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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
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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
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Authored by Colin Schwarz In January of this year, ChainSafe was awarded a grant by the Web3 Foundation to build the second implementation of the Polkadot Runtime Environment (PRE). We call our implementation Gossamer and we have been working diligently to deliver it ever since. I'm writing this article to
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Authored by Colin Schwarz What is Web3? Why do We Need it? The internet has seen a lot of change since it became publicly available in 1991. The early internet lasted from the early 90s until the early 2000s and is sometimes referred to as Web 1.0. As many
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Written by Colin Schwarz, Marin Petrunić, Cayman Nava, Gregory Markou and Eric Tu Last week the Lodestar team was privileged to participate in the Eth2 interop week up in Skeleton Lake Muskoka. The week was a huge success for Lodestar, for the other implementation teams and
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Authored by Colin Schwarz In articles one, two and three of this series, I explored various features of the anticipated Ethereum update Eth 2.0. Article one gave an introduction to the update and offered general information about its structure and expected features. Article two, Part One and Part Two,
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Written by Colin Schwarz, Marin Petrunić, Cayman Nava and Gregory Markou The Lodestar team is excited to provide another update on our recent work. Over the last week, much of our team was in Berlin for blockchain week which has been productive, educational, and a whole
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Authored by Colin Schwarz August 1–15, 2019 The Lodestar team is excited to provide another update on our recent work. Over the last two weeks, we have made some important progress and have officially welcomed a new member to our team. Our newest member Eric Tu, previously working at
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Introduction Article One of this series outlined the history of the Ethereum network until the present day, and explained the major issues that will be addressed by the much anticipated Eth 2.0 update. Article two, Part One and Part Two, examined layer 2 scaling and
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Authored by Colin Schwarz The Lodestar team is excited to provide another update on our recent work. It has been about two months since our last update so we have a lot of exciting progress to share! Written by Colin Schwarz, Gregory Markou, Cayman Nava and Marin Petrunić Spec updates
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Image Courtesy of CC Search. By Stan Levandovsky Sharding Part One of this article explored some of the layer two ideas that have been investigated for scaling Ethereum and other blockchains. This second installment will discuss sharding, the layer one scaling solution that has been chosen
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Image Courtesy of CC Search. By Stan Levandovsky Intro As discussed in my previous article, Ethereum 2.0: A Complete Guide, one of the largest issues facing the Ethereum network today is scalability. The Ethereum network supports hundreds of decentralized applications and processes hundreds of thousands
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Authored by Elizabeth Hey everyone! At ChainSafe we've recently completed the Trie milestone of our Polkadot runtime environment. Check it out in our repo! In our previous article, we discussed some background for Polkadot and went over our timeline for the project. In this article, I'd like to explain the
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Introduction The Ethereum network is one of the largest and most widely used blockchain networks in the world. It is also one of the world's largest open source projects with go-ethereum being one of the largest projects on Github. Since its first release in 2015, Ethereum
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Authored by Gregory Written by Gregory Markou, edited by Colin Schwarz and Charles St.Louis "A star that is used to guide the course of a ship..." About a month ago, the Lodestar team articulated our plan to focus on building an in-browser ETH2.0 client as well as a
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Authored by Gregory Written By Gregory Markou, edited by Cayman and Colin Schwarz Since December we (ChainSafe) have made great headway in building our Javascript/Typescript ETH2.0 client. Early on, the process was bumpy. The spec was changing rapidly (pre-release), we still didn't know what the design of the