cflows - Chainflow

Values Matter

Published on 04 Mar 2025

Chainflow's founder is reflecting on the importance of values and the hope over the future of crypto.…

The Absence of, and Need for the Activist Validator

Published on 28 Aug 2024

The lack of dissenting voices within validator communities create a self-reinforcing, good vibes only, echo chamber. What's missing is a system of checks and balances which is required to keep founder, core team and Foundation power in check.…

Sunsetting Our Oasis Protocol Validator Node

Published on 04 Apr 2024

After careful consideration, we have decided to shut down our Oasis validator node. It will remain functional until Tuesday, April 9 and will be stopped after that date. ⚠️ If you are have staked on Oasis with us, please make sure to re-delegate to another validator before the shutdown date. ⚠️ We…

Chainflow X Jito StakeNet Twitter Space Q&A

Published on 31 Jan 2024

Stakenet? Stakenet is a self-sustaining protocol designed for Solana LSTs, comprising on-chain programs including the steward program, on-chain history program, and keeper bots. Operating on the Solana mainnet, Stakenet aims to assume complete management of Jito Sol. The steward program acts as the stakepool manager, determining the scoring of validators…

Chainflow’s Take on Replicated Security

Published on 24 Feb 2023

Update (March 6th, 2023): After confirming that more than 2/3 of active Cosmos Hub validators must choose to validate new consumers chains for these chains to go live, we updated our vote on Prop 187 to "Abstain" in order to reflect that, while we still have open…

Chainflow Cosmos Atom 2.0 Voting

Published on 12 Nov 2022

We joined the Cosmos in October 2017 as an outsider. Since that time, we've supported the community in our own, mostly quiet way, as Chainflow grew from a one person operation to the small team we are today. We never became an insider and have maintained our independence,…

The Layers of Decentralization: Understanding the Accumulation of Power in the Staking Economy

Published on 23 Mar 2022

Many in the staking economy talk the talk of decentralization yet far fewer walk the walk, so staking networks centralize into top heavy oligarchies.…

Opening the Door to Freedom

Published on 28 Jan 2022

The following comes from The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel: “Aligning money towards a life that lets you do what you want, when you want, with who you want, where you want, for as long as you want, has incredible return.” “The highest form of wealth is the ability…

Flashbots Eth2 Working Group Sponsorship

Published on 04 Dec 2021

Chainflow plans to sponsor 1 or 2 validators to represent smaller, independent and self-funded Eth2 validator operators.Here's why and how to apply.…

Introducing Solana Mission Control

Published on 12 Aug 2021

The Solana Validator Mission Control monitoring and alerting dashboard is a free and open-source tool that monitors Solana validator infrastructure.…

The Importance of Values in the Staking Economy

Published on 07 Jun 2021

This post appeared originally on The Defiant under the title "The Importance of Values in the Staking Economy." You can read the original on The Defiant, here. Joining the Proof-of-Stake Community I entered the broader crypto community through Ethereum. I was the project manager at ENS for three…

Agoric's Phase 2 Incentivized Testnet and Downtime Slashing

Published on 21 Apr 2021

The start of the Agoric Incentivized Testnet Phase 2 felt a bit rushed. Yet the validator set's response made a good argument against downtime slashing.…

Decentralizing the Regen Validator Set

Published on 13 Apr 2021

Regen will launch its mainnet with 50 validators. This post explains why, how the initial 50 are selected and how that number will grow after launch.…

Staking’s Free Rider Problem

Published on 31 Mar 2021

This piece appeared originally on Mirror under the title "Staking's Free Rider Problem." You can read the original on Mirror, here. Givers and Takers Every community has givers and takers. Some give. Some take. Some give and take. The takers usually outnumber the givers. Those that…

Initial Thoughts on Agoric's Incentivized Testnet

Published on 30 Mar 2021

We feel fortunate Chainflow is one of the 150 that made the cut from 6000 applicants. Here are our intial thoughts about Agoric's incentivized testnet.…

Agoric Incentivized Testnet AMA Hosted by Chainflow

Published on 24 Mar 2021

Chainflow's feeling excited to host an AMA on the Agoric incentivized testnet. Here are the ground rules and some of the questions we'll cover.…

Rich Getting Richer in Proof-of-Stake Chains

Published on 22 Feb 2021

This post appeared originally on The Defiant under the title "'Rich Getting Richer in PoS Chains:' By Chainflow’s Chris Remus." You can read the original on The Defiant, here. Stake’s Not Decentralized (Yet?) There’s a lot of excitement in the staking economy these…

Iris Network Alerting Bot

Published on 27 Jan 2021

The Iris Network alerting bot is a simple, yet effective, open source bot that sends Telegram or email alerts based on key validator performance metrics.…

A Decentralized Staking Doomsday Scenario

Published on 21 Jan 2021

This piece appeared originally on Mirror under the title "A Decentralized Staking Doomsday Scenario." You can read the original on Mirror, here. The Scenario Coinbase announced it was acquiring staking as a service provider Bison Trails earlier this week. The usual congratulations and back patting went around on…

Crypto and Blockchain Governance Resources

Published on 19 Jan 2021

This piece appeared originally on Mirror under the title "Crypto and Blockchain Governance Resources." You can read the original on Mirror, here. Resources This is my running list of crypto and blockchain governance resources here. I'll annotate them as well, as I find the time and…