The first BeamX DAO proposal of 2026 seeks to approve the name Beam Warp for Beam’s upcoming sidechain.

This is a name-only vote. It does not introduce new functionality, technical changes, or parameter updates. The sole purpose of this proposal is to formally confirm the sidechain’s name on-chain ahead of subsequent development and governance steps.

Summary

A BeamX DAO vote proposal to confirm community consensus on adopting the name Beam Warp for Beam’s first high-performance sidechain (currently under advanced development).

Why “Beam Warp”?

The name has been used consistently throughout development and community discussions, and this proposal seeks to formalize that usage as the project moves closer to public release milestones.

Once the vote concludes, the approved name will be used consistently across documentation, development references, and future proposals related to the sidechain.

Details and Motivation

Over the past year, multiple discussions have taken place within the Beam community around the development of a very fast proof-of-stake sidechain for Beam. The proposed sidechain is designed to support one-second block times and instant finality, while preserving the same privacy guarantees, confidential assets, and smart contract capabilities as the Beam mainchain.

The project codename Beam Warp, originally proposed by @bigromanov, has been used throughout ongoing communication and development. As the project progresses toward a future public testnet release, it is appropriate to formally agree on adopting Beam Warp as the name of the final product.

This proposal exists solely to confirm that naming choice through on-chain governance.

Remarks

• Beam Warp is the first fast sidechain developed for the Beam ecosystem. Its structure is being designed as a permissionless template, allowing others to launch similar sidechains under different names if desired.
• As a delegated-proof-of-stake blockchain that uses the BEAMX confidential asset for staking, Beam Warp is considered part of the broader BeamX DAO ecosystem and therefore naturally falls under its governance framework — hence this vote.

How to Vote

Votes will be recorded on-chain via the BeamX DAO Voting dApp in Beam Wallet.

Voting period: 29 January 2026–12 February 2026
Epoch: BeamX DAO Voting Epoch #93

Eligibility (important)

To be eligible, users must have their $BEAMX tokens locked in the voting contract during the previous voting epoch. This means locking your $BEAMX after the epoch begins will not make you eligible until the next voting epoch.

Voting mechanics

• 1 BEAMX = 1 vote
• This proposal will require a quorum of 50% of staked $BEAMX to pass

We encourage all eligible participants to review the proposal and cast their vote.

References

• General discussions around Beam Warp in Beam’s community channels: Telegram and Discord.
• January 2026 Beam News development update.
• Special thanks to @dbadol2000 for authoring the proposal.

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Celebrating Beam’s 5th Anniversary: Kicking off 2024 with Beam Wallet 7.5

Since we launched Beam in 2019, we’ve been on a mission to reshape the Web3 ecosystem, pushing private-by-default transactions as the norm, in a status quo of public transaction blockchains.

We’ve championed the human right to financial privacy, building a censorship-resistant and community-governed private DeFi ecosystem, accessible to everyone as a public good.

Across five years, from initially starting as a mimblewimble-based privacy blockchain for peer-to-peer transactions, to June 2021’s ground-breaking hard fork enabling smart contracts, kickstarting the BeamX PriFi ecosystem; Beam is now set to become the privacy conduit of Web3 featuring a complete PriFi experience including:

• Atomic Swaps
• DAO community-governance
• Decentralized identities (DID)
• Interoperability with Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains
• Private-by-default stablecoin and DEX
• Private-by-default NFT Marketplace
• Smart contract and DApp functionality

We’re now kicking off 2024 with giant leaps forward for Beam: Web3’s leading private-by-default blockchain.

Beam Wallet 7.5

The Beam Team firmly believes in “Not your Keys, Not your Coins” and we’ve distilled this philosophy into Beam Wallet. The Beam Wallet is available across all modern devices, web browsers, smartphones, and hardware wallets; ensuring Beam Wallet travels with you and is always within reach.

The Beam Wallet 7.5 update refines the user experience with many new features like:

• Ability to switch between Mainnet and DAppnet
• Create and manage multiple wallets in a single Beam Wallet
• The embedded DApp store
• Significantly faster log-in time

Stay tuned for the release date announcement.

