BEAM: Final tuning on Android Clear Cathode 3.1, Progress on Beam Clear Cathode 3.2, Proof of Moin Hackathon, Beam Revamped Ambassador Program

Biweekly update 30th August — 13th September

Beam us up, Scotty! We are here to provide you with all the recent information on BEAM! The development side was lively — team BEAM reports everything about the current progress in the weekly updates. They continued working on wallets, API, Backlog, and Lelantus-MW. Furthermore, a dedicated command line flag was introduced to bypass the dictionary validation when the seed phrase is restored. Final tuning on Android Clear Cathode 3.1 and good progress on Beam Clear Cathode 3.2 appeared. Excluding merges, 7 authors have pushed 29 commits to master and 44 commits to all branches. On master, 263 files have changed, and there have been 32,854 additions. These two weeks were even more fruitful for BEAM social life. The team aims to bring together blockchain thought leaders, developers, investors, and educators, providing a place to engage with the Blockchain and crypto community. Beam, therefore, continuously visits and hosts private and scalable cryptocurrency-related events all over the world. The Proof of Moin hackathon, D&DD event in Tel Aviv and Kryptostudenter Stockholm were super successful! Several articles on MimbleWimble and BEAM are out; you can find a chapter by Binance Academy, review by Cryptodealers and lots of texts regarding international media! Besides, every week, new businesses are accepting Beam as a Payment Method, and now you can pay with BEAM in many more shops and services — see the full list in our update! Beam also revamped Ambassador Program. What about becoming an ambassador? Go and get acquainted with the rules and expectations in the update! The community is supportive and vivid — lots of BEAMers became true BEAMangelists! The number of subscribers in social networks is increasing.

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Development

BEAM GitHub metrics

Developer activity (from BEAM Coinlib.io)

• Beam — 2019 Week #35

R&D_Updates

1. [Swap] Create swap offer — user should be able to enter rate manually #830
2. [Swap] Atomic swap for send/receive screens #752
3. [Android] Restore wallet #264
4. [GUI Wallet] Contact’s comment isn’t created #800
5. [GUI Wallet] Reset of dropdown lock screen when choose different language #801
6. [UI Wallet] Send beam: all elements of the screen are locked if we make an exchange with expired address #802
7. [UI Wallet] Loading process and progress bar improvements #814
8. [CLI wallet] Introduce a dedicated command line flag to bypass the dictionary validation when seed phrase is restored #797
9. Excluding merges, 8 authors have pushed 13 commits to master and 104 commits to all branches. On master, 27 files have changed and there have been 894 additions

• The Chinese translation of Beam newly working on encryption protocol Lelantus-MW. Beam隐私新纪元，MW-lelantus协议详解
• Beam — 2019 Week #36 covering September 2nd — September 8th, 2019

R&D_Updates

1. Final tuning on Android Clear Cathode 3.1
2. Good progress on Beam Clear Cathode 3.2
3. [Atomic swap] Screen fix #849
4. [Android] Restore wallet #264
5. [Android] Send screen, tap on the address field, small bugs #284
6. [Android] Main screen redesign #297
7. [SBBS] Problem with SBBS messages broadcast #780
8. Excluding merges, 7 authors have pushed 29 commits to master and 44 commits to all branches. On master, 263 files have changed and there have been 32,854 additions

• Information from GitHub:

Social encounters

• Beam aims to bring together blockchain thought leaders, developers, investors, and educators. It is a place to engage with the Blockchain and crypto community. Beam therefore continuously visits and hosts confidential and scalable cryptocurrency-related events in Uzbekistan. See post.

• Tristan Jülich tweeted “Talking with so many people. Huge interest in cryptocurrencies and Beam. I’m happy but exhausted!”

• What Is Mimblewimble? — learn with Binance Academy.

#Stories/Podcasts/Videos_Materials from Beam Update:

1. Charlie Lee Vows to Keep Funding Litecoin Foundation Amid Pay Cuts | a story by Coindesk
2. How are Mimblewimble Coins Grin and Beam? | a story by Our Bitcoin News
3. Mimblewimble Coinleri Grin ve Beam Ne Durumda? | a story in Turkish by KriptoCoin
4. Crypto’s fungibility problem | a story by Brave New Coin
5. ¿Has barajado alguna vez a Bitcoin? | a story in Spanish by Criptonoticias
6. Investigando o cenário quanto à Privacidade | a story in Portugese by Livecoins
7. BTC Price After MASS ADOPTION | What is Mimblewimble? Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin News | a video by Altcoin Buzz
8. Co to jest Mimblewimble — czyli sekret anonimowego pomysłodawcy | a story in Polish by BitcoinPL
9. Flavors of Privacy: An Overview of Mimblewimble Implementations | a story by Zycrypto

• Finland’s first public launch of Beam anonymous cryptocurrency was done in CryptoRock 2019 in Bar21 Tampere last weekend. The wicked version of Beam logo was created by ArtLaz. See post.

