You are new to the organization, coming to the first daily stand-up and, instantly, something doesn’t feel right. Let’s review the immediate signs pointing to the wrongly-implemented agile processes and, of course, the corrections worth making. Symptoms

Being a founder inherently means serving a set of conflicting interests: Conquering-the-world ambitions are reduced to the Minimal Value Product (MVP) due to the budget and time-to-market constraints. The product is envisioned as nice and friendly but needs to be built fast to validate the product-market-fit ASAP. The marketers and…

Successful leaders always carry special feelings for their subordinates, they also continuously look for new ways to evolve their managerial capabilities. Let’s compare the differences between what job meant to people decades ago vs nowadays and learn what modern times talents, especially when managed remotely, expect from their managers to…

Meanwhile in a Confidential galaxy: let’s review the ambitious plans, bringing privacy to DeFi and the NFT realms. Since the previous update, you’re already familiar with the format of the three lanes: Beam (the blockchain): is where innovations start, enabling the business level features in the best possible confidential way. …

It’s been a while since our previous update from September 2020 where the road to Confidential DeFi was primarily announced. BEAM has made a lot of progress since taking 2021 and we’re proud to finally share with you what’s next for Beam. Lots of fancy-schmancy pics will follow — sit…

The most important Hard Fork at height 1,280,000 that brings confidential Smart Contracts to Beam blockchain has been completed successfully as announced earlier. No consensus was changed. As during the previous forks, most of Team Beam was online at the time of the time, constantly monitoring the health of the…

Beam is building a confidential DeFi ecosystem to enable decentralized apps (DAPPs) for a range of use-cases from governance and voting to financial instruments such as trading, lending and stablecoins. Let’s dive into what BeamX entails.

Beam, a layer one privacy blockchain, is bringing confidentiality to the DeFi space. 2M USD funding has been secured to enable private DeFi building blocks such as AMM, LP, staking, algorithmic stable coin and more. Multiple institutional and individual investors participated in the first round, including Collider Ventures, Altonomy, LionsChain…

When paying for something in the fiat world, it is not customary to flash the entire contents of your wallet. We all love crypto for facilitating borderless trading and fast payments. But one thing that is severely lacking is the control over the visibility of our funds, made especially difficult…