decentralization
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
ethereum
Authored by Colin Schwarz This article was co-authored by Ben Hyman. ChainSafe is proud to announce that we have received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to continue the maintenance and further development of Web3JS. We are excited to consolidate, maintain and upgrade, the codebase of this important library. Throughout
cryptocurrency
Authored by Ben Adar Production Drand Network We are proud to announce that ChainSafe has joined the League of Entropy (LoE) network! Fellow participants include Cloudflare, C4DT, EPFL, Emerald Onion, Ethereum Foundation, IC3, Kudelski Security, Protocol Labs, PTisp, UCL, University of Chile and more to come! What is Drand? Drand
ethereum
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
ethereum
Authored by Ben Adar Lodestar update The last few months have been very busy for the Lodestar team. We have made great leaps in the project and are getting close to being able to remain connected to public testnets (most recently Altona). The majority of our focus in the last
blockchain
Authored by Ben Adar ChainSafe Awarded Second Ethermint Grant ChainSafe is excited to announce that we have received another grant from the Interchain Foundation to finish the development and testing of a live Ethermint Zone. We are extremely eager to provide the community with a productionized version of this new
aragon
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
eth2
Authored by Cayman Nava With the Eth2 launch anticipated in a few months, we want to share some key details of staking that every validator should know before signing up. 1. If you run vetted validator software, you likely won't have to worry about being "slashed" No one wants to
ethereum
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
ethereum
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
blockchain
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
ethereum
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
blockchain
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
ethereum
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
blockchain
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
blockchain
Authored by Cayman Nava At ChainSafe, we've been hard at work thinking about the research problems of eth2 light clients and the problems plaguing eth1 light clients. We think light client tech holds great promise to improve blockchain UX while maintaining a rock-solid foundation of security, but it still needs