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A Complete Guide to EIP-3074

EIP-3074 was just approved for inclusion in the next hard fork. This change will significantly alter how users interact on EVM chains, enhance wallet UX, and, ultimately, make Ethereum more accessible.

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Loot GDC: Exploring the Potential of Onchain LootBoxes

A thorough retrospective on Loot GDC, our lootbox-inspired scavenger hunt quest across digital and physical space.

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Polkadot’s Solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem: Grandpa Protocol

Gossamer is a Golang implementation of the Polkadot host, and recently, we've been working on implementing the GRANDPA protocol in Go.

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A Beginner's Guide to Web3.js

Curious about the world of web3 development? If you're a beginner coder or a web developer eager to explore, this friendly guide is your starting point for the basics of Ethereum development. We'll keep it simple, focusing on the essentials, with web3.js as your gateway into Ethereum. Let's go!

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Mastering Web3.js utilities

The web3.js utilities package is one of the most widely used packages of the web3.js library (~920k downloads a month). If you’re developing a dApp or honing your skills, this article will demonstrate how to use these functions to their full potential.

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Introducing Cypress-polkadot-wallet: End-to-End Testing for Your Dapp

As part of our last treasury proposal, the Multix team has committed to building a tool to help developers test their Dapps with automated end-to-end testing. We’re happy to announce the tool is ready for use! It’s called Cypress-polkadot-wallet, and here’s a quick guide on what it

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The State of Light Clients in Ethereum

At Lodestar, we've been long-time proponents of light clients, software that connects to full nodes to interact with the blockchain. As a resource-friendly and trustless alternative to running your own full node, light clients reduce the need to trust third parties. Although they don't confirm blocks, they're valuable in terms

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Exploring the Potential of MetaMask Snaps

The MetaMask Snaps framework—a system for extending the capabilities of MetaMask—has made a splash since its open beta launch. Following the release, we hosted a Twitter Spaces that brought together an illustrious Snaps lineup, including Dan Forbes, Technical Product Manager at ChainSafe, Christian Montoya, Senior Product Manager at

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What’s a Dynamic NFT?

A dynamic NFT (dNFT) is a kind of living Non-Fungible Token (NFT) that uses embedded smart contract instructions to change its metadata under certain conditions. This ability to change with game progress pushes use cases beyond art, music, and other "static" media. Alongside semi-fungible tokens, dNFTs have the potential to

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Creating a Wallet Application Using web3.js v4 and ReactJS

Web3.js is a collection of modules that allow you to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node using HTTP, IPC, or WebSocket. The Ethereum Foundation awarded ChainSafe a grant in the Fall of 2020 to maintain and modernize web3.js, which began with continuing to support v1.x

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The Definitive Guide to Web3 Gaming

Let's talk about blockchain games Now is a crucial moment for web3 adoption in the game industry. Blockchain gaming's boisterous opening salvo turned the heads of almost every gamer with its most unprecedented feature: earning cryptocurrency. Games that pay you to play seem too good to be true. They are,

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An Introduction to Semi-Fungible Tokens

SFT quick facts * Semi-fungible tokens (SFTs) are a token class built using the ERC-1155 standard * SFTs are suited for in-game items that require multiples copies * Batch processing allows for multiple sales/purchases within a single transaction * SFTs are a cost-effective and scalable alternative to NFTs for in-game economies What is

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What to Expect From TypeScript 5.0

Authored by Nazar Hussain Until now, the most widely used Typescript version has been 4.9.5 , but that's changed with newer, recently releasedTypescript 5.0. With TypeScript 5.0 comes many new features, along with the stated intent to make TypeScript smaller, simpler, and faster. The details of what

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A Comprehensive Guide to Smart Contract Audits [2023]

A smart contract is simply a program that runs on a blockchain. It's a collection of code (functions) and data (state) that resides at a specific address. The increasing number of these programs, and the growing amount of capital they control, make their security more important than ever. To that

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Documenting TypeScript, Finding the Right Tools for Your Project

Authored by Nazar Hussain TypeScript (TS) is becoming increasingly popular in the JavaScript (JS) ecosystem. Many popular libraries, like LibP2P, DiscordJS, Node-Postgres, and Selenium Driver, have already started rewriting their JavaScript codebase in TypeScript, with many others following their lead. As the use of TypeScript grows, so does the need

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How to Become a Web3 Developer [2023 Roadmap]

Web3 is a vision for the internet where users have more choice, control, and ownership. It's a new techno-social paradigm where data can be registered on blockchains, tokenized, or managed and accessed on decentralized, open-source, peer-to-peer networks. In 2023, crypto continues to draw in new developers, and it's easy to