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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 Colin Schwarz Ethermint's First Public Testnet will Launch November 26th! ChainSafe is extremely excited to announce that we will launch the first public Ethermint testnet this Thursday, November 26th! ChainSafe will release the endpoints for users to connect to this testnet via Twitter at 10am EST this Thursday!
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Authored by Colin Schwarz Background ChainSafe is happy to announce that we have completed another deliverable from our current grant from the ICF to bring Ethermint into production as a full Cosmos chain. We wanted to take this opportunity to explain our work on the Web3 Personal API and why
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Authored by Colin Schwarz What is Ethermint Ethermint is an implementation of the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine), built using the Cosmos SDK, that runs on top of Tendermint Core's BFT Proof-of-Stake consensus engine. The software enables users to deploy any Ethereum compatible code and immediately enjoy PoS consensus and instant
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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 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
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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
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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 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
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Authored by Ben Adar Lodestar update The last few months have been very busy for the Lodestar team. We have made great leaps in the project and are getting close to being able to remain connected to public testnets (most recently Altona). The majority of our focus in the last
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Authored by Ben Adar ChainSafe Awarded Second Ethermint Grant ChainSafe is excited to announce that we have received another grant from the Interchain Foundation to finish the development and testing of a live Ethermint Zone. We are extremely eager to provide the community with a productionized version of this new
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Authored by Colin Schwarz A Multi-Chain Arbitrary Message Passing Standard Motivation ChainSafe is excited to announce the release of ChainBridge: a modular multi-directional blockchain bridge to allow data and value transfer between any number of blockchains. We believe that the future of blockchain technology is to allow all major networks
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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 was recently engaged by the Aragon Network (and the AA by proxy) to build Aragon Chain, an alternate chain optimized for Aragon usage. Aragon Chain will be built by implementing existing Aragon smart contracts and associated components on Ethermint, which is also being built by
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Authored by Colin Schwarz ChainSafe is excited to announce that we will be building an alternate chain optimized for Aragon usage for the Aragon community. We were recently engaged by Aragon One to analyze the technical feasibility of the various options which Aragon could pursue in order to create a
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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