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chainSOL is live: liquid staking, with our commission returned on-chain

Published on 17 Sep 2026

Our liquid staking token on Solana is live. Every epoch we return 100% of the inflation commission and MEV earned on chainSOL's stake back to holders, verifiable on-chain. Native staking stays exactly as it is.…

How Staker Override Works on Solana, and Why You Should Use It

Published on 28 Aug 2026

Three SGPs are on the floor, and if you stake SOL your vote has already been cast by your validator, whether or not you agree with it. You can change that. Here's how override works, and the one thing about it nobody's explaining.…

Before the Constitution: 3 Years of Solana Governance Nobody Saw

Published on 12 Aug 2026

3 SGPs are on the floor. The process they'll be voted through started 3 years ago, in a Discord server, among a small group of validators who decided Solana would need governance before anyone was asking for it,…

Why We're Becoming an Operator on Alpen

Published on 04 Aug 2026

For over a decade, using Bitcoin productively has meant handing it to a custodian. Alpen's bridge doesn't require that trade, its security holds as long as one honest operator is functioning. Chainflow is joining as one of the first, and this is our reasoning.…

Lifetime of a Solana Transaction: From Sender to Confirmation

Published on 19 Mar 2026

A comprehensive guide to Solana's transaction pipeline, where third-party services fit in, and what it all means for validators and stakers.…

Breakpoint 2025: Scaling the Read Layer to 1M TPS

Published on 23 Feb 2026

In this series, we summarize the most insightful talks from Solana Breakpoint 2025.…

Breakpoint 2025: The Hidden Costs of Bad UX

Published on 17 Feb 2026

In this series, we summarize the most insightful talks from Solana Breakpoint 2025.…

Breakpoint 2025: Layer 33 and the Fight to Keep Solana Decentralized

Published on 09 Feb 2026

In this series, we summarize the most insightful talks from Solana Breakpoint 2025.…

The MakerDAO Governance Attack and the Debate Around Governance Transparency

Published on 26 Feb 2025

The recent MakerDAO governance attack sparked debate around governance transparency and decentralization…

Highlights from Solana Community Validator Call - December 5, 2024

Published on 09 Dec 2024

On December 5, we had our last community-organized Solana Validator Call of the year. Here are the notes of everything we discussed.…

Highlights from the Solana Community Validator Call - October 24, 2024

Published on 25 Oct 2024

A recap of the October community-led Solana validator call we host every month.…

Highlights from Solana Foundation's Validator Call - October 10, 2024

Published on 11 Oct 2024

As an active Solana governance and community participant, we regularly attend community and validator calls. Here are the notes validator call hosted by the Solana Foundation on October 10, 2024.…

Community Governance & Public Goods Funding: Insights and Strategies

Published on 12 Aug 2024

The Chainflow team took part in the 2024 Nebular Summit - a developer conference focused on the Cosmos stack and ecosystem. Our Protocols Specialist Othman had the pleasure of sitting on a panel on community governance and public goods at Nebular Summit 2024. Here is a recap of the panel.…

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…

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.…