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
IntroChainflow 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 attract…
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…
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.…