Martin Rieke

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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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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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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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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Chainflip Development Update — December 5th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev update, The city is dark and covered in snow. Supermarkets are blasting Christmas songs and all of Berlin is looking forward to some quiet holidays. All of Berlin? Of course not… A not so tiny office full of Chainflippers is in overdrive mode to launch

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Chainflip Development Update — November 13th 2023

Dear readers of the dev update, We are all hard at work as we prepare for our opening move. Launching the Chainflip state chain! Progress We have finished the remaining tickets that were necessary for the launch of our mainnet. This allowed us to change to the magic version number

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Chainflip Development Update — October 20th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev Update, We are releasing Perseverance 0.10! As we speak, validators are updating their Chainflip Engine in preparation for the runtime update. Because we made some breaking changes, this update is more complicated than usual, but there is a detailed documentation available. More on that

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Chainflip Development Update — October 9th 2023

Dear readers of the Chainflip Development Update, We are getting closer and closer to the launch date. Like a runner towards the end of a marathon, that means we have to ignore the urge to rest and keep going. Of course the race is not over once we are live,

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Chainflip Development Update — September 21st 2023

Dear readers of the Development Blog, The past two weeks went by so quickly and it’s already time for another dev update. We are pretty much feature complete for the mainnet release and it’s getting closer and closer. Progress Last Friday we enabled swapping on Perseverance! This was

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Chainflip Development Update — September 11th 2023

Dear readers of the Chainflip Dev update, We did it! We released Perseverance 0.9. This is expected to be the last major testnet release before the mainnet. Still, there will be some smaller updates (0.9.1 is on its way) if we feel that they are necessary. Progress

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Chainflip Development Update — August 28th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev Update, What an exciting week this was! On Monday we launched our swapping demo to the public and held our breath as the swaps started to stream in. Of course, we were a bit nervous, but everything worked just fine and by Tuesday we had

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Chainflip Development Update — August 10th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev update, You probably all want to know the outcome of Ramiz’ office dinner. Let me tell you, it was amazing. Spicy, succulent, rich goodness! Just like the code he writes. Progress The witnessing refactor has been completed! Our testing shows that the new system behaves

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Chainflip Development Update — July 27th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev-Update, It’s been some time since the last dev update. When the time came for the next post, I was lying in bed with a fever, unable to put out anything helpful or funny. Luckily, my recovery was quick. Since then, many things happened and

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Chainflip Development Update — May 26th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev update, Today we have released version 0.8 of our Sisyphus test network. This means that the corresponding Perseverance release will happen soon afterwards. This is a big milestone, because it will allow participants to finally try their hand at swapping and liquidity provision. Internally,

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Chainflip Development Update — May 12th 2023

Dear readers of the DevUpdate, In this post I want to tell you a bit more about some of the process changes we have implemented at chainflip. As mentioned in the last update, we have moved over to using the Linear app for managing our tasks and projects. We have

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Chainflip Development Update — Apr 14th 2023

Dear readers of the Development Update, how does one know that what you’re doing is correct? If your lawyer or your doctor asks themselves this question, that might cause you to worry about you choosing them for the task. But these professions have been around for quite some time

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Chainflip Development Update — Mar 31st 2023

Hello, dear readers of the dev update! Progress First, I have to thank Simon for keeping the dev update going while I was busy with various important and not so important things. As you might have noticed, we released version 0.7 of the Perseverance testnet and that kept us

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Chainflip Development Update — Feb 17th 2023

Dear reader, Welcome to another dev update coming from sunny South Africa. If you played Zelda, you know that it’s dangerous to go alone. Luckily, last week we announced a partnership with Axelar and Squid which will allow us to leverage their capabilities and provide access to even more

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Chainflip Development Update — Feb 3rd 2023

Dear Readers of the "Dev Update", These are times of rapid growth. As you might or might not have noticed, the Perseverance Testnet has recently reached 1 Million Blocks and the number of Blog posts I've authored has pretty much doubled since last time! But we

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Chainflip Development Update — Jan 19th 2023

On Wednesday, Simon asked me whether I felt ready to take over the task of writing the "Dev Update". Given that I had just joined Chainflip as the new CTO, and you - dear reader of the "Dev Update" - also seem to be interested in