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Breakpoint 2024: Scenes From a Firedancer Validator

Published on 16 Oct 2024

At Breakpoint 2024, the Firedancer team took the stage to showcase the latest developments in their Solana validator client. Here's the recap of that workshop.…

Highlights from the Solana Community Validator Call - September 26, 2024

Published on 27 Sep 2024

These are the topics discussed during our September 2024 Solana community validator call.…

Running a Successful Testnet: Tips & Tricks from the Trenches

Published on 24 Sep 2024

How can you run a successful testnet program? As veteran testnet validators, we are here to offer practical tips and tricks.…

The Sui Mysticeti Upgrade Demystified

Published on 18 Sep 2024

Sui Network's Mysticeti protocol is aimed at enhancing the efficiency and performance of the chain. In this article, we'll look into its components and benefits.…

Highlights from Solana Foundation's Validator Call - September 5, 2024

Published on 09 Sep 2024

This is a recap of the most recent validator call hosted by the Solana Foundation.…

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 Juno, Quicksilver, and Regen

Published on 05 Aug 2024

As part of our ongoing effort to offer delegated staking services of the highest quality, we have decided to shut down our Juno, Quicksilver and Regen networks validator nodes. If you are delegating stake to us on one of these networks, please make sure to unbond your stake at your…

Initia Governance Explained

Published on 26 Jun 2024

Today we explore the governance structure on Initia - a Layer 1 chain for interwoven rollups.…

Independent Validators Are Reliant On Foundation Delegations

Published on 12 Jun 2024

In the light of recent criticisms of the Solana Foundation Delegation Program, we reflect on indie validators' reliance on foundation delegation.…

Futarchy Governance Explained

Published on 06 Jun 2024

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

Published on 29 Apr 2024

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

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…

Finding the Right Incentives - How Protocols Can Make Decentralization Lucrative

Published on 10 Nov 2023

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…

How Large Stake Accounts Shape the Solana Validator Set

Published on 18 Apr 2023

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 Interchain Security (ICS) Take

Published on 12 Apr 2023

Chainflow joined the Cosmos community in 2017. Since then, we've been fortunate to witness, first-hand as a Hub validator, the network's and community's evolution. Interchain Security (ICS) represents one of the biggest steps in the process to-date. We recognize the benefits ICS brings to…

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…

Halting Quicksilver and Rewilding Solana

Published on 13 Jan 2023

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

Published on 23 Dec 2022

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

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,…

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…