Futarchy Governance Explained
Chainflow and MetaDAO in conversation on futarchy governance, its mechanisms, benefits and challenges.…
Decoding Solana’s Stake-Weighted Quality of Service (QoS) and Its Impact on Validators
Stake-weighted Quality of Service (QoS) is a mechanism on Solana that allows block producers to identify and prioritize transactions based on the amount of SOL staked by the sender. In simple words, QoS enables prioritizing traffic on the network. It serves as an additional sybil resistance mechanism, enabling validators to…
Sunsetting Our Oasis Protocol Validator Node
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…
Namada’s Positive Sum Economics and Our Core Values
With the Namada mainnet launch coming soon, we decided to take a deeper look into the network and explore its economics in the context of Chainflow. What is Namada Namada is a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Layer 1 that focuses on shielded asset transfers and interchain asset-agnostic data protection. In simple terms,…
Finding the Right Incentives - How Protocols Can Make Decentralization Lucrative
I was invited to participate in this panel by my friends at Staking Rewards. For a number of years now, Staking Rewards has provided me with an opportunity to discuss topics related to decentralization. These topics are often difficult to talk about and at times unpopular. I thank Staking Rewards…
A Beginner's Guide to Sui Staking
This post provides a high-level, non-technical introduction to staking SUI tokens.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
The Layers of Decentralization: Understanding the Accumulation of Power in the Staking Economy
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
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
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
The Solana Validator Mission Control monitoring and alerting dashboard is a free and open-source tool that monitors Solana validator infrastructure.…
Agoric's Phase 2 Incentivized Testnet and Downtime Slashing
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
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.…
Agoric's Incentivized Testnet AMA Summary
Here's a summary of the answers from Agoric's Incentivized testnet AMA that took place at 1600 UTC, Thursday, March 25 in Chainflow's Telegram group.…
Initial Thoughts on Agoric's Incentivized Testnet
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.…
Livepeer Staking Guide
If you prefer a video tutorial on staking your LPT tokens, please scroll to the end of the article ⬇️ Here is an easy way to stake your LPT: 1) Go to explorer.livepeer and click on "Orchestrators" 2) Now, if you filter the "Orchestrators" by performance,…