loot box
1. What are loot boxes? 2. What’s in the box? 3. How to open a loot box 4. Loot boxes: centralization vs decentralization 5. How do Decentralized Loot Boxes work? 6. How to use Decentralized Loot boxes 7. What can you do with loot boxes? 8. Best practices 9.
blockchain-game
“Thanks to the Unity SDK plugin from ChainSafe, the blockchain features of our game were easily implemented. The SDK gave us everything we needed to achieve our goals.” - Loet de Hooge, co-founder, Fabwelt
privacy
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho "You're not an island. When you don't protect your own communications, it's not just about you. You're not communicating with yourself, you're communicating with other people. You're exposing all of those other people. If you assess that they're not at risk, are you sure
mina
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
products
We would like to make our community aware of an issue that was recently discovered relating to the ChainBridge smart contracts. What happened? ChainSafe recently contracted Haechi to conduct an audit on recent upgrades made to the ChainBridge smart contracts. During the audit, it was discovered that the ERC-721 Handler
mina
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
filecoin
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho An update from the Forest team on our latest progress Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such, a Rust
polkadot
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Trail of Bits completes audit of the Schnorrkel library implemented in Go In August 2021, ChainSafe engaged with Trail of Bits to conduct an independent audit of ChainSafe's implementation of Web3 Foundation's Schnorrkel cryptographic signature library in Golang (‘go-schnorrkel''). The original Schnorrkel library is
products
Authored by Kwame Bryan Check out our previous Gaming Lifehack series blog post on NFT multicalls here. The ChainSafe Gaming SDK is an open-source library that connects games built with the Unity game development engine to the blockchain. The library currently supports WebGL and iOS/Android (experimental), and is compatible
npm
Authored by Nazar Hussain JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world, and as such, it gets a lot of use in open source projects. This popularity has brought more attention from bad actors in the Javascript open-source ecosystem, and hence the ecosystem is more at risk simply
ethereum
Authored by Phil Ngo Web3.js could be considered one of Et[[here](https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js)](https://medium.com/chainsafe-systems/chainsafe-receives-grant-from-ef-for-web3js-9e4376f5f36a)um's most recognizable Javascript tools and libraries. It is a collection of modules that allow you to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node using
filecoin
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Announcing the alpha release of the Filecoin Rust node implementation Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such, a Rust
polkadot
Authored by Dan Forbes Exploring SCALE refactors in Go, chain sync algorithms, and peer scoring in Gossamer For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer 🕸 ️ is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, formerly known as the Polkadot Runtime Environment. To learn more about what exactly that is, watch our introductory talk from
ethereum
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
ethereum
Authored by Colin Schwarz Lodestar is ChainSafe's Eth2 client being built in TypeScript. Lodestar provides highly accessible tooling libraries that benefit the entire Eth2 ecosystem. Our libraries are written in idiomatic TypeScript, making them accessible to a broad swath of developers. Additionally, Lodestar will feature heavily in the Eth2 ecosystem
blockchain
Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Gitcoin Grants will be decentralizing with the help of ChainSafe, Scopelift, and the entire team behind the Decentralize Gitcoin Workstream. ChainSafe is proud to announce we have been enlisted by the Gitcoin team to research and build the spec for a fully distributed architecture