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Chainflip's Persistent Testnet - Perseverance

Ladies & gentleman, welcome to the (re) birth of Perseverance. Chainflip’s first persistent testnet. Yes you heard that right. As Simon mentioned in his latest community update (A must read), we will not retire Perseverance like our previous generation of testnets. Paradise, we hardly knew ya. Long live Perseverance

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Chainflip Development Update — Nov 4th 2022

Wow, has it been two weeks already? What a difference 14 days can make. Writing the last update was a bit of a chore - we had just failed to release our public testnet, Perseverance, and were grappling with some tricky networking issues. During an internal post-mortem, we took time

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Chainflip Development Update — Oct 21st 2022

Hello dear friends. With Halloween fast approaching it’s time for another update from the spooky depths of Chainflip’s development dungeon. Those of you following along closely will be aware that our Perseverance testnet launch has been delayed due to some nasty surprises lurking inside the treacherous black box

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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

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Chainflip Development Update — Oct 7th 2022

Hello and welcome to this edition of the Chainflip Development Update, hosted once again by your favourite MC. Yes, I’m back. This may delight you or may disappoint you. There will be no more surprise announcements, no more forbidden knowledge, no more secret launch dates. Developers hate dates. Dates

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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,

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Chainflip Development Update — Sep 9th 2022

Hello avid readers and welcome to this edition of the Chainflip Development Update. Another two weeks have sped by. We’ve been hard at work laying out our roadmap for the next few months, defining milestones and checkpoints, debating the finer philosophical details of what an AMM actually is, how

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Chainflip Development Update — Aug 26th 2022

Greetings again! Good news: Following my brief foray to the surface world for the last dev update, no lasting effects could be discerned apart from the giddy feeling of all that fresh oxygen and vitamin D coursing through my system. I’m back for another fix. We have been hard

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Chainflip Development Update — Aug 12th 2022

Greetings from the bowels of Chainflip. In the absence of our nerd-in-chief Tom Nash, who is on a well-deserved holiday this week, this fortnight’s update is brought to you by his lowly minion, MC Method Machine. I have briefly been let out of my dungeon to pen this update.

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Chainflip Development Update — July 29th 2022

Paradise net might be short lived. Unhappy tourists are calling for the heads of the holiday representatives. We’re bringing you all the updates. Progress Since Last Update Some highlights since the last time we spoke: * More benchmarks * Lots more web application testing * Fixed a critical bug which could cause

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Chainflip Development Update — July 15th 2022

Two rapid weeks at FLIP HQ. Shaun shirked his one duty and forgot to pester me for this one. Cheers Peanut. Progress Since Last Update Some highlights since the last time we spoke: * Memory usage fix is in * Removed a bunch of useless events * Better error handling in the CFE

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Chainflip Development Update — July 2nd 2022

Midsummer has come and gone, the days are only getting shorter from here on out. Make the most of the long evenings whilst they last if you’re in the northern hemisphere, and if you’re in the other hemisphere it’s time to start singing to the sun gods.

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Chainflip Development Update — June 17th 2022

I’m writing these closer and closer to the wire. Soon it’s going to start eating into my Friday night bubble bath time. Shorter one this week so that Shaun will get off my back. Progress Since Last Update Another public holiday in the last couple of weeks. Nevertheless,

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Chainflip Development Update — June 3rd 2022

Thanks to Peanut in the Chainflip Community channel for reminding me that I have a dev update to ship this week. What better to do on a Friday afternoon when the sun is shining, the beers are cold, and the music stream is stalled out because of the soviet-era internet

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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

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No Flipper Left Behind - Soundcheck Wrap

Ladies and gentlemen, friends and flippers, we have finally made it to the end of Soundcheck. We would be lying if we said that it all went according to plan, but we have definitely arrived at the desired destination. Soundcheck officially kicked off back in December 2021. The world was

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Chainflip Development Update — May 20th 2022

Progress Since Last Update More goals kicked in the last couple of weeks, including but not limited to: * Upgraded our Substrate version to pretty much the latest, which includes SCALE-info (basically that means our web developers are extremely happy) * Recording the fees spent by Validators on the Ethereum network (so

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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

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Chainflip Development Update — May 6th 2022

This week I’m using the teaser text to ask DJ Crayola to chainflip-ify Magikarp for this edition’s image. It’ll make sense when you read on, promise. Progress Since Last Update Development progress has been excellent in the last couple of weeks, here are a few of the

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Chainflip Development Update — April 22nd 2022

Tapped out aggressively from a slow ICE train heading to Eth Amsterdam. If you’re there this weekend, say hi. Progress Since Last Update Only 8 official working days since our last update, with the lengthy Christian resurrection festival providing a welcome double weekend here in Berlin. We’ve since

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Chainflip Development Update — April 8th 2022

Progress Since Last Update Since the last time we spoke, quite a lot has taken place in the labs. We’re working on finalising solution designs for all of the critical issues that we’re aware of before the Sandstorm release. The picture is probably not complete and I’m

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Chainflip Development Update—March 25th 2022

Another fortnight elapses, another update hits the ghost blog. Progress Since Last Update Since the last time I penned one of these we’ve been working on quite a few things, the main one being slashing. We’d like to bring slashing conditions into Soundcheck in a few weeks’ time,

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Chainflip Development Update—March 11th 2022

A shorter fortnight this week, due to most of the squad having a couple of days off for a German public holiday. Nevertheless we demand updates from the labs, so here goes. Progress Since Last Update We’ve spent the last couple of weeks ensuring that our release process is

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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

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Chainflip Development Update—February 25th 2022

I speculate that this update might be among the set of least exciting (though also least terrifying) news broadcasts of the week, but the metronome must tick on. Progress Since Last Update The offsite trip to Las Palmas (which is now over, we’re back in Berlin) was a fantastic