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
blockchain
Authored by Amer Ameen Since we published our last blog post, The future of Polkadot in Golang: Gossamer, we've made significant progress towards our goal of completing a preliminary implementation of the Polkadot Host and running a devnet with multiple block producing nodes. For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is
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
blockchain
Authored by Ben Adar Forest Update A lot has been accomplished since we began this project nine months ago. The team is making great progress towards having a complete Filecoin node implementation written in Rust. During the first six months, the majority of our effort went towards building the Virtual
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
blockchain
Authored by Colin Schwarz A Multi-Chain Arbitrary Message Passing Standard Motivation ChainSafe is excited to announce the release of ChainBridge: a modular multi-directional blockchain bridge to allow data and value transfer between any number of blockchains. We believe that the future of blockchain technology is to allow all major networks
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 Amer Ameen The vision behind our implementation of the Polkadot Host. It's hard to believe that it's been almost a year since we started working on Gossamer. As they say, time flies when you're having fun! Building Gossamer has been a journey of significant learning & growth. Having the
filecoin
Authored by Amer Ameen ChainSafe is excited to announce that we were awarded a grant by Protocol Labs to build an additional implementation of Filecoin in Rust. We are thrilled to be contributing to the Filecoin ecosystem and grateful to be working so closely with Protocol Labs! What is Filecoin?
blockchain
Authored by Colin Schwarz ChainSafe is excited to announce that we have recently released Go-Schnorrkel, a pure Go implementation of the sr25519 signature algorithm (schnorr over ristretto25519). sr25519 is the default signing algorithm for substrate so the first implementation is in rust. Go-Schnorrkel was written by ChainSafe engineer Elizabeth and