A Vision for the Future

The Beam roadmap is a testament to our commitment to constant innovation and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, with novel Web3 technologies emerging every day.

We believe interoperability to remain a key narrative, that will shape Web3 in the coming years. Thus, we position Beam as a Layer-1, and also as a seamless private-by-default on-ramp for all EVM-compatible chains.

In 2024, we’re setting our sights on improving Beam x EVM functionality, building bridges to Polygon, and research integrating GHOSTDAG and the KASPA consensus mechanisms for rapid-fast transaction settlements.

Also, expect to see a revamped version of the Beam Explorer.

Beam is a decentralized community-governed protocol, all proposed initiatives will first be scrutinized and voted on by the Beamer community, and guided by the feedback we receive on Beam Forum discussions.

$BEAM Mining Rewards Halving

Starting ~8th January 2024 (01:00 UTC), $BEAM emissions will be halved from 26,280,000 $BEAM emitted per year to 13,140,000 $BEAM.

The $BEAM emissions allocation for the Beam Treasury will reduce to 0, with all $BEAM emissions going towards miners’ rewards.

For the comprehensive $BEAM emissions schedule, refer to the spreadsheet here.

Gratitude and Acknowledgment:

As Beam commemorates its 5th anniversary, we express gratitude for the voluntary support, discussions, and commitment from our warm Beamer community.

You have been a key reason for Beam’s success and enabled PriFi to reach tens of thousands of people across the world.

Thank You for your continued support and standing up for a private-by-default Web3.

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Updated: 15th May 2025

In March 2023, Beam released the Beam Bridge, opening up a privacy gateway for the Web3 community, to conduct cross-chain transfers between Ethereum and the private-by-default Beam blockchain.

In December 2023, we launched the “Beam to Ethereum” side of the bridge, completing the bidirectional connection between Beam and Ethereum.

How the “Beam to Ethereum Bridge” Works

The Beam to Ethereum Bridge operates via a series of smart contracts, that lock bridged tokens on the Beam blockchain, and subsequently mint a wrapped copy on the Ethereum blockchain.

For example, if you wish to bridge 100 $BEAM to Ethereum, the smart contract will lock these tokens, mint 100 $WBEAM (wrapped $BEAM) on Ethereum, and transfer it to your Web3 Wallet (Like MetaMask).

When you wish to bridge tokens back to Beam, your $WBEAM on Ethereum is sent to the Bridge smart contract, simultaneously burning $WBEAM and unlocking your $BEAM on the Beam blockchain.

The $WBEAM is an ERC-20 token that can be used across all Ethereum dApps like Uniswap.

The Uniswap $ETH/$WBEAM trading pair is available here.

The Token ID for $WBEAM is “0xE5AcBB03D73267c03349c76EaD672Ee4d941F499”.

“Beam to Ethereum Bridge” Step-by-Step Tutorial:

1. Open the “Beam to Ethereum Bridge” in the Beam Wallet DAPP Store
2. Select “Beam to Ethereum”
3. Click “1. Ethereum side of the bridge in your web browser”. A pop-up will appear in your browser.
4. In your browser, connect MetaMask to the Bridge dApp.
5. Approve “BEAM” Token. A MetaMask pop-up will appear. Sign the token approval.
6. In your browser, Click “Beam to Ethereum”
7. Copy your Ethereum address and paste it into the “Beam to Ethereum Bridge” dApp in Beam Wallet.
8. Select the amount you wish to bridge to Ethereum, verify the relayer and transaction fees, and select confirm.
9. A small pop-up will appear. Verify the amount (the amount shown will be the bridged amount + relayer fees), and click confirm.
10. The “Send funds” pop-up will appear on the bottom-right corner of your Beam Wallet. Click “Show details”.
11. Verify the transaction details.
12. In ~60 minutes, the bridged funds will appear in your MetaMask Wallet.

1. Open the “Beam to Ethereum Bridge” in My DApp Store

2. Select “BEAM => WBEAM (Ethereum)”

3. Click “1. Ethereum side of the bridge in your web browser”. A pop-up will appear in your browser.

4. In your browser, connect MetaMask to the Bridge dApp.

5. Approve “BEAM” Token. A MetaMask pop-up will appear. Sign the token approval.

6. In your browser, Click “BEAM => WBEAM (Ethereum)”

7. Copy your Ethereum address and paste it into the “Beam to Ethereum Bridge” dApp in Beam Wallet.

8. In your Beam Wallet, paste your Ethereum address. Select the amount you wish to bridge, verify the relayer and transaction fees, and select confirm.

