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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Image Courtesy of CC Search. By Stan Levandovsky Intro As discussed in my previous article, Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide, one of the largest issues facing the Ethereum network today is scalability. The Ethereum network supports hundreds of decentralized applications and processes hundreds of thousands