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Web3.unity V2.6 adds Ramp and Hyperplay

Web3.unity V2.6 adds Ramp and Hyperplay

Web3.unity v2.6: in-game fiat integration via Ramp, Hyperplay wallet integration, build your own in-game marketplace, user-generated content (UGC).

The Lodestar Vision for the Pectra Roadmap

The Lodestar Vision for the Pectra Roadmap

the Lodestar team wanted to provide an update on how we envision proceeding with the Pectra roadmap.

Streamlined Onboarding With Ramp & ChainSafe Gaming

Streamlined Onboarding With Ramp & ChainSafe Gaming

As a part of the latest SDK update, the ChainSafe Gaming team recently integrated Ramp into web3.unity. With Ramp's help, we're making in-game transactions easier than ever by providing a link between traditional money (fiat) and cryptocurrency. What is Ramp? Ramp provides a powerful fiat-crypto toolkit to enable smooth

Embracing Innovation Through Hackathons

Embracing Innovation Through Hackathons

In Web3 development, innovation is critical to driving progress and empowering developers to build the next generation of decentralized applications (dApps). As we navigate this ever-evolving space, one concept is emerging as a game-changer to improve the developer experience and adoption: Web3.js plugins🧩 What's a web3 plugin🧩? The latest

A Complete Guide to EIP-3074

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.

Loot GDC: Exploring the Potential of Onchain LootBoxes

Loot GDC: Exploring the Potential of Onchain LootBoxes

A thorough retrospective on Loot GDC, our lootbox-inspired scavenger hunt quest across digital and physical space.

Investigating a Zcash Web Wallet

Investigating a Zcash Web Wallet

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.

Polkadot’s Solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem: Grandpa Protocol

Polkadot’s Solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem: Grandpa Protocol

Gossamer is a Golang implementation of the Polkadot host, and recently, we've been working on implementing the GRANDPA protocol in Go.

A Beginner's Guide to Web3.js

A Beginner's Guide to Web3.js

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!

Title banner: Mastering web3.js utilities. Essential tools for Ethereum development.

Mastering Web3.js utilities

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.

Text on a green and black field: ChainSafe's Marketplace Toolkit: Public Launch

The Grand Exchange: ChainSafe’s Marketplace Toolkit

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.

Building Onchain LootBoxes With Chainlink

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.

Introducing Lodestar Prover

Introducing Lodestar Prover

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

Web3.js Participates in the First Streaming Quadratic Funding Round

Web3.js Participates in the First Streaming Quadratic Funding Round

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

Your Crash Course on In-game Marketplaces: With Echelon and Parallel

Your Crash Course on In-game Marketplaces: With Echelon and Parallel

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.

Forks Aren't Always Safe

Forks Aren't Always Safe

Forking open-source smart contracts is risky. Developers often inherit existing bugs or create new ones through modifications, leading to major exploits like those seen with Grim Finance and Meter. Transparency, collaboration, and auditing new logic are crucial to prevent costly vulnerabilities.

Lodestar Proposals for Next Electra + Prague Fork

Lodestar Proposals for Next Electra + Prague Fork

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

Introducing Cypress-polkadot-wallet: End-to-End Testing for Your Dapp

Introducing Cypress-polkadot-wallet: End-to-End Testing for Your Dapp

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

Building an Alternative Polkadot Client: Gossamer 2023 Year-in-Review

Building an Alternative Polkadot Client: Gossamer 2023 Year-in-Review

A year-end update on Gossamer, ChainSafe's Go implementation of the Polkadot Host.

A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #6

A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #6

A year-end review of ChainSafe’s TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus.

Sanctuary: Building Echelon’s Next-gen NFT Marketplace

Sanctuary: Building Echelon’s Next-gen NFT Marketplace

ChainSafe Gaming was contracted by Echelon to develop, among other related systems, Sanctuary: the NFT marketplace that will feature tradable NFT assets from Parallel.

Improving Web3 UX: Deferred Transaction Inclusion

Improving Web3 UX: Deferred Transaction Inclusion

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: Unlocking Data Accessibility on the Filecoin Network

Forest: Unlocking Data Accessibility on the Filecoin Network

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

Case Study: Cryptopolis by CFX Gaming

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Case Study: Cryptopolis by CFX 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.

Introducing Decentralized Loot Boxes

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Introducing Decentralized Loot Boxes

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.