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Infrastructure and protocol development for the decentralized web. Home of the @lodestar_eth Ethereum client & Forest🌲 Filecoin client.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2018
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ChainSafe's public-facing production infrastructure averaged 99.99% availability across 14 endpoints over the past 12 months. Here's what's behind it: 7 providers, 4 regions, and the nodes, snapshots, testnets, and validators we run.
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Our ERC-20/CIP-56 middleware now gives Canton users: → Transfers to any party on Canton, with the recipient checked before funds move → A status and full history for every transfer: cancel before it's accepted, reclaim it if it expires → Splice-compliant CIP-56 tokens (HoldingV1, TransferFactory) and one TokenTransferEvent audit stream Code + release notes ⤵️
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Some of the infrastructure we run, other networks lean on: 🎲 A drand mainnet node (as a League of Entropy member alongside Cloudflare, Ethereum Foundation and Protocol Labs) 🔗 A WalletConnect Network service node 🧵👇
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🔐 An SSV node, where DVT splits validator keys across independent operators 📦 Celestia Fibre, run as a Celestia validator 🪐 Filecoin bootstrap nodes hard-coded into Lotus, Forest and Venus 👇
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Hoodi postponed, update to Lodestar v1.50.1 ⤵️
The Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet (scheduled for Oct 26) has been postponed. If you run a node or validator on Hoodi, please update to Lodestar v1.50.1 to remove the activation schedule. Paired EL clients must also be updated. Mainnet is unaffected. v1.50.1 ↓
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Porting anything Ethereum into Canton? We can bridge it. Our ERC-20/CIP-56 Middleware works by sitting an Ethereum JSON-RPC façade in front of Canton. MetaMask thinks it's talking to an Ethereum node. You sign, and the middleware translates the EVM command into a native Canton call in real time. Balances and transfers work the way your team already expects. Behind it, a dedicated relayer per partner locks your ERC-20 1:1 on Ethereum and mirrors it as a CIP-56 token on Canton. We build a bespoke bridge per asset, not a shared pool. Result: build, test, and deploy with the EVM workflows you already know on Canton's institutional rails. More info ⤵️
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Solstice is live on @Filecoin mainnet! Now, part of every block reward goes to the services that bring paying customers onto the network. Our Forest team helped get it here by contributing to the core code every Filecoin node runs. Forest supports Solstice on mainnet from v0.38.0. Make sure you’ve upgraded your Forest nodes! And for a great explainer on why Solstice matters, check out @DecentraMike’s thread 👇
The hardest part of decentralized governance isn't voting. It's incentives. For six years, Filecoin rewarded the creation of storage capacity. Now, we're taking a major step toward rewarding something fundamentally different: paying customers. Here's why Solstice matters. 🧵
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💙 So excited to see Forest improving! The latest storage provider onboarding guide actually recommends using Forest instead of Lotus for faster performance on small devices! medium.com/@filoz/become-a-f…
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Most rollup downtime is due to sequencer and batcher failure. Naturally, our fleet never takes a day off. We run it across 7 providers in EU, North America, LATAM and APAC, with 99.99% mean availability across 14 public endpoints over the last 12 months. Work with us ↓
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Filecoin turns 6 today! Our initial commit for Forest landed Nov 8, 2019, 11 months before mainnet launched. We’ve grown alongside the network ever since, building an independent Rust Filecoin node and running infrastructure that helps keep the chain accessible and reliable. Every payment in the loop settles onchain. And we’re proud to have been helping Filecoin stay healthy and active all these years! Happy birthday, @Filecoin 🎉
Major developments to Filecoin tokenomics and strategy that go live this month 💫 1. Rewarding customer acquisition & retention with new network reward mechanics 2. End of vesting built into the genesis block completes, reducing daily token supply growth 3. New products for enterprises and AI agents 🧵
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Your team doesn't have to learn Daml just to use Canton. Our ERC-20/CIP-56 middleware: sign in MetaMask → middleware translates → native CIP-56 on Canton. Customized, per-partner bridge, 1:1 lock/mirror.
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Huge milestone for the ecosystem. Congrats to all core dev teams pushing Ethereum forward!
Another monumental achievement inbound. One of the most ambitious upgrades in Ethereum's history is live on Sepolia
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