Canton Network

Daml's MCP safety layer: Daml Reason

Daml Reason gives your AI assistant working Daml examples to follow, then checks your AI's work.

Infrastructure

How ChainSafe Maintains 99.99% Uptime

ChainSafe's public-facing blockchain infrastructure averaged 99.99% uptime across 14 production endpoints over the past 12 months. See the RPC endpoints, Filecoin bootstrap nodes, snapshots, archive nodes, testnets, and validators we run, on a fleet spread across 7 providers and 4 regions.

Lodestar

Lodestar's Position on Hegota

The Lodestar team's take on Hegota: ship a small, focused fork fast. Our tier-by-tier ranking of every proposed EIP, and the reasoning behind it.

Research & Development

Privacy in LLMs: Securing Enterprise Data Without Losing Performance

No confidential AI method is free. Each trades away speed, utility, hardware budget, or security. Compare five approaches for running LLMs on sensitive data: cryptography, TEEs, obfuscation, differential privacy, and hybrid splits.

Canton Network

Instantly and Securely Monetize Internal Data: ChainSafe’s x402 Facilitator for the Canton Network

Monetize internal data on the Canton Network with ChainSafe's x402 Facilitator. Enable machine-to-machine payments, privacy-preserving predicate queries, and micro-billing for autonomous AI agents—no data migration required.

Web3 Gaming

Open Creator Rails: Monetization from Subscriber #1

OCR allows creators to run gated content directly on their own landing pages, sidestepping monetization thresholds entirely.

Lodestar

Fast Confirmation in Lodestar: Safer than Head, Faster than Finality

Ethereum operators usually choose between two familiar views of the chain: head, and finalized. Fast Confirmation fills the gap in between.

Infrastructure

Decentralized infrastructure: What happens when operators lose control

In decentralized systems, the protocol determines correctness, and the operator determines reliability. This shifts operators from writing the rules to following them and changes where the hardest infrastructure decisions live.

Research & Development

Writing Zig Native Node.js Addons Without N-API Boilerplate

Writing native Node.js addons in Zig shouldn't mean drowning in N-API boilerplate. Enter zapi: a tool featuring a new high-level DSL that automatically turns plain Zig functions into type-safe JavaScript APIs at compile time, blending low-level control with a seamless developer experience.

Infrastructure

The 2026 Guide to Blockchain Privacy: 5 approaches for institutional adoption

Blockchain privacy has moved from ideology to architecture. Explore privacy approaches, from ZK-Rollups and private L2s to TEEs and FHE, shaping institutional digital asset management in 2026.

Canton Network

Canton, Meet Ethereum: ERC-20/CIP-56 Middleware is here

ChainSafe's ERC-20/CIP-56 Middleware is a high-fidelity translation layer that lets you deploy to Canton using your existing EVM workflows, MetaMask signatures, and infrastructure.

Canton Network

Automate Canton Network Development with Daml Autopilot

ChainSafe's DAML Autopilot features 3,600+ compiler-validated patterns, built-in safety checks, and CI automation to streamline DAML smart contract development.

Ethereum

Defending Lodestar Against NPM Supply Chain Attacks

How Lodestar secures hundreds of thousands of staked ETH with TypeScript.

announcements

The Orbitor Public Gateway

Orbitor is a new IPFS public gateway by ChainSafe, offering region-aware, low-latency access to decentralized content across South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Built for resilience, scale, and openness.

Lodestar's Proposal for Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Upgrade (EIP-7732 & FOCIL)

Ethereum has a unique property unlike any other Layer 1 blockchain. The community and the technological structure of Ethereum's protocol are meant to ensure we preserve its permissionlessness and decentralization ethos.

Filecoin

Memory Analysis in Rust

A practical rundown of tools and techniques for tracking down memory use in Rust, drawn from profiling the Forest Filecoin node. From heaptrack and gperftools/pprof to dhat and valgrind, here’s what worked, what didn’t, and how to spot OOM risks.

Infrastructure

What Could Go Wrong?

Sequencers are vital for Layer 2 rollups on Ethereum and beyond, but face risks from bugs, censorship, and stalls. Exploring modular sequencing can unlock safer, more scalable blockchain networks.

monthly roundup

ChainSafe’s Monthly Roundup: Issue #6

July was a big month across the ChainSafe ecosystem, with progress spanning privacy tech, infrastructure upgrades, and core client development.

Forest

What Does Immutability Mean to Filecoin?

Immutability was never just technical. From stone tablets to CIDs, we’ve always tried to make memory last. In blockchains, it’s a core tenet, data sealed by consensus. In Filecoin, it's a web of incentives, proofs, and people choosing not to forget.

Research & Development

On Token Vesting

Token vesting in Web3 controls token release to prevent mass sell-offs, protecting price stability. Learn what it is, how it works, and why strategies like randomized vesting could improve market health and protocol governance.

Web3 Gaming

Building web3 gaming guilds: Parallel’s Bonds system

Parallel's Bonds system revolutionizes Web3 gaming by offering players seamless, trustless access to Parallel’s cards, breaking down barriers and fostering a fair, inclusive gaming experience for all.

Research & Development

(Yet another) Circle STARK tutorial

Dive into the intricacies of Circle STARKs, their efficiency over Mersenne 31 prime, and the challenges of FFT/FRI compatibility.

Integrating web3.js into the Frontend

Integrating web3 capabilities into the frontend is crucial for building decentralized applications (dApps) that interact seamlessly with the blockchain. This blog covers the essentials of using web3.js, connecting to the Ethereum network, and building a simple dApp. Introduction to web3.js Web3.js is a JavaScript library for interacting

Creating and interacting with an ERC-20 token on the Filecoin Virtual Machine using web3.js

Learn to create and interact with an ERC-20 token on the Filecoin Virtual Machine using web3.js. This comprehensive guide covers setting up your environment, deploying smart contracts, and executing token transfers, making web3 development accessible even for beginners.

Research & Development

Understanding GKR

Cryptographic commitments often bottleneck SNARKs. Circle STARKs and Binius reduce costs but add new challenges. GKR offers another path, cutting overhead by almost avoiding commitments entirely.