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Lodestar Initial Audit Passes with Flying Colours

Lodestar Initial Audit Passes with Flying Colours

Authored by Colin Schwarz Lodestar Initial Audit Passes with Flying Colours ChainSafe is excited to announce that Lodestar has recently passed an audit of several critical components of our tooling libraries. Lodestar is ChainSafe's Eth2.0 client being built in Typescript. Lodestar provides highly accessible tooling libraries that benefit the

The future of Polkadot in Golang: Gossamer

The future of Polkadot in Golang: Gossamer

Authored by Amer Ameen The vision behind our implementation of the Polkadot Host. It's hard to believe that it's been almost a year since we started working on Gossamer. As they say, time flies when you're having fun! Building Gossamer has been a journey of significant learning & growth. Having the

Announcing Forest: ChainSafe’s Implementation of Filecoin in Rust

Announcing Forest: ChainSafe’s Implementation of Filecoin in Rust

Authored by Amer Ameen ChainSafe is excited to announce that we were awarded a grant by Protocol Labs to build an additional implementation of Filecoin in Rust. We are thrilled to be contributing to the Filecoin ecosystem and grateful to be working so closely with Protocol Labs! What is Filecoin?

ChainSafe Releases Go-Schnorrkel

ChainSafe Releases Go-Schnorrkel

Authored by Colin Schwarz ChainSafe is excited to announce that we have recently released Go-Schnorrkel, a pure Go implementation of the sr25519 signature algorithm (schnorr over ristretto25519). sr25519 is the default signing algorithm for substrate so the first implementation is in rust. Go-Schnorrkel was written by ChainSafe engineer Elizabeth and

Aragon Chain Spec Goes Public

Aragon Chain Spec Goes Public

Authored by Colin Schwarz ChainSafe is excited to announce that we have just published the specification for Aragon Chain. Aragon Chain is a new chain optimized for Aragon usage. Aragon Chain will be built by implementing existing Aragon smart contracts and associated components on Ethermint, which was also built by

Lodestar Grants Update

Lodestar Grants Update

Authored by Colin Schwarz Lodestar Grants Update Written by Cayman Nava and Colin Schwarz In August of 2019 the Lodestar team was awarded a grant by the Ethereum Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to drive the creation of accessible, world class developer tooling for Ethereum 2.0 and

Light Client Task Force Call #2

Light Client Task Force Call #2

Authored by Colin Schwarz Light Client Task Force Call #2 Notes and Transcript Thanks to Cayman Nava for helping to proof read and edit! On December 4th, 2019, ChainSafe and the Lodestar team sponsored the second Light Client Task Force call. The purpose of these calls is to bring together