web3
Web3 is a vision for the internet where users have more choice, control, and ownership. It's a new techno-social paradigm where data can be registered on blockchains, tokenized, or managed and accessed on decentralized, open-source, peer-to-peer networks. In 2023, crypto continues to draw in new developers, and it's easy to
blockchain
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
filecoin
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Announcing the alpha release of the Filecoin Rust node implementation Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such, a Rust
ethereum
Authored by Ben Adar Amphora merge interop; optimizing validators; paving the way for Ethereum Consensus light clients; and a call to action from our devs Lodestar is ChainSafe's Ethereum Consensus (Eth2) client built with TypeScript. Lodestar provides highly accessible tooling libraries that benefit the entire Ethereum ecosystem. Our libraries are
ethereum
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Building an Ethereum Consensus node crawler for the Ethereum Foundation "Night gathers and now my watch begins..." ChainSafe is pleased to announce the completion of an engagement with the Ethereum Foundation for the release of NodeWatch, an open source node explorer for Ethereum Consensus
ipfs
Authored by Colin Schwarz ChainSafe Files provides highly private, highly secure cloud storage that allows users to maintain full sovereignty over their data. Our product leverages IPFS and Filecoin to give users all the benefits of distributed storage and blockchain technology. Files abstracts away the complexities of these systems to
ethereum
Authored by Colin Schwarz Lodestar is ChainSafe's Eth2 client being built in TypeScript. Lodestar provides highly accessible tooling libraries that benefit the entire Eth2 ecosystem. Our libraries are written in idiomatic TypeScript, making them accessible to a broad swath of developers. Additionally, Lodestar will feature heavily in the Eth2 ecosystem
cosmos
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Commencing. What is Stargate? With the much anticipated upgrade to the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK) v0.40.0 aka "Stargate", the Cosmos Network will finally realize the original vision of an "Internet of Blockchains". The arrival of the first version of the Inter-Blockchain
blockchain
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho How ChainSafe is building tomorrow's interoperable multi-chain world Where ChainBridge fits into the interoperability puzzle ChainSafe CEO and co-founder Aidan Hyman summarizes the criticality of blockchain interoperability with this great quote: "If we are not able to get competitors to see value beyond zero
cosmos
Authored by Lerna What is Ethermint? It is a portmanteau word blending Ethereum and Tendermint together. But for most people, their grasp on the project - the what, the why, and the how - stops there. In order to truly understand how Ethermint works, it's important to also understand Cosmos
![CSCON[0] By the Numbers](https://miro.medium.com/1*s62lBtVfyAJk-lqEvAN2Wg.png)
bitcoin
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
ethereum
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
blockchain
Authored by Amer Ameen Since we published our last blog post, The future of Polkadot in Golang: Gossamer, we've made significant progress towards our goal of completing a preliminary implementation of the Polkadot Host and running a devnet with multiple block producing nodes. For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is
ethereum
Authored by Colin Schwarz Lodestar Medalla Update Co-Authored By Cayman Nava With the launch of the [[Medalla](https://github.com/goerli/medalla) ](https://github.com/goerli/medalla)testnet last week, the Lodestar team would like to update the community on our experience with Medalla, our current status, and plans for
ethereum
Authored by Colin Schwarz Lodestar Project Update The Lodestar team has been hard at work over the last few months. The following is another update on some of the most exciting developments. The biggest news is that we are now able to connect to public Eth2.0 testnets Topaz and
ethereum
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