Lodestar
Lodestar's Pectra Split Vision Update
The Lodestar team proposes splitting the Pectra roadmap into two forks—PectrA and PectraB—to ensure mainnet stability, a smoother rollout, and clearer standards for feature readiness.
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Gaming
Your Crash Course on In-game Marketplaces: With Echelon and Parallel
ChainSafe Gaming, Echelon Prime, and Parallel Studios launched Sanctuary for Parallel in Dec 2023, an integrated marketplace for the web3 trading card game. We sought an open discussion with Echelon and Parallel Studios about the significance of what we're building.
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Retrospective Analysis of the Lodestar User Incentive Program
Authored by Phil Ngo On March 23, 2023, we announced a program to experiment with out-of-protocol incentives for solo stakers on Ethereum to switch to our consensus client, Lodestar. We did this because we wanted to add an additional incentive (beyond altruism) for independent node operators to consider trying Lodestar
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The Lodestar User Incentive Program: List of Winners & Dispute Period
The Lodestar User Incentive Program ended on August 23, 2023, @ 18:00 UTC. The goal of the program was to incentivize solo stakers to give Lodestar a try as their Ethereum consensus client. UPDATE: The dispute period concluded on October 3, 2023. Congratulations to all the 87 winners listed below
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The Lodestar User Incentive Program: Wrapping Up
Authored by Phil Ngo The Lodestar User Incentive Program came to a close on August 23, 2023, @ 18:00 UTC to incentivize solo stakers to give Lodestar a try as their Ethereum consensus client. From all of us at ChainSafe, thank you for trying out our consensus client in your
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Introducing Zipline Casper
ChainSafe is excited to announce the release of our prototype of Zipline Casper, a project developed under a grant from the Gnosis Builders program. Introduction Zipline Casper is an optimistic, trust-minimized, cross-chain, block header oracle. It allows anyone to take block headers from a chain using the Casper finality protocol
bridge
On the Future of ChainBridge
Introducing the chainbridge-core repo Since its inception, ChainSafe has been passionate about fostering open-source projects, contributing to the web3 ecosystem, and supporting the growth and development of innovative technologies. Among these projects, one that has left a mark in the space is ChainBridge, a modular and extensible bridging protocol that
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A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #5
Authored by Phil Ngo An update on ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus Welcome back to another edition of the "A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus" series, where we share updates on our progress in building Lodestar. Join us as we highlight recent milestones and our contributions to the Ethereum protocol
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Ethereum Testnets, Goerli ETH, and a Way Forward
Authored by Colin Adams Recently, a new testnet bridge was built, allowing for real-time pricing of ETH/GOERLI-ETH and opening up a market for these assets. The stated objective of this was to enhance the accessibility of GoETH for Ethereum developers. While it sounds promising in theory, we have been
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Instrumenting Erigon for Firehose
Authored by Colin Adams We're pleased to announce the successful completion of our consulting engagement with The Graph Foundation. The engagement involved instrumenting the Erigon Ethereum client for Firehose, an innovative solution that greatly increases indexing speeds at The Graph. First, some context The Graph is a decentralized protocol for
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Web3js — Upgrading Webpack 4 to Webpack 5
Authored by Alex Luu In web3js, we use Webpack to bundle our library to create a minified build for developers, often this build is used for developing apps and websites. A smaller build results in reduced load times and bandwidth usage, which is essential for providing a good user experience
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Introducing the Lodestar User Incentive Program
Authored by Phil Ngo If you're a current solo staker or want to be a staker on the Ethereum network, this incentive program is for you! UPDATE: The EthStaker community has contributed an additional $5k to the prize pool, bringing a total of prizes for the Lodestar Incentive Program from
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Lodestar v1.4.0: a Fully Production-Ready Ethereum Consensus Client
Authored by Phil Ngo Lodestar is proud to announce the launch of v1.4.0, a release so big that we had to do a blog post just to cover all the related updates and announcements. Let's dive in! Lodestar as a production-ready consensus client Since proposing our first mainnet
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Bringing Privacy To ENS: ChainSafe’s Proposed Integration Using Aztec Network
Authored by Jagrut Kosti ChainSafe Solutions is ChainSafe's internal applied research and development division. We combine our skill sets, knowledge, and constant research to deliver new perspectives, solve complex problems, and help the community drive innovations forward. The following blog post details our privacy proposal presented at the Ethereum Name
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Lodestar Releases v1.2.0
Authored by Phil Ngo The Lodestar team has launched v1.2.0, a jam-packed release full of bug fixes, optimizations, and performance improvements! This was a long-overdue upgrade, so let's unpack some of the significant changes in this release. Libp2p upgraded to v0.39.2 Lodestar had been running libp2p
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A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #4
An update on ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus Welcome to another edition of "A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus," a series where we give periodic updates on our Ethereum client. See our previous edition here. After a successful Goerli testnet merge, TTD for the merge has been specified. As it