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.
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.
A thorough retrospective on Loot GDC, our lootbox-inspired scavenger hunt quest across digital and physical space.
ChainSafe R&D has been investigating the feasibility of a Zcash web wallet. Such a wallet would allow easy onboarding to Zcash. It is also the first step in building a browser extension wallet or a MetaMask snap.
Gossamer is a Golang implementation of the Polkadot host, and recently, we've been working on implementing the GRANDPA protocol in Go.
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!
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.
After months of dedicated engineering work, the quality of tooling used by the Echelon Prime Foundation and Parallel is now available for all game builders in our web3.unity SDK.
ChainSafe secured a grant from Chainlink, leveraging their Verifiable Random Function (VRF) tool to introduce a new level of integrity and trust to onchain LootBoxes.
We're excited to introduce the latest addition to our suite—Lodestar Prover, a tool for connecting consensus and execution clients, facilitating seamless and secure blockchain integrations. A disconnect for dApps? Within the Ethereum ecosystem, dApps have historically faced a challenge in establishing smooth interactions with execution clients. They depended heavily
Exciting news! Web3.js has joined the pilot program to participate in the first Streaming Quadratic Funding Round! This collaborative effort by Geo Web, Superfluid, and Gitcoin's Allo Protocol represents a novel approach to funding public goods. By participating in this first-ever SQF round, web3.js stands to gain a
ChainSafe Gaming, Echelon Prime, and Parallel Studios launched Sanctuary for Parallel in Dec 2023, an integrated marketplace for the web3 trading card game. We sought an open discussion with Echelon and Parallel Studios about the significance of what we're building.
With the implementation of Deneb/Cancun almost complete, client teams were asked to provide suggestions on inclusions to the next Electra/Prague hard fork. This blog post is to outline the combined consensus of Lodestar’s main contributors, inspired by the writings of Paradigm’s Reth team and commendation of
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
A year-end update on Gossamer, ChainSafe's Go implementation of the Polkadot Host.
A year-end review of ChainSafe’s TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus.
ChainSafe Gaming was contracted by Echelon to develop, among other related systems, Sanctuary: the NFT marketplace that will feature tradable NFT assets from Parallel.
R&D
Waiting for transaction inclusion doesn't have to mean, halt and wait. Let's set the stage a bit... I'm a liquidity provider (LP) for a DeFi protocol and receive LP tokens. I can stake those LP tokens and receive bonus rewards ("farming"), which is highly appealing and a common practice in
Forest is making waves in the Filecoin ecosystem with efforts to enhance data accessibility on the blockchain. Forest is a Filecoin client written in Rust. Built by ChainSafe with support from Protocol Labs, some of Forest’s new features are a case study on how diversity of thought and implementation
blockchain-gaming
"ChainSafe's SDK gave us the tools to overcome our biggest challenges. The support and continuous updates made the integration seamless." - Leroy ter Braak, Co-founder, CFX Gaming.
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.
Lodestar
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
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
Guides
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
Gaming
Co-written by Martin Maurer Designing a meta-game that spans multiple autonomous worlds may seem daunting to a traditional game designer, but it's not impossible. In fact, it's an exciting opportunity to explore new possibilities and create a truly unique gaming experience. 🌏 An autonomous world is a persistent digital world that
polkadot
Authored by Thibaut Sardan Multix is a simple interface for managing multisigs. Create multisigs in a few simple steps, add and visualize proxies associated with them, craft, review, or approve multisig transactions. You can even view multisigs you are not part of, thanks to the view-only mode. In a nutshell,
ethereum
Authored by Phil Ngo On March 23, 2023, we announced a program to experiment with out-of-protocol incentives for solo stakers on Ethereum to switch to our consensus client, Lodestar. We did this because we wanted to add an additional incentive (beyond altruism) for independent node operators to consider trying Lodestar
game-development
Version 2.5 of ChainSafe Gaming's web3.unity SDK is live! This is a big one - our latest web3.unity update gives game developers the power to alleviate one of web3 gaming's most daunting challenges: player onboarding. By working with Web3Auth and Gelato, we've given game devs the tools
Gaming
All for the love of the game, modders come together to build to their heart's desires. Co-authored by Martin Maurer Modding video games have been a source of entertainment since the early 1980s with the advent of Castle Smurfenstein - a modded version of Castle Wolfenstein that replaces the enemy
ethereum
The Lodestar User Incentive Program ended on August 23, 2023, @ 18:00 UTC. The goal of the program was to incentivize solo stakers to give Lodestar a try as their Ethereum consensus client. UPDATE: The dispute period concluded on October 3, 2023. Congratulations to all the 87 winners listed below
ethereum
Authored by Phil Ngo The Lodestar User Incentive Program came to a close on August 23, 2023, @ 18:00 UTC to incentivize solo stakers to give Lodestar a try as their Ethereum consensus client. From all of us at ChainSafe, thank you for trying out our consensus client in your
ethereum
ChainSafe is excited to announce the release of our prototype of Zipline Casper, a project developed under a grant from the Gnosis Builders program. Introduction Zipline Casper is an optimistic, trust-minimized, cross-chain, block header oracle. It allows anyone to take block headers from a chain using the Casper finality protocol
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