Simon Harman

Something Brand New - Chainflip To Add Native BTC Lending & Liquidity Loans

Chainflip is a cross-chain decentralised exchange that has processed billions in swap volume across major asset pairs, including native BTC, ETH, SOL, USDC, and USDT. It uses a TSS/MPC based vault system operated by a permissionless 100 of 150 proof-of-stake validator network to securely manage funds across the chains

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Proposal 005 - Token Redesign (FLIP 2.0)

Explore the proposed FLIP token redesign aimed at improving staking incentives, utility, and long-term protocol sustainability.

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Frontend Fees and the Crosschain Association

Dear FLIPers, Today, we announce a change in the way the swap.chainflip.io and all frontend services associated with the core chainflip.io swapping experience will be operated. We have seen the support from third party integrators expand dramatically in the last few months, with Rango and Swapkit making

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Ideas to Reform the Chainflip Validator Network

Nearly 18 months into operation, the Chainflip Simultaneous Single Round Open Dutch Auction system needs review. While it has been reasonably successful in producing a stable set of Validators, the distribution of economic security among them has been far less efficient than expected. The current design The design of the

v1.9. The Next Wave of Improvements

Hey folks, wanted to provide some insight into the next wave of upcoming features and delve into why we think they’re great for Chainflip. Our typical weekly volume has nearly doubled in the last 2 months alone, even as the market crashed, and we experienced significant downtime during the

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Chainflip’s North Star Metric - An Update

Later last year I wrote a post on how we get to $100m volume days and what that means for Chainflip. It’s now 2025 and it’s time to see how we’re progressing on that front. The markets we deal in do tens of billions in volume per

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A Proposal: Rethinking Boost

Too much idle BTC in Boost? This post explores a fee split proposal to improve economic security while keeping yields attractive.

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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

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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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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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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.

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FLIP Token Generation Event

The mainnet has been bootstrapped. It’s sitting on idle right now, with the Genesis validators already being onboarded, waiting for the FLIP to drop. Finally, after years of development, months of negotiations, and weeks of preparation, we are now flying towards the Token Genesis Event. The FLIP TGE will

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Mainnet Pre-Launch Validator Onboarding

As a minor update to our previous article on Mainnet Launch plans, we have decided to make the TGE event smoother by making sure that confirmed mainnet operators have an opportunity to spin up their Validators while the mainnet is in pre-TGE standby mode. Chainflip Labs is offering mainnet-ready operators

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Chainflip Mainnet Preparation

Dear Flippers, The time has finally come to announce more mainnet release plans. For those working on the Perseverance Testnet, this may be useful information to assess the major differences and launch parameters you can expect for the mainnet. For everyone else looking for the TGE, read on. Upfront: TGE

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Announcing up to $1M worth of FLIP in Liquidity Provision Incentives

Chainflip commits up to $1M in FLIP to support LPs, ensuring rewards from day one through a unique liquidity bootstrapping program.

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9 reasons that make Chainflip Validators so attractive

Discover why Chainflip Validators stand out with high rewards, low overhead, and real utility for node operators seeking long-term value.

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Token Sale Recap

NOTE: Edited with final numbers Finally, after almost 6 weeks, the Chainflip Coinlist sale is complete. We hope that those who wished to participate were able to do so and got the amount that they wanted. Now it’s all about delivering the mainnet and pushing out what we set

Perseverance 0.9 Release

Ladies and Gentlemen, On the eve of the token sale we bring you another major network release. 0.9 is liklely the last major release we do before migrating to mainnet. As you've seen with demo.chainflp.io running over 100,000 swaps on our internal network over

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The Chainflip Swapping Demo Launch

After 3 long, hard years, we finally present a public demo of the Chainflip Swapping Experience. Within just 18 hours of launching it, we’ve had well over 6000 native cross-chain swaps go through already, and the feedback that we’ve heard from the community has been amazing. As a

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Chainflip’s Launch: Auctions, Swapping, and TGE

A deep dive into Chainflip’s mainnet launch, validator auction dynamics, and why early participation could offer massive upside.

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Community Update 7 - June 2023

Welcome my dear friends, supporters, and active community members of Chainflip to the 7th(?) instalment of the Chainflip Community Update. This is the final pre-launch community update you’ll hear from me. From here on out, it’s nothing but announcements. It’s hard to believe that it’s been