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Introducing: Chainflip Boosted Swaps

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

Chainflip Protocol Liquidity Incentive Program Rollout

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

Community Update 8 - February 2024

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,

Introducing: Chainflip Community Proposals

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

Swapping Pre Release

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. It is

FLIP Token Generation Event

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

Mainnet Pre-Launch Validator Onboarding

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

Chainflip Mainnet Preparation

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

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

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

To incentivise a minimum level of incentives for Liquidity Providers to earn fees and compete for user flow, we have designed the Chainflip Protocol Liquidity Bootstrapping Program. Unlike most liquidity incentive programs, this one is designed to promote competitive quoting from LPs for user swaps, even in low-volume environments. This

9 reasons that make Chainflip Validators so attractive

9 reasons that make Chainflip Validators so attractive

With mainnet almost here, I thought writing my very first listicle would be a bit of fun. In the opening weeks of Chainflip’s life, the Validator auctions will take centre stage. Lots of people in the broader Chainflip community may not know or understand what makes Chainflip Validators such

Token Sale Recap

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

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 the last

The Chainflip Swapping Demo Launch

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

Chainflip’s Launch: Auctions, Swapping, and TGE

Chainflip’s Launch: Auctions, Swapping, and TGE

Key Points DISCLAIMER: This article is intended as an overview of what we have modelled to happen in the Chainflip ecosystem over the next 6 months based on comparable projects and the research we have conducted. It is in no way financial advice, and should not be interpreted as such.

Community Update 7 - June 2023

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

Chainflip's Testnet Perseverance 0.8 Release

Chainflip's Testnet Perseverance 0.8 Release

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am incredibly proud to announce the launch of Perseverance 0.8. Included in this upgrade are the core features that make Chainflip whole. In this release, we have: * The JIT AMM fully integrated * Native Bitcoin Support (Bitcoin Testnet)(tBTC) * Native Polkadot Support (Perseverance Polkadot Testnet)(pDOT)

Chainflip Development Update — Apr 28th 2023

Chainflip Development Update — Apr 28th 2023

My Dear Chainflippers, Oh how far we have come together. I’m back again while Martin is out, and this week I thought I’d take you behind the curtain a little. April has been a month with admittedly limited visible progress. Perseverance 0.7 has been up for weeks

Smooth Operators - Chainflip's Advanced Validator Operator Scheme

Smooth Operators - Chainflip's Advanced Validator Operator Scheme

Gm Flip community. Today we are announcing the launch of a new program for current node operators to help us speed up the pace of development and have a more successful launch. We want to thank everyone that has been involved in the Perseverance Testnet up to this point, and

Chainflip Development Update — Mar 17th 2023

Chainflip Development Update — Mar 17th 2023

Swapping is coming to the testnet! Read more about the upgrade in the 47th edition of the Developer Update!

Chainflip will beat all other AMMs on price. Here's how.

Chainflip will beat all other AMMs on price. Here's how.

The dominance of centralised exchanges In a sea of emerging and maturing DeFi products, it might seem like innovation on the market design front has slowed. That is wrong. On-chain markets have yet to reach the competitiveness of the centralised exchanges. You still can’t swap 5 native BTC for

Chainflip Development Update — Mar 3rd 2023

Chainflip Development Update — Mar 3rd 2023

Dear reader, Due to the fact that he and the rest of the devs are cramming hard for a cryptography audit kicking off on Monday, at the request of our beloved CTO, Dr. Martin “Goldfinger” Rieke, you’re stuck with me, DJ Prof. Simon “Jaywalk” Harman, What is a DJ

Chainflip Development Update — Jan 6th 2023

Chainflip Development Update — Jan 6th 2023

Dear god. When did that happen? The year seems to have ticked over to the year of our lord, 2023, and I for one was somewhat unprepared to be reminded that we are nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and we still don’t have nuclear

'22 is The Year From Hell. Here's What '23 Will Bring.

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'22 is The Year From Hell. Here's What '23 Will Bring.

I originally wrote this article for a guest piece in an upcoming publication, but thought you might enjoy some riveting speculation over the weekend now that Perseverance is live. There’s a discussion thread about 2023 in the discord, so come join in the fun! Get your crystal balls and

Chainflip Community Update #6

Chainflip Community Update #6

Hello Friends! What a time the world is having! Between war, inflation, destabilising global economic shenanigans, and a general sense of disruption and chaos in the air, the last 4 months or so have brought us a rather different situation in the Web3 world compared to what we’ve experienced

Chainflip Development Update — Sep 23rd 2022

Chainflip Development Update — Sep 23rd 2022

Greetings from the other side. After a manic Berlin Blockchain Week, the thankless but essential task of producing the Chainflip Developer Update falls upon me for the first time. It’s been nearly 18 months since we started doing these, and I have managed to dodge the responsibility to date,