announcements
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
blockchain
Authored by Willem Olding An examination of Mina's lightweight non-consensus full nodes and Rust x Wasm ChainSafe is supremely honoured to have been awarded a grant to complete an implementation of the Mina Protocol in Rust. A big focus of our work will be implementing lightweight non-consensus full nodes which
cryptocurrency
Authored by Ben Adar An update from the last month of work on Forest Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. Filecoin is an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Check out this primer
polkadot
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho PINT is an index token representing a diversified basket of Polkadot ecosystem projects. PINT is an index token representing a diversified basket of Polkadot ecosystem projects. It is a StakerDAO community initiative being built by ChainSafe and Stateless Money. You can read more about
polkadot
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho The following is a cross-post from the PINT Substack on May 3, 2021. Stay tuned for the latest PINT developer blogs and project updates by subscribing to the PINT Substack newsletter! A quick reminder - PINT is an index token representing a diversified basket
ethereum
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
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
Authored by Ben Adar Achievement unlocked! Full sync to Polkadot, and other updates from the Gossamer team For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, formerly known as the Polkadot Runtime Environment. To learn more about what exactly that is, watch our introductory talk from
software-development
Authored by Elizabeth The following blog post was originally shared as a HackMD document, which was itself shared during Gossamer Tech Lead Elizabeth Binks's Polkadot Decoded talk on May 20th. In this post, Elizabeth briefly introduces Gossamer, before walking through how to build a custom chain with Gossamer, as well
cryptocurrency
Authored by Ben Adar The latest from ChainSafe's Filecoin implementation in Rust Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. Filecoin is an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Check out this primer by former
ethereum
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho 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
blockchain
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho And making public the ChainSafe Audits Github repo Faulty smart contracts could be the death knell of your blockchain projects. In an industry as young as blockchain's, a well-reviewed security audit of your smart contracts vs. none could mean the difference between complete trust
technology
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
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
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
filecoin
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho The latest from ChainSafe's Filecoin implementation in Rust Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. Filecoin is an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Check out this primer