marketplace
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.
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Gaming
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.
Lodestar
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
web3js
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
Gaming
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.
Lodestar
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
Guides
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
Gossamer
Building an Alternative Polkadot Client: Gossamer 2023 Year-in-Review
A year-end update on Gossamer, ChainSafe's Go implementation of the Polkadot Host.
Lodestar
A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #6
A year-end review of ChainSafe’s TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus.
Gaming
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.
R&D
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 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
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.
loot box
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.
Lodestar
The State of Light Clients in Ethereum
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
Case Study: Arsenal by Fabwelt
“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