How an industry for truth will conquer an archaic incumbent. — Check out our new platform 👉 https://thecapital.io/ If I served up two options for truth: one that is guaranteed by principles in mathematics and cryptography, and one that is guaranteed because I, as a reputed authority, told you it was true… which would you choose? Perhaps an analogy might help. Suppose you were at a governmental office…

A debrief on Orchid Island, and the People who call themselves Tao. — If I had a time machine, or if I could be reborn as one of the principal Tao peoples whom first discovered Orchid Island (or Lanyu 蘭嶼 as it is known in Taiwanese), I would have proposed at the tribal council this name: Moonfall Island. The first time any kindred…

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 details with our community! Here’s what you need to know. The current state of web3.unity Up to…

Designing and building blockchain-enabled games — Thank you to Willem Olding and Megs Doyle for their contributions to this article. ① · Introduction ② · Overview: A solution to fair, decentralized, and quality gameplay ③ · Understanding the building blocks of blockchain gaming ④ · Battle game design: Toshimon mechanics ⑤ · Technical aspects: Facilitating ‘proof of fairness’ ⑥ · ChainSafe…

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 space. Some users tend to feel more comfortable having a wallet tied to a social account they already own. This helps to speed…

A Story Of Traditional Finance Masquerading As Something Else — The following excerpt was taken from the Nov 22 OpEd I had written for ChainSafe’s newsletter “Centralization Strikes Again”. If you find this content engaging, we would love your support on our Substack! ❤️ I will not waste my reader’s precious mental capacity on the well-documented FTX collapse. Everything about…

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 and community calls and is good evidence of the gaming community’s ceaseless #ShipItMentality. For our part, ChainSafe Gaming has been keen…

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 blockchain game development space but have no idea where to start? Never fear, ChainSafe Gaming is here! We have…

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, a Rust client for Filecoin will bring diversity and resilience to a network currently largely run on Lotus…