How Large Stake Accounts Shape the Solana Validator Set

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 Cosmos Atom 2.0 Voting

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,…

Flashbots Eth2 Working Group Sponsorship

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

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.…

Decentralizing the Regen Validator Set

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

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.…

Livepeer Staking Guide

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,…

Flow Staking Guide Using Ledger Nano

Flow Staking Guide Using Ledger Nano

If you prefer a video tutorial on staking your FLOW tokens, please scroll to the end of the article ⬇️ Here is an easy way to stake your FLOW tokens through the Ledger Nano: 1. Use “Manager” in Ledger Live to install the FLOW App. 2. Once it is installed, click…

Iris Network Alerting Bot

Iris Network Alerting Bot

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.…

Greetings Graph Delegators

Greetings Graph Delegators

Thanks for stopping by to learn about Chainflow, our Graph Indexer and why you might consider delegating to us 🙏…

Chainflow's 2020 Recap

Chainflow's 2020 Recap

Introduction Chainflow feels fortunate 2020's been a year of growth for us. We realize this good fortunate has manifested in year marked by suffering and loss at levels never experienced so deeply, by so many. This post summarizes many of the ways we've been able to…

The Rise of the Activist Validator

The Rise of the Activist Validator

In Part 1 of this two part series, I describe the current situation in staking networks and why I see a need for activist validators.…

Introducing the Staking Defense Podcast

Introducing the Staking Defense Podcast

The Staking Defense podcast is live! Its intention is give give smaller, yet still very capable, proof of stake validator operators a bigger voice.…