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Gossamer Update: September 2020

Gossamer Update: September 2020

Authored by Edward Mack Since we published our last blog post, Gossamer Update: August 2020, we've continued making progress towards our goal of completing implementation of the Polkadot Host. For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, formerly known as the Polkadot Runtime Environment. To

Lodestar Update

Lodestar Update

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

ChainSafe Receives Grant from EF for Web3JS!

ChainSafe Receives Grant from EF for Web3JS!

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

ChainSafe Joins League Of Entropy Production Drand Network

ChainSafe Joins League Of Entropy Production Drand Network

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

Gossamer Update: August 2020

Gossamer Update: August 2020

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

Lodestar Medalla Update

Lodestar Medalla Update

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

Forest Update

Forest Update

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