Web3 Foundation grant project enhances Substrate to run on WasmEdge
The open source developers from the WasmEdge community have just delivered the first two milestones of our Web3 Foundation grant. The result is a Substrate implementation that runs on the WasmEdge WebAssembly Runtime.
Why is an Alternative Runtime Needed? In Sept 2016, a computational DDoS attack was launched against the nascent Ethereum blockchain while most Ethereum developers were attending Devcon2 in Shanghai. The attack exploited an issue with the GETH software and brought down Ethereum nodes running GETH.…
