ipfs 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.
Gaming Streamlined Onboarding With Ramp & ChainSafe Gaming As a part of the latest SDK update, the ChainSafe Gaming team recently integrated Ramp into web3.unity. With Ramp's help, we're making in-game transactions easier than ever by providing a link between traditional money (fiat) and cryptocurrency. What is Ramp? Ramp provides a powerful fiat-crypto toolkit to enable smooth
web3js Web3.js Participates in the First Streaming Quadratic Funding Round Exciting news! Web3.js has joined the pilot program to participate in the first Streaming Quadratic Funding Round! This collaborative effort by Geo Web, Superfluid, and Gitcoin's Allo Protocol represents a novel approach to funding public goods. By participating in this first-ever SQF round, web3.js stands to gain a
loot box Featured Introducing Decentralized Loot Boxes 1. What are loot boxes? 2. What’s in the box? 3. How to open a loot box 4. Loot boxes: centralization vs decentralization 5. How do Decentralized Loot Boxes work? 6. How to use Decentralized Loot boxes 7. What can you do with loot boxes? 8. Best practices 9.
crypto-wallet Creating a Wallet Application Using web3.js v4 and ReactJS Web3.js is a collection of modules that allow you to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node using HTTP, IPC, or WebSocket. The Ethereum Foundation awarded ChainSafe a grant in the Fall of 2020 to maintain and modernize web3.js, which began with continuing to support v1.x
bridge On the Future of ChainBridge Introducing the chainbridge-core repo Since its inception, ChainSafe has been passionate about fostering open-source projects, contributing to the web3 ecosystem, and supporting the growth and development of innovative technologies. Among these projects, one that has left a mark in the space is ChainBridge, a modular and extensible bridging protocol that
Ethereum Ethereum Testnets, Goerli ETH, and a Way Forward Authored by Colin Adams Recently, a new testnet bridge was built, allowing for real-time pricing of ETH/GOERLI-ETH and opening up a market for these assets. The stated objective of this was to enhance the accessibility of GoETH for Ethereum developers. While it sounds promising in theory, we have been
R&D Introducing Post-quantum Security to Signatures on Substrate Authored by Elizabeth ChainSafe is proud to announce the completion of a collaboration with xx network, one of the world's first quantum-resistant and privacy-focused blockchain ecosystems. A few months back, xx network enlisted our help to **** implement Winternitz One Time Signatures (W-OTS+) for Substrate-based chains and automated Placards generation. The
Ethereum Web3.js Repository Migration Announcement Authored by Colin Adams As part of our collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation (EF), we're migrating the web3.js repository to a new repo. ChainSafe will continue to be solely responsible for the maintenance and improvement of web3.js. With 500,000+ weekly downloads, web3.js is one of Ethereum's
Polkadot ChainSafe Receives a Web3 Foundation Grant for SubstrateSnap Authored by Colin Adams We're delighted to announce that ChainSafe has received another grant from the Web3 Foundation (W3F). This time to complete a rewrite of SubstrateSnap, an experimental plugin that extends the functionality of MetaMask to Polkadot and other Substrate-based chains. What's a snap? For context, a "snap" is
blockchain A Brief History of ChainSafe From humble beginnings, ChainSafe has grown into one of the leading research and development firms in the blockchain space. As we approach our fifth birthday, we want to look back and trace the journey that led us to where we are today. ChainSafe Genesis The origin of ChainSafe is best
interoperability Breaking Down the Meter Hack Authored by Colin Adams Bridge hacks are becoming increasingly commonplace in crypto, a fact that underscores how hard it is to move assets safely between chains. According to the Rekt leaderboard, there have been seventy-three big hacks since the start of 2021, with seven already this year, a few of
privacy Sprint Toward Mainnet Authored by Willem Olding ChainSafe completes initial engagement with xx Network ChainSafe Solutions is ChainSafe's internal applied research and development arm. We provide research and solutions engineering to explore new technical and business frontiers in support of larger projects both internal and external to ChainSafe. The ChainSafe Solutions team has
