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Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho PINT is an index token representing a diversified basket of Polkadot ecosystem projects. PINT is an index token representing a diversified basket of Polkadot ecosystem projects. It is a StakerDAO community initiative being built by ChainSafe and Stateless Money. You can read more about
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Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho The following is a cross-post from the PINT Substack on May 3, 2021. Stay tuned for the latest PINT developer blogs and project updates by subscribing to the PINT Substack newsletter! A quick reminder - PINT is an index token representing a diversified basket
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Authored by Ben Adar Achievement unlocked! Full sync to Polkadot, and other updates from the Gossamer team For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, formerly known as the Polkadot Runtime Environment. To learn more about what exactly that is, watch our introductory talk from
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Authored by Elizabeth The following blog post was originally shared as a HackMD document, which was itself shared during Gossamer Tech Lead Elizabeth Binks's Polkadot Decoded talk on May 20th. In this post, Elizabeth briefly introduces Gossamer, before walking through how to build a custom chain with Gossamer, as well
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Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho ChainSafe awarded two Chainlink Community Grants OK; LG ChainSafe is honoured to receive two Chainlink Community Grants to further bolster oracle development in two major blockchain ecosystems. The first grant - announced on April 23rd, 2021 - was awarded to us for the ongoing
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Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho ChainSafe awarded a new Web3 Foundation grant for Go-cumulus "Specialization breeds optimization." Robert Habermeier ChainSafe has been awarded a new grant from the Web3 Foundation to build a Go equivalent of the Cumulus extension to Substrate! The goal of this grant is to enable
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Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Get all of the developer blogs and latest updates on the Polkadot Index Network Token from the PINT Substack here. Care to share a PINT with us? 🍻 ChainSafe will be building PINT, or the Polkadot Index Network Token, in conjunction with Stateless Money! The
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Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Syncing to Kusama Pt. 1 - Syncing to Kusama For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, formerly known as the Polkadot Runtime Environment. To learn more about what exactly that is, watch our introductory talk from DotCon during
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Authored by Edward Mack Since we published our last blog post, Gossamer Update: September 2020, we've finished implementing all functionality specified by The Polkadot Host Protocol Specification. We've also tagged release version 0.2.0. For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, formerly known
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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
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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
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Authored by Amer Ameen The vision behind our implementation of the Polkadot Host. It's hard to believe that it's been almost a year since we started working on Gossamer. As they say, time flies when you're having fun! Building Gossamer has been a journey of significant learning & growth. Having the
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Authored by Colin Schwarz ChainSafe is excited to announce that we have recently released Go-Schnorrkel, a pure Go implementation of the sr25519 signature algorithm (schnorr over ristretto25519). sr25519 is the default signing algorithm for substrate so the first implementation is in rust. Go-Schnorrkel was written by ChainSafe engineer Elizabeth and
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Authored by Colin Schwarz In January of this year, ChainSafe was awarded a grant by the Web3 Foundation to build the second implementation of the Polkadot Runtime Environment (PRE). We call our implementation Gossamer and we have been working diligently to deliver it ever since. I'm writing this article to
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Authored by Colin Schwarz What is Web3? Why do We Need it? The internet has seen a lot of change since it became publicly available in 1991. The early internet lasted from the early 90s until the early 2000s and is sometimes referred to as Web 1.0. As many
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Authored by Elizabeth Hey everyone! At ChainSafe we've recently completed the Trie milestone of our Polkadot runtime environment. Check it out in our repo! In our previous article, we discussed some background for Polkadot and went over our timeline for the project. In this article, I'd like to explain the