Beam Turns 3! Announcing the Beam Birthday Bash NFT Competition

3 min readDec 28, 2021

Greetings Beamers!

Beam, the maximum confidentiality private-by-default blockchain turns 3! It’s been an exhilarating journey for the Beam Team developing the best-in-class privacy protocols; hard forking the Beam blockchain to improve efficiency, scale and enable smart contracts; developing BeamX DeFi dApps and progressively decentralizing the Beam Foundation, handing over governance to the community-run Beam DAO.

To celebrate Beam’s 3rd anniversary, we’re pleased to announce The Beam Birthday Bash NFT Competition that comes with a total prize pool of 3,500 $BEAM. So get your imaginations and paintbrushes ready to draw some birthday-themed Beam NFTs.

Key Details:

The competition is set to launch on 30th December. Artists can submit collections by the deadline of Thursday, the 30th at 2 PM (GMT). The NFTs will be minted on that day.
Voting will be conducted on Twitter in 2 rounds. Voting for Round 1 will begin on 30 December and end on January 3rd.
Nine artists will advance from the 1st round into Round 2, from which three artists will be selected as winners.
Voting for Round 2 commences on January 3rd and ends on January 6th. All the scores will be tallied and the winning collections will be announced.

All the $BEAMs go to the Top 3 victors!

🥇1st Prize — 2000 BEAM
🥈2nd Prize -1000 BEAM
🥉3rd Prize — 500 BEAM

Voting Rules

During Voting Round 1, winners will be selected by the number of likes on Twitter, at the end of the round, likes will be counted and 9 artists will proceed to Round 2.
For Voting Round 1, Artists may upload 1 NFT pic as their submission to Twitter and add the hashtag #BEAM_NFT_COMPETITON & tag @Beamprivacy to be eligible for the competition.
For Voting Round 2, @beamprivacy will upload the last 9 NFTs. The top three winners will be determined by the highest number of Retweets & Comments

Submitting NFT Ground Rules

We expect a Beam birthday theme (Beam Turns 3!)
Artists can submit 1 image to NFT@Beam.mw
Image format should be JPEG (.jpg or .jpeg) only
The image file name must correspond exactly to the name of the piece
The maximum size of the image should not exceed 50 KB
The contract public key (on Desktop wallet can be found on DAPP section → NFT Gallery, on the Web Wallet can be found here or here
Artist name (can be a pseudonym)
Email titles should be: Beam Turns 3 — NFT Competition
Voting will be conducted via Twitter.
Artist set the price for each image once it’s minted (100% of revenue goes to the artist)

We’re always excited to see Beamer creativity in full-throttle and can’t wait to see the collections you create! Hoping for a big birthday bonanza with loads of gift-wrapped presents and of course candles & cake!

What’s Next?

Brace yourselves for a feature-packed 2022 with an Ethereum bridge in the works, alongside development for a new confidential stablecoin, an Automated Market Maker (AMM) dApp and several play-to-earn games. Read BEAM’s comprehensive roadmap for the full picture of what’s coming.