We launched ChainFront in October of last year to solve one of the largest usability issues for end users of crypto: how to deal with private keys. Expecting mainstream consumers to keep a written backup of either a 36 character hexadecimal string or a 12 word passphrase always struck us…

ChainFront was founded in May 2018 by Alan Warms and Darryl Anderson to create software to enable blockchain-based applications. During a blockchain consulting engagement for a top 10 ecommerce company, Warms and Anderson realized that mainstream end-users and corporations would never accept the notion of unrecoverable private keys. End users…

ChainFront now supports XRP Ledger and Ethereum, to go along with the Stellar blockchain. Go https://developers.chainfront.io now to register, create accounts, and get instructions on how to get an API key. The ChainFront API documentation also includes examples of code and a Getting Started guide. XRP Ledger is at the…

The ChainFront Developers site is now live at https://developers.chainfront.io. Developers can go there to register, create accounts, and get instructions on how to create their API key. The ChainFront API documentation also includes examples of code and a Getting Started guide. …

TL;DR : Underpinning much of the recovery and two-factor authentication options today are SMS/texts to your mobile phone number. These options rest on the “security” that the carriers provide for your number. That security is simply non-existent. This should be a much bigger deal and the carriers should he held…

I am avid listener of the UnChained podcast, hosted by Laura Shin. Not only are there lively informative discussions every week, but the guests always give context and history of how the industry got here. Last week, Laura hosted Nathaniel Popper and Paul Vigna, reporters who cover Bitcoin and crypto…

APIs for centralized private key management, transaction signing, and multi-factor authentication Over the summer, we wrote a post on the difficulties of getting mainstream users to the blockchain. In keeping with our vision to help developers create usable and secure blockchain applications, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the…

StorageTokenIO (fictional) has announced they are launching a project to provide inexpensive data storage by taking advantage of the vast amount of unused hard disk space in corporate and consumer devices. They are launching a new coin, called StorageToken, that will be earned by “miners” providing storage to the market…