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Lodestar Releases Light Client Prototype!

Lodestar Releases Light Client Prototype!

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

The Liftoff of Filecoin Secondary Retrieval Markets

The Liftoff of Filecoin Secondary Retrieval Markets

Authored by David Ansermino ChainSafe is excited to announce that we have been working to implement a discovery mechanism to help enable secondary retrieval markets for the Filecoin network, through the support of Protocol Labs. Overview The Filecoin network rewards miners for their participation in storing and retrieving files. Within

Ethermint Testnet to Launch

Ethermint Testnet to Launch

Authored by Colin Schwarz Ethermint's First Public Testnet will Launch November 26th! ChainSafe is extremely excited to announce that we will launch the first public Ethermint testnet this Thursday, November 26th! ChainSafe will release the endpoints for users to connect to this testnet via Twitter at 10am EST this Thursday!

Ethermint Supports Web3 Personal API

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Ethermint Supports Web3 Personal API

Authored by Colin Schwarz Background ChainSafe is happy to announce that we have completed another deliverable from our current grant from the ICF to bring Ethermint into production as a full Cosmos chain. We wanted to take this opportunity to explain our work on the Web3 Personal API and why

Lodestar Medalla Update

Lodestar Medalla Update

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

Aragon Chain Development Update

Authored by Colin Schwarz Ethermint updates and additions complete Much of the early work on Aragon Chain consisted of updating Ethermint as well as adding additional functionality that enabled the software to support Aragon's current apps and contracts. This included core Cosmos upgrades, SDK upgrades and adding simulations for SDK

Lodestar Project Update

Lodestar Project Update

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

ChainSafe Building ChainBridge

ChainSafe Building ChainBridge

Authored by Colin Schwarz A Multi-Chain Arbitrary Message Passing Standard Motivation ChainSafe is excited to announce the release of ChainBridge: a modular multi-directional blockchain bridge to allow data and value transfer between any number of blockchains. We believe that the future of blockchain technology is to allow all major networks

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

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

Light Client Task Force Call #1

Light Client Task Force Call #1

Authored by Colin Schwarz Light Client Task Force Call #1 Notes and Transcript On November 4th, 2019, ChainSafe and the Lodestar team sponsored the first ever Light Client Task Force call. The purpose of the call was to bring together individuals who are interested in Eth2.0 light clients and

Lodestar Post Devcon Update

Lodestar Post Devcon Update

Authored by Colin Schwarz Written by Colin Schwarz and Cayman Nava Introduction Devcon is always an exciting time for the Ethereum community, and Devcon 5 was no exception. This year's conference was especially busy and productive for the Lodestar team. Four out of five of our full-time team members were

Building the Future with Gossamer

Building the Future with Gossamer

Authored by Colin Schwarz In January of this year, ChainSafe was awarded a grant by the Web3 Foundation to build the second implementation of the Polkadot Runtime Environment (PRE). We call our implementation Gossamer and we have been working diligently to deliver it ever since. I'm writing this article to

Lodestar Post-Interop Update

Lodestar Post-Interop Update

Authored by Colin Schwarz Written by Colin Schwarz, Marin Petrunić, Cayman Nava, Gregory Markou and Eric Tu Last week the Lodestar team was privileged to participate in the Eth2 interop week up in Skeleton Lake Muskoka. The week was a huge success for Lodestar, for the other implementation teams and

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide. Ewasm.

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide. Ewasm.

Authored by Colin Schwarz In articles one, two and three of this series, I explored various features of the anticipated Ethereum update Eth 2.0. Article one gave an introduction to the update and offered general information about its structure and expected features. Article two, Part One and Part Two,

Lodestar Update

Lodestar Update

Authored by Colin Schwarz Written by Colin Schwarz, Marin Petrunić, Cayman Nava and Gregory Markou The Lodestar team is excited to provide another update on our recent work. Over the last week, much of our team was in Berlin for blockchain week which has been productive, educational, and a whole

Lodestar Update

Lodestar Update

Authored by Colin Schwarz August 1–15, 2019 The Lodestar team is excited to provide another update on our recent work. Over the last two weeks, we have made some important progress and have officially welcomed a new member to our team. Our newest member Eric Tu, previously working at

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide. Casper and the Beacon Chain.

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide. Casper and the Beacon Chain.

Authored by Colin Schwarz Introduction Article One of this series outlined the history of the Ethereum network until the present day, and explained the major issues that will be addressed by the much anticipated Eth 2.0 update. Article two, Part One and Part Two, examined layer 2 scaling and

Lodestar Updates

Lodestar Updates

Authored by Colin Schwarz The Lodestar team is excited to provide another update on our recent work. It has been about two months since our last update so we have a lot of exciting progress to share! Written by Colin Schwarz, Gregory Markou, Cayman Nava and Marin Petrunić Spec updates

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide. Scaling Ethereum — Part Two: Sharding.

Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide. Scaling Ethereum — Part Two: Sharding.

Authored by Colin Schwarz Image Courtesy of CC Search. By Stan Levandovsky Sharding Part One of this article explored some of the layer two ideas that have been investigated for scaling Ethereum and other blockchains. This second installment will discuss sharding, the layer one scaling solution that has been chosen

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