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Chainflip Launch Season Sprint

Introduction Welcome to the Chainflip Launch Season Sprint, a straightforward initiative to get participants acquainted with the Chainflip protocol before its official launch and Token Generation Event (TGE). Beyond understanding, there’s a chance to earn rewards of up to $5,000 worth of FLIP! 🚀 Chainflip Launch Season Sprint by

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Chainflip Development Update — October 20th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev Update, We are releasing Perseverance 0.10! As we speak, validators are updating their Chainflip Engine in preparation for the runtime update. Because we made some breaking changes, this update is more complicated than usual, but there is a detailed documentation available. More on that

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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

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Chainflip Development Update — September 21st 2023

Dear readers of the Development Blog, The past two weeks went by so quickly and it’s already time for another dev update. We are pretty much feature complete for the mainnet release and it’s getting closer and closer. Progress Last Friday we enabled swapping on Perseverance! This was

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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

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Chainflip Development Update — September 11th 2023

Dear readers of the Chainflip Dev update, We did it! We released Perseverance 0.9. This is expected to be the last major testnet release before the mainnet. Still, there will be some smaller updates (0.9.1 is on its way) if we feel that they are necessary. Progress

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Chainflip Development Update — August 28th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev Update, What an exciting week this was! On Monday we launched our swapping demo to the public and held our breath as the swaps started to stream in. Of course, we were a bit nervous, but everything worked just fine and by Tuesday we had

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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

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.

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Chainflip Development Update — August 10th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev update, You probably all want to know the outcome of Ramiz’ office dinner. Let me tell you, it was amazing. Spicy, succulent, rich goodness! Just like the code he writes. Progress The witnessing refactor has been completed! Our testing shows that the new system behaves

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Chainflip Development Update — July 27th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev-Update, It’s been some time since the last dev update. When the time came for the next post, I was lying in bed with a fever, unable to put out anything helpful or funny. Luckily, my recovery was quick. Since then, many things happened and

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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

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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)

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Chainflip Development Update — May 26th 2023

Dear readers of the Dev update, Today we have released version 0.8 of our Sisyphus test network. This means that the corresponding Perseverance release will happen soon afterwards. This is a big milestone, because it will allow participants to finally try their hand at swapping and liquidity provision. Internally,

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Chainflip Development Update — May 12th 2023

Dear readers of the DevUpdate, In this post I want to tell you a bit more about some of the process changes we have implemented at chainflip. As mentioned in the last update, we have moved over to using the Linear app for managing our tasks and projects. We have

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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

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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

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Chainflip Development Update — Mar 31st 2023

Hello, dear readers of the dev update! Progress First, I have to thank Simon for keeping the dev update going while I was busy with various important and not so important things. As you might have noticed, we released version 0.7 of the Perseverance testnet and that kept us

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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!

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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

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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

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Chainflip Development Update — Feb 17th 2023

Dear reader, Welcome to another dev update coming from sunny South Africa. If you played Zelda, you know that it’s dangerous to go alone. Luckily, last week we announced a partnership with Axelar and Squid which will allow us to leverage their capabilities and provide access to even more

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Chainflip Partners with Axelar and Squid to Expand DeFi to New Assets

Chainflip is now in the final stages before its launch, with a focus on not just offering an alternative to centralised exchanges but providing a superior option for users to swap assets in a native manner. The goal of displacing centralised exchanges is a formidable one, but we believe it

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Chainflip Development Update — Feb 3rd 2023

Dear Readers of the "Dev Update", These are times of rapid growth. As you might or might not have noticed, the Perseverance Testnet has recently reached 1 Million Blocks and the number of Blog posts I've authored has pretty much doubled since last time! But we

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Chainflip Development Update — Jan 19th 2023

On Wednesday, Simon asked me whether I felt ready to take over the task of writing the "Dev Update". Given that I had just joined Chainflip as the new CTO, and you - dear reader of the "Dev Update" - also seem to be interested in