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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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 should not be complacent,

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 learning more about how