James Hanley
@JamesHanley

Chief Whiteboard Explainer INF | Generalist at @sanctumso app.sanctum.so/infinity Prev: Drift, KPMG

 Australia
Joined August 2014
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It's not unreasonable to assume that INF might cannibalize our partner LSTs. The counterintuitive reality is that they actually both benefit from one another. And that while INF has been around longer, our partner LSTs have grown 10 times the size of INF.
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Will INF eat our LST's lunch?

This is a question we’re sometimes asked by teams considering launching their own branded Sanctum LST (@sanctumso). The short answer is no. The longer answer requires letting you in on a little-known

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LST holders are like owners of rental properties. Stake pool managers and operators like us at @sanctumso are like your property manager. We manage the tenancies (validators) on your behalf and the house (SOL) keys always belong to you!
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How LSTs protect your SOL

In my recent video below, I explained how native staking works on Solana and why delegating your SOL to a validator doesn’t give them permission to withdraw it: But that raises the obvious question:

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In two days Solana will be more than 15% faster. A few weeks ago, Solana's 25% speed increase temporarily tripped up our display APY figures. This article explains why, and how on Friday 18th Sept your SOL staking APY will be unaffected by these changes.
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We under reported APY for several epochs, here is why

Solana's recent speed increase temporarily tripped up our display APY formulas. In the past month, Solana got around 25% faster. This speed up caused our display APY values to drop, resulting in 6

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INF v2 - performance since launch

It’s been 8 weeks since we launched INF v2 - the first major upgrade to INF since creation nearly four years ago. For a long time we’ve said INF is the best place to grow SOL and with INF v2, that

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INF v2 - my thoughts

Today we launched INF v2. INF was first launched around 4 and a half years ago. It's @sanctumso's oldest product. For nearly 2 years it was called scnSOL (’socean’ = SOL Ocean), imagined to one day be

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INF's Magic Sauce - the LST Lemonade Stand

Last month, INF's APY spike broke our own chart. This is because INF is not like a normal LST. INF has a Magic Ingredient. That is, it acts like a Lemonade Stand for LSTs. Let me explain INF’s

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What happened to INF in epoch 866?

Epoch 866 was a bad look for INF. When I first saw it, I was scratching my head - none of it made any sense. INF had just outperformed all LST's printing several double-digit APY epochs during the

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INF nearly cost me my job

Yesterday, boss sat me down… "James, Three weeks ago, I tasked you with making INF great again. And, it's clear from the numbers that it's working. Look, TVL is up and to the right… -If you don't

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Bullish on Sanctum

Talking about Sanctum - how it works, why it's interesting and what it unlocks - gets me pumped. Especially going into Breakpoint this week. I recently spent several hours chatting with @0x_JaeThorn

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