Conor Svensson

How to create a CorDapp in 3 steps

When you embark on writing your first CorDapp, it is a significant undertaking for the first time around. There are a lot of moving parts and concepts to learn, some of them may be completely unfamiliar such as distributed systems and cryptography.  At Web3 Labs, we strive to make the

Web3j Ethereum Foundation Grant Update

Back at Devcon V, we were delighted to announce that Web3 Labs was awarded a grant for Web3j by the Ethereum Foundation.  Web3j is the leading Ethereum integration library on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It was first released at Devcon 2 in September 2016, and has been downloaded over

Exciting Web3j SDK Announcements

Web3j is the JVM integration library for Ethereum, used by Java, Android and Kotlin developers. It provides you with account and transaction management, and full type safety of smart contract integration from code. This means that when you write Java code with Java types, they will be mapped in a

Exploring the Blockchain on AWS

Since launching the Sirato (Chainlens) blockchain explorer on the Azure Marketplace earlier this year, many people have asked us if it would be made available on the AWS Marketplace. The wait is finally over! We’re pleased to announce that from today Sirato (Chainlens) is available in the AWS Marketplace.

How to create an awesome developer experience for Corda

September and October 2019 were busy months at Web3 Labs, with a lot of work happening in preparation for CordaCon. In support of our ongoing mission to provide a fantastic developer experience for developers working with blockchain, we were pleased to announce the web3j-corda project which was made public for

How to explore the blockchain on Hyperledger Besu

Ever since we created the Sirato (Chainlens) blockchain explorer, we wanted to ensure it works seamlessly with several different Enterprise Ethereum (and of course regular Ethereum) blockchain clients. Until recently, Quorum was the only enterprise client that we fully supported along with its privacy features. We’re pleased to say

Chainlens goes Mobile

Although our Chainlens blockchain explorer for Quorum and Ethereum is primarily intended for running on a desktop machine or laptop, we’ve always wanted to ensure it offers a great user experience on mobile too. We released the mobile support a while back, but had wanted to do a dedicated

Chainlens Blockchain Explorer - free version now available

Hot off the heels of our Chainlens blockchain explorer release on Azure, we refreshed our free blockchain explorer offering. Now you can use our flagship Chainlens explorer on Quorum, Ethereum and Azure Blockchain Service. Pantheon support will also be available very soon!  To get started, head over to the project

Chainlens at //build/

It’s been a busy few weeks at Web3 Labs. Following the  launch of our Chainlens Blockchain Explorer on Azure  last week, we also had the privilege of it being selected by Mark Russinovich , the CTO for Microsoft Azure for his demo at Build. Build is Microsoft’s premier developer

Azure Blockchain Service Explorer

Last night Microsoft announced their Azure Blockchain Service providing a fully managed service for the formation, management and governance of blockchain deployments. We’ve been working with the technology in private during the past few months, and we believe Microsoft have done a fantastic job in simplifying the deployment of

Tokens for Enterprise

Here at Web3 Labs we’re great believers in the opportunity tokenization presents for blockchains. From asset tokens to utility tokens, the ability for them to track asset provenance or a notion of value — be it loyalty points or similar initiatives is a great usage of the technology, with an

Introducing Web3 Labs

We’re excited to be announcing that blk.io has rebranded to Web3 Labs! The Rebrand  When we started blk.io 18 months ago, we had a vision for the company to bridge the gap for enterprises working with Ethereum blockchain technology. As technologists we loved the name blk.io

Announcing the Web3j Gradle plugin

Here at blk.io we’re happy to announce the general availability of the web3j Gradle plugin. Ever since support was added to web3j forsmart contract bindings we’ve wanted to have a Gradle plugin. We were fortunate that Heinz Marti developed (and continues to maintain) a Maven plugin, but

Web3j ECF update

The Ethereum Community Fund (ECF) recently announced funding for web3j. Here at blk.io it’s been great to get this support from the ECF to help supercharge the development of the library. A bit of history I started development of web3j back in September 2016, with the initial release

DerivHack 2018

Last month members of blk.io participated in the inaugural Derivhack 2018 Hackathon, sponsored by ISDA, Barclays, Deloitte and Thompson Reuters at Rise London. We won the category of best solution architecture for our work built on top of our very own Epirus platform. It was great to get the

Chainlens Enterprise Blockchain Platform

The team at blk.io have been hard at work during the past few months. We’ve been working on a number of initiatives which we’re now ready to bring together to present Chainlens, our enterprise blockchain platform. Chainlens is made up of a number of core components, including:

Crux 1.0

We’ve been busy at blk.io in the last couple of months since we announced Crux. We're happy to announce the availability of version 1.0. This version, an updated client and internal API making use of Google’s protocol buffers and gRPC technologies. TLS is also

Announcing Crux, a secure enclave for Quorum

We’ve been working with and contributing one way or another to Quorum since it was made public back in November 2016. Regardless of your views of JP Morgan, having one of the worlds largest financial firms putting their weight behind Ethereum blockchain technology and creating Quorum, was always a

Announcing our Blockchain Explorer

It’s been a busy few months here at blk.io with supporting the milestone 3.x release of web3j and getting our first enterprise product built. One of the challenges we’ve always had when working with private Ethereum or Quorum blockchain networks is the lack of a tool

ENS and Truffle support in web3j 3.1.0 release!

On my flight to Devcon 3 a couple of weeks ago (which was excellent BTW), I had the good fortune of sitting next to Nick Johnson, creator of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). Given we both got our laptops out just after take-off, and had code on our screens, it

Azure ERC-20 Token Service video walk-through

Mark Whitby at Microsoft has published a great walk-through for deploying and running our ERC-20 RESTful Service in Azure. If you haven’t deployed it yet, we recommend you follow the below instructions to get going. You can contact us if you run in to any problems.   Video Details: Cloud

Just in time for Devcon, web3j 3.0!

Following months of development, the web3j 3.0 milestone release has dropped! This release provides numerous enhancements aimed at making it even easier to work with Ethereum and smart contracts in JVM languages.  A full rundown of all of the great new functionality is below.  blk.io is going to

Azure ERC-20 Token Service on Quorum

We recently made available our first blockchain solution on the Azure Marketplace. This sample environment provides RESTful services for creating and managing ERC-20 tokens on top of Quorum. It provides a 3-node Quorum environment and RESTful service endpoints for interacting with each of those nodes over HTTP. These services are