflip.

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Introducing: Chainflip Boosted Swaps

We’re working on a range of features and improvements on the path to Chainflip achieving $100m in daily volumes - which is our goal for this year. Last week in Dubai, I dropped some white-hot alpha on-stage during a DeFi panel with regards to one of these features. Now

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Chainflip Protocol Liquidity Incentive Program Rollout

Back before launch, we announced a program to provide a minimum level of incentives to motivate LPs to set up systems to compete for volume on Chainflip. Unlike most liquidity incentive programs, this was designed to promote competitive quoting from LPs for user swaps, even in low-volume environments. As it

Chainflip Development Update — April 15th 2024

Dear readers of the Chainflip Dev Update Progress With the release of version 1.3, we added support for USDT as an additional asset. This makes it much easier to integrate with exchanges that prefer USDT over our default choice of USDC. The decision to add USDT was made on

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Chainflip Development Update — March 21st 2024

Dear readers of the Chainflip Dev Update, On Monday the 11th we released the first full version of Chainflip, swap sizes are only limited by the available liquidity. To make that work, we introduced a price impact protection system to prevent users from getting bad prices in low-liquidity situations. We

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Chainflip Development Update — March 4th 2024

Dear readers of the dev update, None other than the “White House” has recently published a letter asking developers to use memory-safe programming languages. Although we can already tick that box at Chainflip, I’m not really sure if I would prefer a JavaScript rewrite of Bitcoin over the original

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Community Update 8 - February 2024

Hello again folks! Last time I wrote one of these was back in June 2023 announcing the launch of everything. With the sheer number of announcements and releases over the last few months, I didn’t think it necessary to write another one of these, but Shaun told me to,

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Partnership Announcement: THORWallet to integrate Chainflip for their cross chain swaps

We're excited to share the news of a strategic partnership between THORWallet and Chainflip, aimed at integrating Chainflip's backend to enhance the cross-chain swap capabilities within THORWallet. This collaboration is set to provide users with more efficient and competitive swap rates, particularly for major assets like

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Chainflip Development Update — February 8th 2024

Dear readers of the dev update, We keep raising the swapping limits in regular intervals. Currently they are set around $50k. The Liquidity Providers are also increasing their positions to accommodate for these new swap sizes. Progress We are working on the integration of more external blockchains that will both

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El Dorado Elevates Cross-Chain Swaps, Integrating Chainflip for Enhanced Efficiency

El Dorado is on the brink of a significant transformation. The planned integration with Chainflip aims to boost its position to the forefront of cross-chain swap efficiency. This strategic partnership is poised to equip El Dorado with advanced transaction routing capabilities for native digital assets, establishing it as a formidable

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Houdini Swap and Chainflip Unite to Optimise Native Bitcoin Swaps

We are thrilled to announce a dynamic partnership and integration with Chainflip as one of the first launch partners, heralding a new era in the DEX aggregation space. This collaboration is set to equip Houdini Swap with some of the most competitive transaction routing for native assets on the market.

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Chainflip Development Update — January 29th 2024

Chainflip Development Update — January 26th 2024 Dear readers of the Chainflip Development Update, The swapping activity on our mainnet app is picking up, and the volume chart is pointing straight into the sky. To keep this momentum going, we will be adding more and more features. Progress We launched our

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Introducing: Chainflip Community Proposals

Dear Flippers, As we continue with live testing in the swapping pre-release and enjoy seeing things going very smoothly so far, I’ve had a bit of time and space to set up a basic but important system for involving the community in governance. There is an existing token weighted

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Chainflip Development Update — January 15th 2024

Dear readers of the Chainflip Development Update, Over the recent holidays, the team of Chainflippers has been following in the footsteps of Santa’s elves and was busy working to get a gift out to all of you. In the week leading up to Christmas we pulled it all together

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Swapping Pre Release

Dear Flippers, We are very pleased to announce the rollout plan for the swapping capabilities of the Chainflip mainnet. Beginning in the coming hours, we will be commencing a pre-release of swapping, which is a major step in the network's history. This pre-release is not the full product.