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Instrumenting Erigon for Firehose

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Instrumenting Erigon for Firehose

Authored by Colin Adams We're pleased to announce the successful completion of our consulting engagement with The Graph Foundation. The engagement involved instrumenting the Erigon Ethereum client for Firehose, an innovative solution that greatly increases indexing speeds at The Graph. First, some context The Graph is a decentralized protocol for

Web3js — Upgrading Webpack 4 to Webpack 5

Web3js — Upgrading Webpack 4 to Webpack 5

Authored by Alex Luu In web3js, we use Webpack to bundle our library to create a minified build for developers, often this build is used for developing apps and websites. A smaller build results in reduced load times and bandwidth usage, which is essential for providing a good user experience

Introducing the Lodestar User Incentive Program

Introducing the Lodestar User Incentive Program

Authored by Phil Ngo If you're a current solo staker or want to be a staker on the Ethereum network, this incentive program is for you! UPDATE: The EthStaker community has contributed an additional $5k to the prize pool, bringing a total of prizes for the Lodestar Incentive Program from

Developer's guide: application-specific elliptic curves

Developer's guide: application-specific elliptic curves

This post discusses different methods of constructing elliptic curves. It also covers some potential applications and practical considerations for developing curves for specific uses.

Building a Polywrap SDK Wrapper for Substrate and Polkadot

Building a Polywrap SDK Wrapper for Substrate and Polkadot

Authored by Colin Adams Last year, ChainSafe received a co-sponsored grant from Polywrap and the Web3 Foundation to develop a Substrate "wrapper." That is, a universal SDK powered by Polywrap's technology that aims to significantly improve the experience of building on Polkadot and Substrate. Background Polywrap is the technology behind

Elliptic curves cheat sheet

Elliptic curves cheat sheet

This cheat sheet provides a brief overview of the parameters that define an elliptic curve and offers a somewhat opinionated classification of existing elliptic curves.

Open Worlds: Decentralizing the web3.unity Gaming SDK

Open Worlds: Decentralizing the web3.unity Gaming SDK

Making Unity NFT games faster, more scalable, and more dependable In keeping with our values, we're taking the first steps toward a more decentralized and open-source SDK with the launch of web3.unity v2.0. This is a new chapter for ChainSafe Gaming, and we're excited to share all the

Multix - A Simple Interface to Manage Complex Multisigs on Polkadot

Multix - A Simple Interface to Manage Complex Multisigs on Polkadot

Authored by Thibaut Sardan Multi-signature accounts have been around since the early days of cryptocurrency. They're used to manage billions in assets securely. On Polkadot, Kusama, and all their parachains, it's also been possible to leverage the power of multi-signature accounts from day one. While all the lego pieces are

Lodestar v1.4.0: a Fully Production-Ready Ethereum Consensus Client

Lodestar v1.4.0: a Fully Production-Ready Ethereum Consensus Client

Authored by Phil Ngo Lodestar is proud to announce the launch of v1.4.0, a release so big that we had to do a blog post just to cover all the related updates and announcements. Let's dive in! Lodestar as a production-ready consensus client Since proposing our first mainnet

Onchain Game Mechanics: The Toshimon Story

Onchain Game Mechanics: The Toshimon Story

Full-stack solution providers that are experienced in multiple disciplines, languages, and blockchain ecosystems are crucial as development partners.

Bringing Privacy To ENS: ChainSafe’s Proposed Integration Using Aztec Network

Bringing Privacy To ENS: ChainSafe’s Proposed Integration Using Aztec Network

Authored by Jagrut Kosti ChainSafe Solutions is ChainSafe's internal applied research and development division. We combine our skill sets, knowledge, and constant research to deliver new perspectives, solve complex problems, and help the community drive innovations forward. The following blog post details our privacy proposal presented at the Ethereum Name

Building an Alternative Polkadot Client: Gossamer 2022 Year-in-Review

Building an Alternative Polkadot Client: Gossamer 2022 Year-in-Review

It's been a busy year for team Gossamer! We started with an audit focused on Gossamer's consensus capabilities (i.e., the BABE block production algorithm and the GRANDPA block finalization algorithm) but that also uncovered areas for improvement in Gossamer's RPC layer and SCALE codec implementation. At the end of