9. A small pop-up for final confirmation will appear. Verify the amount (the amount shown will be the combined bridged amount + relayer fees), and click confirm.

10. The “Send funds” pop-up will appear on the bottom-right corner of your Beam Wallet. Click “Show details”.

11. Verify the transaction details. In a few minutes, the transaction will be completed.

12. In ~60 minutes, the bridged funds will appear in your MetaMask Wallet. Your transaction is now complete!

“Beam to Ethereum Bridge” Relevant Links:

Bridge URL: https://beam-to-eth-bridge.beam.mw/

$WBEAM Token ID: 0xE5AcBB03D73267c03349c76EaD672Ee4d941F499

Uniswap $WBEAM/$ETH Trading Pair: https://app.uniswap.org/swap?outputCurrency=0xE5AcBB03D73267c03349c76EaD672Ee4d941F499&inputCurrency=ETH

Beam Technical Support (Telegram): https://t.me/BeamSupport

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TL;DR: Join the BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023 to help shape the future of Web3, developing anonymous censorship-resistant communication platforms, powered by the private-by-default Beam blockchain and the decentralized open-source Nostr protocol.

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🚀👀 Get ready for an extraordinary experience at the BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023! 📅 Mark your calendars: August 17th - 31st, 2023!🔐 Stay tuned for the official announcement! #BeamxNostrHackathon pic.twitter.com/7wVqvuRy6d

BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023

We’re extremely excited to announce the BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023, an extraordinary opportunity for developers worldwide to participate in a collaborative journey of innovation, creativity, and decentralized application development.

Join us from August 17th to August 31st, 2023, as we unlock the potential of Web3, combining Beam’s industry-leading blockchain privacy with the simplicity and resilience of the open-source Nostr protocol, to deliver novel decentralized social media platforms that are secure, anonymous, and censorship-resistant.

About Beam:

Beam (https://beam.mw) is a private-by-default censorship-resistant Layer-1 blockchain that empowers the Internet of Tomorrow with private metadata, community governance, and untraceable financial transactions.

With an array of cutting-edge features, Beam is the ideal platform for Web3 and private DeFi (PriFi) applications.

About Nostr:

The Nostr protocol (https://nostr.com/) is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media.

To quote Valentin Nagacevschi, “In simpler terms, the NOSTR protocol is a way for people to communicate and share information with each other, without the need for a central authority or server. Imagine you have a group of friends who all want to share updates and messages with each other, but you don’t want to use a central platform like Facebook or Twitter to do it.”

The argument for not wanting to rely on centralized social media platforms is already widely-covered and heavily discussed.

Even Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and user privacy advocate Edward Snowden rely on Nostr for secure and censorship-resistant digital communication.

BeamxNostr:

Reading the one-liner descriptions for Beam and Nostr will easily allow you to see how Beam and Nostr align together in a shared vision, to build the next iteration of the internet “Web3”.

By harnessing the power of the Nostr protocol and Beam’s Web3 infrastructure, developers can integrate the data privacy, censorship-resistance, and secure communication aspects of Beam blockchain with the simplicity and censorship-resistant nature of Nostr, to develop decentralized applications openly accessible to all.

Some examples of DApps that can be created include:

1. Private Instant Messaging (IM) chats and multi-person groups
2. Anonymous tips and donations platforms (similar to Zaps integration with Lightning Network)
3. Anonymized and censorship-resistant social networks

And many more…

Who’s Invited?

The BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023 is open to developers of all backgrounds and expertise levels with experience in building Web Applications using any of the following frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, or even plain HTML/JS).

Whether you are a highly-experienced developer or someone that has just started embarking on your Web3 journey, the BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon is the ideal place to showcase your developer skills, collaborate with like-minded Web3 enthusiasts, and contribute to the advancement of decentralized technology.