blockchain Architecting decentralized Gitcoin Grants with ChainSafe Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Gitcoin Grants will be decentralizing with the help of ChainSafe, Scopelift, and the entire team behind the Decentralize Gitcoin Workstream. ChainSafe is proud to announce we have been enlisted by the Gitcoin team to research and build the spec for a fully distributed architecture
Filecoin ChainSafe awarded a grant by The Graph for Filecoin Integration Spec Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho [Editor's note: The original version of the article has since been modified. The original incorrectly stated that ChainSafe would be helping to spec and build the Filecoin integration on The Graph. However, the grant was awarded for building the spec, and not the build
announcements ChainSafe announces acquisition of Node Factory Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Toronto-based blockchain R&D firm ChainSafe announces the acquisition of Croatian blockchain partner Node Factory. Toronto, Canada - July 23, 2021, ChainSafe is a leading blockchain development and engineering solutions firm encompassing top engineering talent from around the world. The company is architecting official
Ethereum Lodestar’s brand-new brand Authored by Cindy Chau Lodestar's brand-new brand As the team is hard at work preparing the first light-client prototype and stabilizing the current Eth2 node implementation, we've also made changes to evolve Lodestar's brand identity. Today we're unveiling an updated logo: Since Lodestar is the Eth2 implementation written in Typescript,
Gaming Announcing ChainSafe Gaming: An SDK To Bridge Your Gaming Engines To The Web 3.0 Ecosystem Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho "Games will be the inflection point for blockchain adoption." - Leon Do Here at ChainSafe, we strive to push the envelope on open source infrastructure development in all manners of ecosystems. There's never been a more exciting time than now to be following the
Polkadot Bringing Chainlink’s tamper-proof data to Polkadot and Cosmos Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho ChainSafe awarded two Chainlink Community Grants OK; LG ChainSafe is honoured to receive two Chainlink Community Grants to further bolster oracle development in two major blockchain ecosystems. The first grant - announced on April 23rd, 2021 - was awarded to us for the ongoing
technology Realizing the Mina vision in Rust Authored by Ben Adar Announcing a new grant from the Mina Foundation ChainSafe is proud to announce we have been awarded a grant by the Mina Foundation to build an additional implementation of the Mina Protocol to improve the network's resilience and accessibility. The grant will serve as an extension
Polkadot Building parachains with Go-cumulus Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho ChainSafe awarded a new Web3 Foundation grant for Go-cumulus "Specialization breeds optimization." Robert Habermeier ChainSafe has been awarded a new grant from the Web3 Foundation to build a Go equivalent of the Cumulus extension to Substrate! The goal of this grant is to enable
blockchain Announcing the Polkadot Index Network Token by StakerDAO, developed by ChainSafe & Stateless Money Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Get all of the developer blogs and latest updates on the Polkadot Index Network Token from the PINT Substack here. Care to share a PINT with us? 🍻 ChainSafe will be building PINT, or the Polkadot Index Network Token, in conjunction with Stateless Money! The
bitcoin CSCON[0] By the Numbers Authored by Stu Peters Since it's very beginning ChainSafe has been a community-focused organization. In fact, it was at an Ethereum Developers Meetup that some of the founders originally met. Since then we have felt an obligation to cultivate and contribute to the community that has been so welcoming and
blockchain Introducing ChainSafe Files Authored by Colin Schwarz ChainSafe is excited to announce ChainSafe Files. ChainSafe Files will be the first of many products released by ChainSafe. We envision a world where we can empower people to create and innovate by delivering the benefits of blockchain and other distributed technologies. Our line of products
Ethereum ChainSafe Receives Grant from EF for Web3JS! Authored by Colin Schwarz This article was co-authored by Ben Hyman. ChainSafe is proud to announce that we have received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to continue the maintenance and further development of Web3JS. We are excited to consolidate, maintain and upgrade, the codebase of this important library. Throughout
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