decentralization

Introducing Decentralized Loot Boxes

Introducing Decentralized Loot Boxes

1. What are loot boxes? 2. What’s in the box? 3. How to open a loot box 4. Loot boxes: centralization vs decentralization 5. How do Decentralized Loot Boxes work? 6. How to use Decentralized Loot boxes 7. What can you do with loot boxes? 8. Best practices 9.

The Road Ahead for Ethereum Light Clients

The Road Ahead for Ethereum Light Clients

Authored by Phil Ngo New layer one blockchains promise a blazing fast decentralized future. But in reality, what we typically find is a set of sporadic non-committed users who connect to a single sponsored JSON RPC maintained by a foundation that connects to a small network of validator cartels. It's

Glow of the Canopy #1 🌱: Nourishing the Filecoin Virtual Machine with help from Forest 🌲

Glow of the Canopy #1 🌱: Nourishing the Filecoin Virtual Machine with help from Forest 🌲

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho An update from the Forest team on our latest progress 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

The Future of DAOs: Building Out The Organizational Primitives of web3

The Future of DAOs: Building Out The Organizational Primitives of web3

Authored by Georgios Gontikas An unprecedented amount of energy has entered the crypto space over the last 18 months. A dynamic that's naturally increased the number of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) while expanding their scope and purpose. At the same time, there are now more tools available to DAO participants,

A walk into the Forest

A walk into the Forest

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

Lodestar Update

Lodestar Update

Authored by Ben Adar Lodestar Update This article was co-authored by Cayman Nava & Colin Schwarz Last month, when the Medalla testnet launched, we learned a lot about where Lodestar was lacking, and where we needed focus. At the highest level, our takeaway is we need a stable client before moving

Forest Update

Forest Update

Authored by Ben Adar Forest Update A lot has been accomplished since we began this project nine months ago. The team is making great progress towards having a complete Filecoin node implementation written in Rust. During the first six months, the majority of our effort went towards building the Virtual