ChainSafe Systems

Basics

• "We met at the Toronto Ethereum Developer Meetup that we now help co-organize. Our team supports a few community initiatives including the Görli testnet, University of Toronto Decentralized Tech Association, Blockchain Ryerson, UofT Blockchain Group and a few local hackathons!"
• Ethereum research and development startup
• Was one of the players (together with ETC Labs and The Ethereum Cooperative in making the ETC Atlantis hard fork get accepted.

Works on

• Has initiated DeNode
• Gossamer; "Implementation of the Polkadot Runtime Environment in Golang."
• Lodestar; "Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem written in TypeScript & AssemblyScript."
• Ethermint; "Implementation of Ethereum on Tendermint using Cosmos-SDK."
• Ethereum Classic; "Implemented the Atlantis and Aghartha hard forks into EthereumProject/go-ethereum."
• Görli & Kotti; "Cross-client proof-of-authority Ethereum testnets."
• ChainBridge; "Modular multi-directional blockchain bridge to interact with multiple networks."
• Aragon Chain (based on Tendermint)
• ChainSafe builds the bridge for Moonbeam (27-1-2021):

"ChainBridge is the a bridge between Ethereum and the Moonbeam parachain on Polkadot that will allow asset transfers between the two independent chains."

Current and former clients

As of 9-2019:

• Whiteblock
• Polymath
• AION
• George Brown College
• York University
• Shyft
• Arkillio

Team, Funding, partners, etc.

Team

• Aidan Hyman; CEO and founder
• Chris Fenos
• Colin Schwarz
• David Ansermino
• Dustin Brickwood
• Elizabeth Binks
• Gregory Markou
• Priom Chowdhury
• Stu Peters

Funding

• According to their website their "open source R&D is supported by" (9-2019):

1. Ethereum
2. Web3
3. Interchain
4. Ethereum Cooperative
5. Ethereum Community Fund

• Got a grant from the Interchain Foundation (Cosmos) (29-6-2020).
• Got a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to continue the maintenance and further development of Web3JS (4-9-2020).

Partners

• Has links with the Ethereum Foundation since their whole team were one of the signatories on a leaked Ethereum Foundation document about maintaining cohesion ahead of its (at the time pending) Constantinople, Create2 fork.