How Large Stake Accounts Shape the Solana Validator Set

Intro Chainflow has supported Solana from the early days. We helped design Tour De Sol—the original testnet program that set the foundation for the healthy ecosystem of validators securing the network today—and have run a high-performing Solana validator ourselves ever since. As a result, we were able to…

Chainflow’s Take on Replicated Security

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 concerns about…

Halting Quicksilver and Rewilding Solana

Let's be real: With all the momentum behind large, centralized companies co-opting the "Web3" narrative for growth, last year felt, in many ways, like a step back in the movement to decentralize the Web. Yet, as we look to 2023, we remain optimistic. We are, after all, an infrastructure company,…

Interchain Security and the Game of Chains

There's rarely a dull moment in crypto, but the industry is in an especially weird place right now. FTX's rapid blow-up, and its far-reaching consequences, have sent projects across the space spiraling. And this is, of course, just the latest in a series of developments this year that have shaken…

Chainflow Cosmos Atom 2.0 Voting

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, while steering…