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Published in The Capital

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Forget the money and hype: this is the reason why blockchains will define our future

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…

Blockchain

8 min read

Forget the money and hype: this is the reason why blockchains will define our future
Forget the money and hype: this is the reason why blockchains will define our future

Pinned

Children of Orchid

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…

Travel

33 min read

Children of Orchid
Children of Orchid

Published in ChainSafe

·3 days ago

Gradients #3: An MVP For The Mina Community

An update from the Mina team on our progress from Q1 and Q2 2022 — Mina-rs is ChainSafe’s Rust implementation of the Mina Protocol, originally written in OCaml. Mina-rs, a tentatively named project, was awarded to ChainSafe through a community grant from the Mina Foundation in May 2021. …

Mina

7 min read

Gradients #3: An MVP For The Mina Community
Gradients #3: An MVP For The Mina Community

Jun 4

Web3’s Overton Window

The following excerpt was taken from the May 2022 OpEd I had written for ChainSafe’s newsletter “Centralization Strikes Again”. If you find this content helpful, we would love your support on our Substack! ❤️ On a recent episode of “Uncommon Core” between CryptoTwitter personalities Hasu and Su Zhu, they referred…

3 min read

Web3’s Overton Window
Web3’s Overton Window

Published in ChainSafe

·May 5

Unlocking Web3 Gaming with Moonbeam and the ChainSafe Gaming SDK

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 integration with web3.unity thanks to its EVM compatibility. …

Polkadot

4 min read

Unlocking Web3 Gaming with Moonbeam and the ChainSafe Gaming SDK
Unlocking Web3 Gaming with Moonbeam and the ChainSafe Gaming SDK

May 3

Mechanisms for Coordination

The following excerpt was taken from an April, 2022 OpEd I had written for ChainSafe’s newsletter “Centralization Strikes Again”. If you find this content helpful, we would love your support on our Substack! ❤️ A core web3 and game theory concept I have recently fallen in love with is the…

Blockchain

4 min read

Mechanisms for Coordination
Mechanisms for Coordination

Published in ChainSafe

·Apr 6

ChainSafe Gaming SDK Now Supporting Cronos Ecosystem

Extending the Gaming SDK’s integrated chains to new horizons — This is a joint release with the Cronos ecosystem. ChainSafe is excited to announce ChainSafe’s Gaming SDK, web3.unity, as the first developer tool to join the newly established Cronos Play — a suite of gaming developer tools and services for the Cronos ecosystem. …

Products

4 min read

ChainSafe Gaming SDK Now Supporting Cronos Ecosystem
ChainSafe Gaming SDK Now Supporting Cronos Ecosystem

Published in ChainSafe

·Mar 29

Glow of the Canopy #1 🌱: Nourishing the Filecoin Virtual Machine with help from Forest 🌲

An update from the Forest team on our latest progress — 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…

Filecoin

4 min read

Glow of the Canopy #1 🌱: Nourishing the Filecoin Virtual Machine with help from Forest 🌲
Glow of the Canopy #1 🌱: Nourishing the Filecoin Virtual Machine with help from Forest 🌲

Published in ChainSafe

·Mar 8

ChainSafe Gaming SDK Spotlight: Cryptopolis

​​Emerging NFT use cases and play-to-earn (P2E) models are fueling the rapid growth of blockchain gaming. We see this playing out every day in our Discord where devs congregate to share ideas and ask questions about the ChainSafe Gaming SDK. To share some of this activity, we’ve created a gaming…

Products

5 min read

ChainSafe Gaming SDK Spotlight: Cryptopolis
ChainSafe Gaming SDK Spotlight: Cryptopolis

Published in ChainSafe

·Jan 18

Go-Schnorrkel is Audited

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 a general-purpose signature scheme implemented in Rust that improves safety for blockchain applications. …

Polkadot

2 min read

Go-Schnorrkel is Audited
Go-Schnorrkel is Audited
Timothy Hao Chi Ho

Timothy Hao Chi Ho

I write for the future of web3. Comms at ChainSafe.

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