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A Beginner's Guide to Sui Staking

Published on 03 May 2023

This post provides a high-level, non-technical introduction to staking SUI tokens.…

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 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,…

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.…

Flashbots Eth2 Working Group Sponsorship

Published on 04 Dec 2021

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

Published on 12 Aug 2021

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

Published on 21 Apr 2021

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

Published on 13 Apr 2021

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

Published on 31 Mar 2021

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

Published on 30 Mar 2021

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

Published on 26 Mar 2021

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,…

Agoric Incentivized Testnet AMA Hosted by Chainflow

Published on 24 Mar 2021

Chainflow's feeling excited to host an AMA on the Agoric incentivized testnet. Here are the ground rules and some of the questions we'll cover.…

Flow Staking Guide Using Ledger Nano

Published on 11 Feb 2021

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

Published on 27 Jan 2021

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

Published on 13 Jan 2021

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

Chainflow's PolkaDot Thousand Validators Case for Good Intentions

Published on 12 Jan 2021

Chainflow's applying to the PolkaDot Thousand Validators program. Here's our case for good intentions.…

Chainflow's 2020 Recap

Published on 31 Dec 2020

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

Published on 13 Nov 2020

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.…

A Short Note on Celo's Current Uptime Requirement

Published on 07 Jul 2020

A Celo validator's uptime score takes a hit if the validator is down for a minute or longer. This feels overly restrictive to me.…

Introducing the Staking Defense Podcast

Published on 06 Jul 2020

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