• Watch cryptodealers with BEAM!

• BEAM presentation at Proof of Moin Hackathon & Others:

• Transcript: Beam’s Alex Zaidelson on confidentiality and compliance for Beam.
• Beam VIP Dinner:

• Why you shouldn’t buy your VPN services with non-confidential currency — udiWertheimer talking Bitcoin privacy issues at Dev++. BEAM is accepted by multiple VPN and VPS services.

• Talking about privacy at the D&DD event in Tel Aviv:

• #Stories/Podcasts/Videos_Materials from the recent update:

1. アンゴロウが今1番買いたいアルトコイン名とその理由 | a video in Japanese by アンゴロウ暗号資産研究ちゃんねる
2. What is Mimblewimble? The secret behind Grin/Beam Coin | a video by Sunny Side High
3. How to Mimblewimble? | an academic paper by Jakob Abfalter
4. Der beste anonyme Coin! Monero, Zcash, Beam, Grin | a video in German by Krypto Report
5. Обзор криптовалюты Beam | a video in Russian by Crypto Dealers
6. Why we need Beam Privacy — Omri Erez — Proof of Moin 2019 | a video by Blockchain Mania
7. Cryptocurrency Projects Are Upping Their Privacy Game | a story by Bitcoin.com
8. Crypto Projects Are Doubling Down on User Privacy through New Measures | a story by Viraj Shah
9. BEAM: онлайн стрим: Будущее майнинга и криптовалют | a video in Russian by Bytwork

Upcoming events:

1. Proof of Moin Hackathon Hamburg, September 6–8th, 2019
2. San Francisco Blockchain Week, USA, October 28th — November 3rd 2019
3. Beam Official Meetup, San Francisco, USA, November 2nd 2019 — (to be confirmed)
4. Genesis DevCon 2019 — Bangalore, India, November 23–24th 2019 (to be confirmed)
5. Beam Official Meetup — Bangalore, India, November 24th 2019

Roadmap

• According to the recent Roadmap Update: Additional releases in the Clear Cathode version will include the following key features:

1. One-sided payments — i.e. ability to publish a set of pre-created UTXOs and an address and get payments without the need of the recipient wallet getting online.
2. Lightning POC
3. Multisig Support

They also plan a bulletin board for Atomic Swaps, it is possible that this functionality will be delayed a bit. After they launch the basic Atomic Swap functionality, they will want to see how the community is using it and then decide on the best way to implement the marketplace.

Confidentiality is needed for crypto coins, stable coins, utility tokens, tokenized securities, even for crypto kitties. Their plan is to enable the issue of additional Beam Assets (or bAssets) on the blockchain.

To enable wide adoption, they will work in two directions:

1. Bridges to Bitcoin, Ethereum and eventually other blockchains. Such Bridge will allow locking an asset on Ethereum and issuing a matching bAsset on Beam. The bAsset can then be traded between Beam wallets in full confidentiality
2. bAsset Issuer, allowing a 3rd party to issue their own tokens on Beam blockchain. Such a token can represent any kind of value and have associated rules that will be enforced by the issuance server

• Another article depicts additional milestones:

It is their deep belief that any transfer and holding of value requires confidentiality. Confidentiality is needed for crypto coins, stable coins, utility tokens, tokenized securities, even for crypto kitties. The plan is to enable the issue of additional Beam Assets (or bAssets) on their blockchain.

To enable wide adoption, they will work in two directions:

1. Bridges to Bitcoin, Ethereum and eventually other blockchains. Such Bridge will allow locking an asset on Ethereum and issuing a matching bAsset on Beam. The bAsset can then be traded between Beam wallets in full confidentiality
2. bAsset Issuer, allowing a 3rd party to issue their own tokens on Beam blockchain. Such a token can represent any kind of value and have associated rules that will be enforced by the issuance server

Finance

Source: https://explorer.beam.mw/

Source: Coinmarketcap

Partnerships and team members

Here you can find the list of the shops and services that do accept Beam as a Payment Method. It is updated every week!

• Beam_Accepted_Here — Every week new businesses are accepting Beam as a Payment Method. Here is the list of this week’s newcomers:

1. Blocknews
2. Usenetnow
3. Frugal Usenet
4. Usenet News
5. Telegram View
6. Mobile Topup
7. Mobile Topup
8. RX Vape
9. Sanar
10. IFT Club Store
11. Krypto Kratom
12. Planet Traffic

• Beam Revamped Ambassador Program — Think of becoming Beam ambassador and get acquainted with the rules and expectations.

Rumors

• Join new Beam Stockholm Telegram group.
• Beam launched an official Blog in Korean and localized several super important content for the Korean-speaking community.
• Beni Issembert tweeted “A bit old but no comment…”

• What do people think of Beam? Learn it yourself!

Social media metrics

Social media activity

Social media dynamics

Social media dynamics

The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of BEAM Facebook likes, Reddit subscribers and Twitter followers. The information is taken from BEAM coingecko.com.

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