Unbundling the Nimbus consensus client: Part one
Looking under the hood of the Nimbus consensus client — the lightweight Ethereum client.
Nimbus client 2022 year-end recap
A recap of updates to the Nimbus consensus client over the past 12 months.
v1.20 Release - Wallet Connect, Mutual Contact Requests & Performance Improvements
Status v1.20 introduces experimental support for mutual contact requests, Wallet Connect support, performance improvements, and a lot of bug fixes.
Smart Appliance Spying
We are so often concerned with—and building for the purposes of—online privacy, that we have been less focused on a different type of privacy invasion. Privacy in your own home is under attack.
We have made one of the fastest BLS signature implementations
We’re going to zoom in on a specific part—one that we have recently made some big developments in. Mamy, one of our engineers, has made one of the world’s fastest BLS signature implementations. We have been working on this since 2018, and have some big results to show for it.
ENS Airdrop: time to pay it forward
TL;DR If you registered a stateofus.eth name in the Status app before October 31, 2021, then you can collect $ENS as part of
What is DeFi? How does it impact your future?
Centralized Finance Today Almost every facet of banking, lending, and trading is now managed through centralized systems run by regulatory organizations and gatekeepers. Consumers must
How our principles benefit users (1/2)
Status provides a list of principles that drive us, found here. Our principles motivate our design decisions, which features make it into Status, and what
Waku: Decentralized Communication for Web3
Welcome to Waku! We value decentralization, because it protects users, privacy, and mitigates censorship. We value Web3, because it demonstrates that we've had enough of
Web Evolution
The World Wide Web ("WWW" or "The Web") is a tool which began in the 60s, used by billions of people to share, read, and
v1.19 Release - Android Push Notifications, Performance & Syncing
What a month. pic.twitter.com/gE9ecf08uq — Status (@ethstatus) March 28, 2022 Here’s Status 1.19, offering a more convenient, stable, and faster experience!
The Dark Web & Web3
The internet is evolving. Web3 projects are already offering usable alternatives to the last generation of services. Why? Web2 projects did not respect the privacy
Nimbus update: checkpoint sync, era files, Vouch
(image of the Lennon Wall courtesy of IFMSA) As these notes were being written, Putin's senseless war in Ukraine left nobody untouched and Status is
Crypto Social – Help us fight for privacy
As tokenized communities become more real, as more people begin to understand how crypto can protect their privacy, or even freedom, as identity continues to
The Status Refactor
What is refactoring? Developers can probably skip this section. Sometimes when you’re working on a project, things get thrown together in a fast, but