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Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide

Authored by Colin Schwarz Image Courtesy of CC Search. By Stan Levandovsky Intro As discussed in my previous article, Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide, one of the largest issues facing the Ethereum network today is scalability. The Ethereum network supports hundreds of decentralized applications and processes hundreds of thousands

Gossamer Update #1: Merkle-Patricia Trie

Gossamer Update #1: Merkle-Patricia Trie

Authored by Elizabeth Hey everyone! At ChainSafe we've recently completed the Trie milestone of our Polkadot runtime environment. Check it out in our repo! In our previous article, we discussed some background for Polkadot and went over our timeline for the project. In this article, I'd like to explain the

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide

Authored by Colin Schwarz Introduction The Ethereum network is one of the largest and most widely used blockchain networks in the world. It is also one of the world's largest open source projects with go-ethereum being one of the largest projects on Github. Since its first release in 2015, Ethereum

Lodestar: Roadmap Updates

Lodestar: Roadmap Updates

Authored by Gregory Written by Gregory Markou, edited by Colin Schwarz and Charles St.Louis "A star that is used to guide the course of a ship..." About a month ago, the Lodestar team articulated our plan to focus on building an in-browser ETH2.0 client as well as a

Future Vision for Lodestar

Authored by Gregory Written By Gregory Markou, edited by Cayman and Colin Schwarz Since December we (ChainSafe) have made great headway in building our Javascript/Typescript ETH2.0 client. Early on, the process was bumpy. The spec was changing rapidly (pre-release), we still didn't know what the design of the

ChainSafe Systems: Introducing Gossamer, Update #0

ChainSafe Systems: Introducing Gossamer, Update #0

Authored by Elizabeth gossamer: filaments from a web that was spun by a spider Hello from ChainSafe Systems! As you may have heard, we recently received a grant to implement the Polkadot Runtime Environment (PRE) in Go. We've chosen the name Gossamer for our implementation. Gossamer is the fine material

Lodestar Bi-weekly Update #3

Authored by Mikerah ChainSafe Systems' bi-weekly update on the development of our JavaScript/TypeScript ETH2.0 client, Lodestar. This update was written by Mikerah & Gregory. We have had TONS of progress over the past 2 weeks. We are excited to share the high level details with the community. As always,