Signing up for the BeamxNostr Hackathon 2023:

To participate, submit your application here. Provide us with some details about yourself or your team, including your experience with specific technologies.

If you already have an idea for a project, provide a high-level description to give us a glimpse into your vision.

BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023 Timeline:

Official Hackathon Challenges:

We invite developers to explore the following categories in the Hackathon:

• Privacy-Preserving Social Network
• Private Messenger

While these challenges present exciting opportunities, we also encourage developers to run loose with unparalleled creativity and the freedom to develop their own unique ideas that improve the Beam ecosystem and leverage the Nostr protocol in unprecedented ways.

Acceptance Criteria:

• The submission must be deployed on Beam Dappnet
• A video demo and GitHub repo must be submitted

The Prize Pool:

The Beam x Nostr Summer Hackathon 2023 offers an enticing prize pool to recognize and reward exceptional talent. The prize pool for the BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023 is as follows:

• 1st Place: 26,750 $BEAM (~US $1000)
• 2nd Place: 18,750 $BEAM (~US $700)
• 3rd Place: 13,400 $BEAM (~US $500)

Judges:

Our panel of judges for this hackathon consists of dedicated members from the Beam community, namely: Beam Africa, Jared, DB ✨⟁ , Kekzploit, M4gicpotato, and Maxnflaxl.

These community members bring their expertise, passion, and unique perspectives to the judging process. Alongside them, we also have representatives from the Beam Team, ensuring a fair and comprehensive evaluation of all the innovative projects.

With such an exceptional lineup of judges, participants can look forward to receiving valuable feedback and recognition for their hard work and creativity.

Judging Criteria:

• Originality and innovation in the implementation of the Nostr protocol on the Beam platform
• User experience and ease of use for social-related interactions
• Relevance and impact on the overall Beam ecosystem
• Technical feasibility and implementation quality

Hackathon Winners Announcement:

The winners of the Beam x Nostr Summer Hackathon 2023 will be announced in mid-September.

Stay tuned for updates and be prepared to celebrate the outstanding projects that shape the future of Web3 and digital privacy.

Conclusion:

The Beam x Nostr Summer Hackathon 2023 is an extraordinary opportunity for developers to unleash their creativity, collaborate with Web3 and privacy fanatics, and contribute to the evolution of the internet.

We invite you all to come together to shape a decentralized future where privacy, communication, and innovation thrive. Join us on an exhilarating journey where you receive limitless freedom to transform your ideas and concepts into digital reality!

Sign-up for the Beam & Nostr Summer Hackathon 2023 here.

Beam x Nostr Summerl Hackathon 2023 Resources:

• Hackathon Google Form Sign-up Link: https://forms.gle/XHB3FXsQk5FCaTfx6
• Hackathon Beam Forum post: https://forum.beam.mw/t/beam-x-nostr-hackathon-summer-2023/726
• Hackathon Telegram Group: https://t.me/beam_x_nostr_hackathon_august_23
• Reach out to Beam CTO Alex Romanov on Telegram (@bigromanov) for questions and consultations.
• Tag us (@beamprivacy) on Twitter for any queries with the hashtag #BeamxNostrHackathon, and we’ll reply directly with answers.

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Announcing The BeamxNostr Summer Hackathon 2023: BUIDL The Future of Web3 Privacy was originally published in BEAM Privacy on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

(Version July 19th 2023)

Introduction

Beam (beam.mw) is the most advanced Proof-of-Work (PoW) Layer-1 privacy blockchain, where all transactions are concealed by default and no information about the sender, the receiver or the amount is visible on-chain.

The management of the development of the Beam platform is currently transitioning from the non-profit Beam Foundation (www.beam-foundation.org) towards a BeamX DAO (https://www.beamxdao.org).

Moreover, Beam’s Confidential Assets (privacy tokens), privacy-preserving Smart Contracts and Decentralized Apps (DApps) have recently opened the path to building the ultimate Privacy DeFi (PriFi) experience.

To bootstrap this new PriFi ecosystem, the BeamX DAO decided to reward participants who bring liquidity and stability to certain key elements of the system during the next two years.

This guide explains how to participate and take advantage of these rewards.

What is BEAMX?

