Release Date: June 14th, 2022 TL;DR Release Highlights: The Beam hard fork is scheduled for June 24, 2022, at a block height of 1,820,000. To continue using your funds please upgrade your Beam wallets to 7.0 prior to reaching this height! Added user-friendly features such as “search” in the settings, node switching without…

Beam will execute the hard fork as previously announced in our Roadmap. This network upgrade will occur at Block Height 1,820,000 expected to occur on June 24, 2022. Breaking changes Activate support for IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) for storing large amounts of data to reduce blockchain bloat making Beam more efficient. Activate…

Welcome Beam Anonymous Name Service (BANS) Greetings Beamers, We’re pleased to announce the BANS DApp that will allow Beamers to create their own personalised identity for trading $BEAM and any confidential assets on top of the Beam blockchain. BANS IDs are private-by-default and support all types of transactions(offline, online, public…

The Inception of Confidential DAPPs The last Beam hard fork at block 1,280,000 enabled the implementation of smart contracts on the private-by-default blockchain paving way for the confidential BeamX DeFi ecosystem comprised of decentralized censorship-resistant DAPP stores with a thriving NFT marketplace. The Beam Staking Campaign locked roughly ~20% of the total $BEAM supply for…

The Beam Staking Campaign, which launched on October 21 2021, finally comes to an end after distributing 1,000,000 $BEAMX to $BEAM stakers over the course of 131,400 blocks (or 3 months). …

Beam, the industry-leading privacy-by-default blockchain turns 3! On January 3rd 2019, Beam started off as a privacy cryptocurrency but over years of continuous hard work and development, has quickly transformed itself into a vibrant confidential DeFi ecosystem. Each year has been a substantial leap forward with rapid developments and feature…

A single feature update packs one huge punch for the Beam Mobile Wallet. Version 6.2 introduces private-by-default mobile DAPPs bringing the BeamX DeFi ecosystem to smartphones; improvements to stability and performance, bug fixes and minor UI tweaks. Beam Confidential DAPP Store on your smartphone The most significant improvement to Beam Mobile Wallet is the launch of the…

Release Date: 22nd December In the 6.2.12491 version release we introduced a bug that caused transactions to be resent unnecessarily between nodes. As a result, number of repeated transactions in the network caused unusual load that in turn resulted in some delays in block creation time. …

Release Date: 18th December Recently released 6.2 Beam Node version has contained a bug in the Dandelion protocol causing some of the transactions to be unnecessarily resent through the network. As a result network was overloaded causing some delays in block creation. The issue was resolved and is available in…