Catching up If you read my first post, you may recall that I began the process of creating BridgeBurner back January, when I started laying out the DApp’s initial structure following a Twitter brainstorm session. From then until I began this series in April, I had been coding BridgeBurner behind the scenes. But like with many …
Welcome back to EGS Garage with Chaz If you read the first installment of EGS Garage with Chaz, you know we’re here to create a DApp from scratch. Much like cooking from scratch, you’re going to need a few simple ingredients. To get started programming smart contracts, you need 3 things: the skills, the tools, and a …
An upgrade to Ethereum gas fees? The Ethereum gas fees you’re familiar with may be changing thanks to EIP-1559. This proposal seeks to do away with the old and sometimes frustrating gas fee auction system. As an alternative, EIP-1559 proposes a BASEFEE, which would make the experience of paying for transaction fees so much smoother. …
Prysmatic Labs’ public Proof of Stake testnet is live! You have to hand it to the folks at Prysmatic Labs for working behind the scenes for months and emerging with something truly remarkable. I won’t try to summarize everything covered in Prysmatic Labs’ announcement of the Prysm Ethereum 2.0 Proof of Stake testnet. In fact, …
What is the Ethereum Name Service (ENS)? In short, the Ethereum Name Service (or ENS) is a service that lets you turn your Ethereum address from something like this: 0xA19FCDaD77C1F0fd1… to something humans understand, like this: PayMe.eth. It’s the Ethereum equivalent of IP addresses and DNS domains. ENS launched its original registry in May 2017. The ENS …