BEAMX is the Governance token for the Beam PriFi Ecosystem. $BEAMX is mainly used for voting on BeamX DAO on-chain decision proposals by staking it through the voting DApp.

Just like $BEAM itself (and all the other Confidential Assets on Beam blockchain), all BEAMX transactions are completely private and untraceable.

The total supply of BEAMX is fixed at 100,000,000 tokens that were minted during the DAO launch in 2021. At that time, the BeamX DAO held a three-month promotional staking program that required locking BEAM tokens risk-free in order to farm some BEAMX. A total of 1,000,000 BEAMX tokens (i.e. 1% of the total supply) were distributed during that program.

Now that the Beam PriFi Ecosystem is up and running, the BeamX DAO has decided to distribute more BEAMX tokens to those helping strengthen some of the ecosystem’s main building blocks.

We will explain in this guide the options currently available for “Farming BEAMX”.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The asset id of BEAMX on the mainnet chain is Id 7. The asset id is the only unique identifier of a Confidential Asset. While other metadata, including asset name and symbol, may be duplicated, the asset id is the one you need to check to make sure you are trading the correct asset (and not possibly a fake one). Always look for BEAMX (7) when making trading decisions.

Where can I buy BEAMX?

BEAMX can be acquired on the Beam DEX (Decentralized Exchange). There are several pools available, the most notable being the BEAM / BEAMX pool.

To check the price dynamics and many other stats of the Beam DEX you can visit BeamAssets.com, a community-maintained resource that provides detailed information about all DEX pools and trades.

See the following images for an example of buying BEAMX with BEAM using the DEX DApp.

Farming BEAMX

Currently, there are two main ways to farm the BEAMX token:

• Providing and locking liquidity to the DEX BEAM / BEAMX Liquidity Pool (the one with 1% fee tier).
• Providing Nephrite stablecoin tokens (NPH Id 47) to the Nephrite Stability Pool.

1) Providing liquidity to the BEAM / BEAMX pool

Like in most Automated Market Maker (AMM) based Decentralized Exchanges (DEX), liquidity providers for any liquidity pool (LP) receive “LP tokens” that represent their share of that liquidity pool. Those tokens entitle them to a proportionate share of the pool’s trading fees (which are automatically added to their liquidity position after each trade).

The following images illustrate how to add liquidity to the BEAM / BEAMX pool. Please remember that an equivalent value of both tokens must be provided. The needed proportions will be automatically computed.

To further incentivize the liquidity providers for the BEAM / BEAMX pool (and soon also the BEAM / NPH and BEAMX / NPH pools too), the BeamX DAO decided (by a DAO vote on epoch 18, in March 2023) to create a farming program that distributes BEAMX tokens in exchange for locking these specific LP tokens into the farming contract for periods of time ranging from 1 up to 12 months. Thus, 6,000,000 BEAMX tokens (i.e. 6% of the total supply) will be distributed this way over the next two years.

The LP token for the BEAM / BEAMX pool is called AMML (Id 50), indicating that the asset Id of this specific LP token on Beam chain is 50 (other LP tokens will have the same name, but different Id).

To lock the LP tokens, you must open the “Beam Liquidity Mining” DApp in the wallet DApp Store. Enter the desired amount of AMML (50) tokens you want to lock and the lock period.

IMPORTANT: As long as your LP tokens will be locked, you will not be able to retrieve the BEAM and BEAMX tokens you added to the Liquidity Pool.

Once the transaction is confirmed you will see the number of BEAMX your farm increase each day.

A “Claim” button will allow you to claim these rewards at any time (although the LP tokens are locked for a period of time, the BEAMX rewards are not). You can create as many farming positions as you want, each with a different lock period.

IMPORTANT: The longer the lock period, the higher the amount of BEAMX received. For instance, an AMML (50) token locked for 12 months will receive double the amount of $BEAMX each day than if it was locked for 6 months only.

2) Participating in the Nephrite Stability Pool

Nephrite NPH (47) is a confidential overcollateralized stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar. It uses Collateralized Debt Positions (CDPs) to ensure that 1 NPH = 1 USD at all times.

