COMMUNITY Chainflip v1.8 Upgrade After a year of major feature rollouts like our Solana integration, DCA support for better-priced swaps, and the launch of Boost for faster BTC swaps, Chainflip’s upcoming v1.8 release delivers major improvements. This update focuses on making integrations easier and more reliable, improving user experience, and reinforcing economic
COMMUNITY Featured Swap Solana to Bitcoin on Hyperliquid with Chainflip & Unit Hyperliquid's introduction of Unit marks a major step in unlocking Bitcoin's potential within its ecosystem. Unit's Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and deposit address generation function similarly to Chainflip's own technology, allowing for transfer of native Bitcoin to and from ecosystems. With Chainflip, users
COMMUNITY Featured Introducing the Upgraded Swap Analytics Page Advanced Analytics, better Aggregation Controls, Enhanced Filtering, Deeper Swap Route Insights, Real-Time Swap Tracking, and more.
EN Boost Fee Split & $FLIP Burn Increase With our upcoming 1.8 release comes a host of changes, one of which is the Boost fee split to $FLIP buy-and-burn. Below is a breakdown of what this change entails and how it affects Boost users. Impact on Boost Liquidity Providers Boost users may notice a reduction in Boost
COMMUNITY 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
COMMUNITY Chainflip 2024 In Numbers As Chainflip concluded its first year of mainnet operations in 2024, the protocol demonstrated remarkable growth across all key metrics. The protocol expanded its feature set with innovations like Boost and DCA (Dollar-Cost Averaging), while successfully integrating Solana and Arbitrum support to broaden its chain offerings. A major milestone was
COMMUNITY Featured FLIP Fortnightly Wrap #5: Fresh Updates, Big Moves We’re back, folks! The FLIP Fortnightly Wrap is making its comeback, and this time, we’re switching things up. No more live updates — we’re going to keep things easier to digest and refer back to. Expect the same mix of developer updates (yes, those beloved ones), community highlights,
EN Chainflip 2024 Wrapped 2024 is wrapping up, and what a year it’s been for Chainflip. In just under 12 months since launching live swapping, we’ve hit incredible milestones, crossed $1 billion in swap volume, and cemented our position as the only protocol offering native Solana and Bitcoin routes in the space.
COMMUNITY A Proposal: Rethinking Boost With Bitcoin on the rise and more folks flocking to Boost for its yield, we’ve noticed something interesting: swappers seem less sensitive to fees than we expected, and yields have remained consistently high since launch. Maybe it’s because the fees on decentralised platforms like ours are lower than
COMMUNITY Chainflip Liquidity Provision: Strategies and Risks TL;DR Chainflip offers unique opportunities for liquidity providers (LPs) to generate yield by providing liquidity on-chain through innovative strategies. This guide covers how Chainflip’s Just-In-Time (JIT) AMM model works, its yield opportunities, and various strategies for earning yield on BTC, stablecoins, and non-stablecoins, each with different levels of
COMMUNITY Bitcoin Dominance Continues to Grow – But Almost None of It Is On-Chain TL;DR: Bitcoin’s market dominance is rising, fuelled by institutional inflows and its role as a store of value. Yet, most BTC trades remain off-chain on centralised exchanges, limiting its decentralised potential. Chainflip, Maya Protocol, and Thorchain are pioneering on-chain BTC swaps, offering truly decentralised trading alternatives. Together, we’
COMMUNITY Featured Boost Bitcoin with Chainflip: High-Yield Opportunities for Liquidity Providers Boosted swaps by Chainflip allow users to Boost Bitcoin swaps with similar speed and efficiency found in centralised exchanges. Typically, swapping native Bitcoin can be slow, with block times taking up to 40 minutes for confirmations. However, with Chainflip Boost, this process becomes much faster, enabling users to complete swaps
EN How DCA Swaps Work on Chainflip Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) swaps represent a new pricing strategy from Chainflip, designed to reduce the risks associated with market volatility by spreading a large swap over several smaller transactions. This automated process allows users to swap at significantly better pricing. Lets explore two scenarios on how DCA works in
COMMUNITY Featured Chainflip Q3 Recap The time has come to take a closer look at Chainflip’s progress over the past quarter. From exciting new product and protocol upgrades to fresh faces in the community, and even a few industry firsts—there’s a lot to dive into! Protocol Performance In Q3, Chainflip facilitated $206.
COMMUNITY Featured $FLIP Fortnightly Wrap #2 - Summary Gm We've wrapped up another two weeks at Chainflip Labs HQ, and we’re excited to share all the progress we've made. If you want to catch up on the details, you can listen to the full discussion via the link below. Or, for an easy-to-digest
COMMUNITY Learn How To Boost Your Bitcoin Swaps Boosted swaps by Chainflip are a brand new initiative to the industry, and aims to bring our product in line with the speed and flow of centralised exchanges. Swapping to and from native Bitcoin is painstakingly slow, with block times taking upwards to 40 minutes to finalise sometimes! As we
COMMUNITY 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'
COMMUNITY 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
COMMUNITY 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.
DEVELOPMENT 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
COMMUNITY 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 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,
COMMUNITY Partnership Announcement: THORWallet to integrate Chainflip for their cross chain swaps We're excited to share the news of a strategic partnership between THORWallet and Chainflip, aimed at integrating Chainflip's backend to enhance the cross-chain swap capabilities within THORWallet. This collaboration is set to provide users with more efficient and competitive swap rates, particularly for major assets like
COMMUNITY El Dorado Elevates Cross-Chain Swaps, Integrating Chainflip for Enhanced Efficiency El Dorado is on the brink of a significant transformation. The planned integration with Chainflip aims to boost its position to the forefront of cross-chain swap efficiency. This strategic partnership is poised to equip El Dorado with advanced transaction routing capabilities for native digital assets, establishing it as a formidable
COMMUNITY Houdini Swap and Chainflip Unite to Optimise Native Bitcoin Swaps We are thrilled to announce a dynamic partnership and integration with Chainflip as one of the first launch partners, heralding a new era in the DEX aggregation space. This collaboration is set to equip Houdini Swap with some of the most competitive transaction routing for native assets on the market.
