announcements The Orbitor Public Gateway Orbitor is a new IPFS public gateway by ChainSafe, offering region-aware, low-latency access to decentralized content across South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Built for resilience, scale, and openness.
Infrastructure What Could Go Wrong? Sequencers are vital for Layer 2 rollups on Ethereum and beyond, but face risks from bugs, censorship, and stalls. Exploring modular sequencing can unlock safer, more scalable blockchain networks.
Filecoin FRC-0104: Making Filecoin nodes speak the same language FRC-0104: Common Node API, defines a standard API for Filecoin nodes using OpenRPC. It streamlines core methods across clients like Lotus and Forest, reducing guesswork and improving compatibility. With clear schemas and conformance testing, apps target one spec and work across compliant clients.
Infrastructure ChainSafe supports Ephemery: Ethereum’s ever-refreshing testnet This lightweight, resetting testnet gives you a clean slate every four weeks. It's perfect for testing staking setups, validator configurations, and smart contract deployments.
Lodestar Understanding Censorship Resistance on Ethereum Censorship resistance ensures Ethereum remains open and permissionless. This blog explores what censorship resistance is, why it matters, and the ongoing efforts to keep Ethereum decentralized.
How Does The Mina Protocol Achieve Consensus? Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho This post gives a brief overview of how the Mina Protocol maintains a shared and valid view of the state of the blockchain in the presence of multiple participating and potentially malicious peers. Target audience: You know the basic architecture of any popular blockchain
Gradients #3: An MVP For The Mina Community Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho An update from the Mina team on our progress from Q1 and Q2 2022 Mina-rs is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Mina Protocol, originally written in OCaml. Mina-rs, a tentatively named project, was awarded to ChainSafe through a community grant from the Mina Foundation
Ethereum The Importance of Client Diversity in Decentralized Networks It's no secret that ChainSafe is a proponent of diversity when it comes to client implementations. For some, the reason for this is clear. But for others, it's worth reiterating the benefits of client diversity and understanding the problem of relying too heavily on a single person, entity, or piece
Gradients #2: Some Rust Serialization Tricks With Serde Authored by Willem Olding An exploration of our methods with loose-typed deserialization Mina-rs is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Mina Protocol, originally written in OCaml. Mina-rs, a tentatively named project, was awarded to ChainSafe through a community grant from the Mina Foundation in May 2021. You can learn more from
Ethereum NodeWatch: The open source node explorer for Ethereum Consensus (Eth2) Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Building an Ethereum Consensus node crawler for the Ethereum Foundation "Night gathers and now my watch begins..." ChainSafe is pleased to announce the completion of an engagement with the Ethereum Foundation for the release of NodeWatch, an open source node explorer for Ethereum Consensus
Gradients #1: How Do Mina Nodes Communicate? Authored by Rahul Sharma A brief overview of the development of the bin_prot serialization library in Rust. In this post, we'll give a brief overview of the development of a serialization library that Mina protocol uses to communicate with one another. A decentralized peer to peer network such as
announcements ChainSafe announces acquisition of Node Factory Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Toronto-based blockchain R&D firm ChainSafe announces the acquisition of Croatian blockchain partner Node Factory. Toronto, Canada - July 23, 2021, ChainSafe is a leading blockchain development and engineering solutions firm encompassing top engineering talent from around the world. The company is architecting official
Infrastructure ChainSafe Joins League Of Entropy Production Drand Network 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