IMPORTANT: To get more information about the Nephrite project, and how to install and use the DApp, please read the Nephrite Manifesto and the Nephrite User Guide hosted by the BeamBots project.

One of the key mechanisms in Nephrite is the Stability Pool in which users can stake their NPH tokens, which could be used by the system to liquidate undercollateralized positions in case of emergencies, such as a rapid decline of the collateral price.

To incentivize staking in this stability pool, the BeamX DAO decided (by a DAO vote epoch 18, in March 2023) to allocate 6,000,000 BEAMX tokens (i.e. 6% of the total supply) to be distributed to the stability pool participants over the next two years.

To stake your NPH (47) tokens, open the Nephrite DApp in the wallet DApp Store and go to the Stability Pool.

Once you have staked your NPH tokens there, you will see the number of BEAMX you farm increase each day.

A “Claim” button will allow you to claim these rewards at any time. Neither the NPH tokens nor the BEAMX rewards are locked. You can thus add or remove NPH tokens whenever you want.

That’s it for the two options currently available to farm BEAMX and get rewards for bringing liquidity and stability to the Beam PriFi Ecosystem.

Happy Confidential BEAMX Farming!

If you need help or have questions, please join one of Beam’s social channels, and in particular Telegram or Discord.

🤝 Acknowledgments:

• Alex Romanov, CTO of Beam Privacy, for authoring the original article.
• DB @dbadol, Beam community member, for making adjustments and providing feedback.

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TL;DR Release Highlights:

• Added user-friendly features such as asset IDs
• Updated the address generation process, providing users with an additional layer of security.
• We are aware that some DApps may have an unfriendly interface, so we ask for your patience as development is underway.

Improvements:

• Added support for several DApps to the Beam Privacy Wallet on iOS including BeamX DAO, BeamX DAO Voting, and the Beam DEX.
• Added support for several DApps to the Beam Privacy Wallet on Android including BeamX DAO and BeamX DAO Voting. The Beam DEX DApp will be available in the near future.
• Endpoint renamed to Wallet Signature
• Added confidential asset IDs

Fixes:

• Fixed several bugs and issues that were affecting the performance and stability of Beam Wallet.

Known limitations:

• While we continue to improve the Beam Mobile Wallet, please note that certain DApps (such as the Faucet, Asset Minter, Beam Bridge, Liquidity Mining and NFT Gallery) may have limited support. Our team is working diligently to bring the complete Beam DApp Store experience to smartphones.
• Do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments. Limit one offline address to each transaction.

Points to mention:

• When restoring your funds in automatic mode, verify that your most recent transaction (from any device) was completed at least 1 hour ago. Otherwise, your restored balance may be incorrect and an additional restore procedure will be required.

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With the discussion around the Confidential Asset issuance amount having kicked off in the forum last week, the time has come to vote on the very first BeamX Improvement Proposals, BIPs. The first and second BIP, namely BIP 1 and BIP 2, are now live on the forum and ready for the community vote to begin.

Vote now!

BIP 1 — Reduce CA minting cost

BIP 2 — Directing CA mint fee to miners

Both BIPs will be up for voting until 1 PM GMT on Friday the 13th.

The first BIP covers the reduction in $BEAM required to issue new Confidential Assets.

The second BIP covers a change that was brought up in the CA discussions. Currently $BEAM is locked in order to issue a new CA. BIP 2 proposes to have $BEAM as an issuance fee going to miners to compliment the current block rewards.

These first two BIPs will have voting conducted off chain in the Beam Forum. This is to enable the updates to take place in the upcoming Hardfork, scheduled for mid June. Forthcoming BIPs will have voting completed via the Beam Governance Dapp, with discussions surrounding them continuing to take place in the forum.

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Beam Improvement Proposals — BIP 1 & BIP 2 was originally published in BEAM Privacy on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Discussion took place on the Beam Forum around the upcoming Hardfork, namely to do with a reduction in the Confidential Asset issuance amounts. A lot of great points and feedback were shared from the community. From this BIP 1 and BIP 2 were presented to the community to vote on for the upcoming Hardfork.

BIP 1 — Reduce CA minting cost

BIP 1 was to decide the new amount for the Beam CA issuance cost.

