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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,

Chainflip Community Update #5

Chainflip Community Update #5

Chainflippers: it’s been a while. The aim was to do these community updates quarterly, but there is a completely new white paper coming out shortly, and brand new Chainflip documentation incorporating lots of new design changes, which have both been taking up my writing time. More importantly, with Soundcheck

Chainflip Labs Confirms New $10m Investment From Veteran Crypto VCs

Chainflip Labs Confirms New $10m Investment From Veteran Crypto VCs

Hey Flippers, I’m very happy to confirm that Chainflip Labs has recently closed a $10m private equity investment deal with 3 veteran crypto venture capital firms, Framework Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Pantera Capital. This means that Chainflip’s operational funding for the medium-term has been locked-in, and sets us

Presenting: Just In Time (JIT) - A Novel AMM Protocol Design for Decentralised Crosschain Swaps

Presenting: Just In Time (JIT) - A Novel AMM Protocol Design for Decentralised Crosschain Swaps

Hey everyone, I've been working on this short paper for a little while now, and I'd love some feedback. Find me @SimonAHarman on twitter or on the Chainflip Discord! - Simon Overview Chainflip’s AMM design differs substantially from industry standards due to limitations introduced by

Was Vitalik Right About His Cross-Chain Comments?

Was Vitalik Right About His Cross-Chain Comments?

Last week, Vitalik Buterin posted a rather lengthy comment on reddit stating some points of concern on the future of cross chain and bridging infrastructure. This post comes at a very interesting time where dozens of cross chain and bridging projects are rolling out, all attacking the problem from different

Chainflip Community Update #4

Chainflip Community Update #4

Welcome to a new year, 2022, the year of Chainflip. Another quarter has rolled over and died, but we have dusted off a mannequin to sit in the throne in its stead. Meanwhile, it’s all systems go around here. It was great to get a break over Christmas, but

Chainflip Development Update - December 10th 2021

Chainflip Development Update - December 10th 2021

Welcome to another Chainflip Dev Update. As you may know, the Soundcheck testnet is supposed to be just around the corner. And this week, it’s Simon taking the reins. So, as his partner, I’ll carry out his wishe Progress Since Last Update: Development State Chain Bug fixing (a

Cryptoeconomics Series P4: Incentive Design: The Decentral Bank of FLIP - Liquidity, Security & Emission

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Cryptoeconomics Series P4: Incentive Design: The Decentral Bank of FLIP - Liquidity, Security & Emission

And here is part four of the Chainflip crypto-economic series with me, Simon. This time, rather than shilling our unique AMM design, we are diving into real cryptoeconomics today. We’re going to be throwing around words like “emission” “inflation” “incentives” “game theory” “return” and other wild and wonderful economic

Chainflip Community Update #3

Chainflip Community Update #3

GM or GN to you, wherever you may be. Ladies, gentlemen, and anons: another quarter has begun and enough residual guilt has built up within me that it is time to update you all for the third time. Today, I’ve got some good news, some bad news, and some

Chainflip Labs: Join us

Chainflip Labs: Join us

So you’ve found us. Congratulations. This could be the start of something great. It could also be a nothing - but until we become aware of your existence, none of us will ever know, and that is simply tragic. Here at Chainflip Labs, we are ALWAYS open to exploring

Chainflip Community Update #2

Chainflip Community Update #2

with @SimonAHarman - CEO Welcome back to the second Chainflip Community Update. I wrote an IMPERIAL TON OF WORDS in the first update back in April, so I thought now would be a good time to give the people what they want, a succinct* update of what we’ve been

Cryptoeconomics Series P3: Swapping Logic - Batching and Ending MEV

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Cryptoeconomics Series P3: Swapping Logic - Batching and Ending MEV

Welcome to part 3 of the Chainflip crypto-economic series with me, Simon. Sorry it’s been a while, scaling and fundraising while also moving my whole life across the other side of the planet during a pandemic has taken an awful lot of time. In any case, I’m landed

DEXes: The story so far and where we are headed

DEXes: The story so far and where we are headed

It’s hard to remember a time when swapping assets via DeFi wasn’t the norm. The crypto world in 2021 looks totally different to how it did just 18 months ago, before these instruments really found product-market fit. Given so much has happened over the last few years, I’

Cryptoeconomics Series P2: Validator Auction Theory

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Cryptoeconomics Series P2: Validator Auction Theory

Welcome back dear reader to the second edition of the Chainflip Cryptoeconomics series. Every part in this series is paired with its own topic in the new Chainflip Governance Forum. If after reading this you have comments, questions, or things to add, head on over and join the discussion. To

Cryptoeconomics Series P1: FLIP’s Token Model & Supply: To Cap or Not to Cap?

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Cryptoeconomics Series P1: FLIP’s Token Model & Supply: To Cap or Not to Cap?

Ah, dear reader. Whether you meant to or not, you have stumbled upon the first part of a series on Cryptoeconomics, mostly related to Chainflip, but be warned: this will get deep. If you haven’t got the time to chew through some in-depth analysis, steer clear of this series

Chainflip Community Update #1

Chainflip Community Update #1

A slab of words to appease your appetite for more information

New Website Release

New Website Release

Chainflip is proud to announce the release of our new website, featuring a brand new FAQ to boost our engagement with the community and to begin to open up the project out of stealth mode.

Lightpaper 1.0 Release

Lightpaper 1.0 Release

Chainflip Labs is happy to announce the much anticipated release of its LIGHTPAPER. This document will allow the community, investors and people interested in crypto projects to succinctly get a less technical overview of what Chainflip is trying to achieve and how it is doing so.