Implementing Social Logins To web3.unity WebGL Builds

Implementing Social Logins To web3.unity WebGL Builds

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho How to import and use social logins with WebGL builds Why should we use social logins? Some developers feel that having social logins (e.g. Google, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, Discord, etc.) would be a much better entrance system for users getting into the blockchain

Announcing Our Hackathon Winners

Announcing Our Hackathon Winners

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Hack with ChainSafe Gaming's web3.unity SDK and get rewarded for buidling blockchain NFT games! With the bear market in full bloom, it's heartening to see the blockchain gaming community carry on hacking, building, and pioneering. This fall season has been full of hackathons

Lodestar Releases v1.2.0

Lodestar Releases v1.2.0

Authored by Phil Ngo The Lodestar team has launched v1.2.0, a jam-packed release full of bug fixes, optimizations, and performance improvements! This was a long-overdue upgrade, so let's unpack some of the significant changes in this release. Libp2p upgraded to v0.39.2 Lodestar had been running libp2p

Privacy: The Bedrock Of Freedom

Privacy: The Bedrock Of Freedom

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho "You're not an island. When you don't protect your own communications, it's not just about you. You're not communicating with yourself, you're communicating with other people. You're exposing all of those other people. If you assess that they're not at risk, are you sure

Demoing web3.unity with the “Chicken Demo”

Demoing web3.unity with the “Chicken Demo”

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Grasp the powers of ChainSafe Gaming's web3.unity SDK with this showcase This blog post was written by web3.unity SDK dev @Sneakzttv. He's previously released this as a video, so if you prefer watching, check it out here! Need help getting into the

Glow of the Canopy #3: Sprucing Up

Glow of the Canopy #3: Sprucing Up

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho An update from the Forest team on our progress from Q3 2022 Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such,

How Does The Mina Protocol Achieve Consensus?

How Does The Mina Protocol Achieve Consensus?

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho This post gives a brief overview of how the Mina Protocol maintains a shared and valid view of the state of the blockchain in the presence of multiple participating and potentially malicious peers. Target audience: You know the basic architecture of any popular blockchain

NFT Minting And Marketplace For web3.unity

NFT Minting And Marketplace For web3.unity

Authored by Ben Adar Major update for ChainSafe Gaming's SDK, web3.unity web3.unity is an open-source gaming SDK developed by ChainSafe Gaming that connects games built with Unity to the blockchain. The library currently supports games built for web browsers (WebGL), iOS/Android mobile, and desktop. web3.unity is

Introducing Post-quantum Security to Signatures on Substrate

Introducing Post-quantum Security to Signatures on Substrate

ChainSafe worked with xx Network to bring post-quantum security to Substrate chains, developing a Rust W-OTS+ library, Substrate pallet, and Placard generation for quantum-resistant, privacy-focused blockchain tech.

Multi-Party Computation: The next generation of crypto security

Multi-Party Computation: The next generation of crypto security

Multi-party computation enables multiple parties to carry out a distributed computation of their secret inputs without revealing anything but the output.

Introducing Post-quantum Security to Signatures on Substrate

Introducing Post-quantum Security to Signatures on Substrate

Authored by Elizabeth ChainSafe is proud to announce the completion of a collaboration with xx network, one of the world's first quantum-resistant and privacy-focused blockchain ecosystems. A few months back, xx network enlisted our help to **** implement Winternitz One Time Signatures (W-OTS+) for Substrate-based chains and automated Placards generation. The

A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #4

A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus #4

An update on ChainSafe's TypeScript implementation of Ethereum Consensus Welcome to another edition of "A Lodestar for Ethereum Consensus," a series where we give periodic updates on our Ethereum client. See our previous edition here. After a successful Goerli testnet merge, TTD for the merge has been specified. As it

Web3.js Repository Migration Announcement

Web3.js Repository Migration Announcement

Authored by Colin Adams As part of our collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation (EF), we're migrating the web3.js repository to a new repo. ChainSafe will continue to be solely responsible for the maintenance and improvement of web3.js. With 500,000+ weekly downloads, web3.js is one of Ethereum's