polkadot

Gossamer: Into the Polkadot-verse Pt. 4

Gossamer: Into the Polkadot-verse Pt. 4

Authored by Dan Forbes For anyone unfamiliar, Gossamer is a Go implementation of the Polkadot Host. Once ready, Gossamer will increase Polkadot client diversity and contribute to the resilience and security of the network. In the future, we hope it will also foster growth by providing a modular development framework

Polkadot-js Extension: New Privacy Feature

Polkadot-js Extension: New Privacy Feature

Authored by Thibaut Sardan The Polkadot-js extension is a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome dedicated to managing accounts for Substrate-based chains, including Polkadot, Kusama, and all their parachains. While the extension focuses on stability and mostly gets maintenance releases, the community also regularly makes improvements. To that end, Chainsafe

The ChainSafe Ambassador Program: ChainSages

The ChainSafe Ambassador Program: ChainSages

Authored by Colin Adams _tl;dr: ChainSafe continues to recruit community members familiar with our tools to engage and share their knowledge with the next wave of web3 developers_🧙 What's a Sage? ChainSages are people we've identified as helpful and knowledgeable within our community. Sages are much more than your

ChainSafe Receives a Web3 Foundation Grant for SubstrateSnap

ChainSafe Receives a Web3 Foundation Grant for SubstrateSnap

Authored by Colin Adams We're delighted to announce that ChainSafe has received another grant from the Web3 Foundation (W3F). This time to complete a rewrite of SubstrateSnap, an experimental plugin that extends the functionality of MetaMask to Polkadot and other Substrate-based chains. What's a snap? For context, a "snap" is

Unlocking Web3 Gaming with Moonbeam and the ChainSafe Gaming SDK

Unlocking Web3 Gaming with Moonbeam and the ChainSafe Gaming SDK

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho A spotlight on the web3.unity library from the Polkadot ecosystem As ambassadors to the multi-chain vision, ChainSafe is proud to officially recognize our long-term collaboration with Moonbeam and our Gaming SDK, web3.unity. Since our launch announcement, the Moonbeam network has seen out-of-the-box

UI Demo: RMRK NFTs with the Filecoin-Substrate Bridge

UI Demo: RMRK NFTs with the Filecoin-Substrate Bridge

Authored by Thibaut Sardan ChainSafe has been collaborating with the Filecoin Foundation to develop a Filecoin-Substrate Bridge (FSB) for a few months now. This is a project intended to extend the functionality of Filecoin, enabling developers to build features into a Substrate chain that are dependent on Filecoin state. The

Go-Schnorrkel is Audited

Go-Schnorrkel is Audited

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Trail of Bits completes audit of the Schnorrkel library implemented in Go In August 2021, ChainSafe engaged with Trail of Bits to conduct an independent audit of ChainSafe's implementation of Web3 Foundation's Schnorrkel cryptographic signature library in Golang (‘go-schnorrkel''). The original Schnorrkel library is