Voting has now concluded, with the community voting for the new cost to issue Beam Confidential Assets being 10 Beam. This change will come into effect after the Hardfork in mid June at block 1,790,000.

BIP 2 — Directing CA mint fee to miners

BIP 2 was to decide if the CA fee should go to miners, or remain as it currently is with the Beam locked in order to issue the asset.

Voting has now concluded, with the community voting to keep the current structure with the Beam locked in order to issue the Confidential Assets. No change on this front will come with the upcoming Hardfork.

Future BIPs

These will likely be the first and last BIPs where voting is conducted off chain. It was done so in order to enact any change with the upcoming Hardfork. Future BIPs will utilise the BeamX DAO Governance Dapp in order to conduct onchain voting.

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Beam — BIP 1, BIP 2 Results was originally published in BEAM Privacy on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Release Date: 19th of May

TL;DR Release Highlights:

• The hard fork took place at block 1,670,000 on the Testnet. To continue using your Testnet funds please upgrade your Testnet wallets!
• Numerous infrastructure improvements so that BEAM wallet (and Dapps in particular) work even more seamlessly and intuitively than before (90+ tasks in total — see in details here and here)

Improvements:

Plentiful user-oriented improvements have been implemented, including:

• Clearer notifications/errors/confirmations for users, so you won’t miss anything.
• Implemented IPFS integration. Support Documentation.
• Added support of HFTx (High-frequency transactions).
• Ability to recover a web wallet from a mobile recovery file.
• Wallet API users can now sign user messages correctly.
• Added Drag and Drop for the DApp store page. And lots of other minor interface improvements.
• Added social networks to the publisher page, now they can be linked to the profile.
• Linux version is now displayed properly on smaller resolutions.

Known limitations:

• When using active laser beam channels the CLI wallet should not be offline for over 24 hours
• Once generated, do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments

Points to mention:

• Upon using Atomic Swaps with ETH, DAI, WBTC, and USDT, users will have to create an account on Infura.
• The sender of funds to a receiver’s Public Offline Address might be able to know that those funds are later being used by the receiver. Beam wallet and Beam explorer do not expose such functionality but it’s possible to derive this information by analyzing the Blockchain.

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Groovy Gluon 7.0  —  Testnet Release Notes was originally published in BEAM Privacy on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Release Date: June 2nd

TL;DR Release Highlights:

• This version supports the Hard Fork which will take place at block height 1,820,000 (end of June). To continue using your funds please upgrade your wallets!
• Numerous infrastructure improvements so that BEAM wallet (and Dapps in particular) work even more seamlessly and intuitively than before (90+ tasks in total — see in details here and here)

Improvements:

Plentiful user-oriented improvements have been implemented, including:

• Clearer notifications/errors/confirmations for users, so you won’t miss anything.
• Implemented IPFS integration. Support Documentation.
• Added support of HFTx (High-frequency transactions).
• Ability to recover a web wallet from a mobile recovery file.
• Wallet API users can now sign user messages correctly.
• Added Drag and Drop for the DApp store page. And lots of other minor interface improvements.
• Added social networks to the Dapp publisher page, now they can be linked to the profile.
• Linux version is now displayed properly on smaller resolutions.

Known limitations:

• When using active laser beam channels the CLI wallet should not be offline for over 24 hours
• Once generated, do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments
• One more line was added in known limitations DApp Store — On Ubuntu 22+ apps list will not load icons

Points to mention:

• Upon using Atomic Swaps with ETH, DAI, WBTC, and USDT, users will have to create an account on Infura.
• The sender of funds to a receiver’s Public Offline Address might be able to know that those funds are later being used by the receiver. Beam wallet and Beam explorer do not expose such functionality but it’s possible to derive this information by analyzing the Blockchain.

Verifying release binaries
PGP key: “A6C6 2C9F 5593 1860 AFF8 3BBB 997E AB9F 3DF7 F375”

1. Go to https://keybase.io/beammw and get the Public PGP key.
2. Download the signed binary file (with extension .asc) you want to verify.
3. Verify the signature using PGP Suite or any other PGP verification tools

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Groovy Gluon 7.0.13064 was originally published in BEAM Privacy on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.