Beam 2020 Week #40 - From 5.1 to 5.2
Covering September 28th - October 4th 2020
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Beam News
The last week saw the massive release of Eager Electron 5.1, bringing the greatly anticipated Offline Transactions to the GUI wallets for desktop. This was a monumental moment, finally “breaking the interactivity” previously required in transactions, and enables users to benefit from the more familiar transaction experience, if they so wish. Let’s take a look at what else came with the 5.1 release, and what to expect with 5.2!
Eager Electron 5.1 :
Offline Transactions, using Lelantus MW
Significant improvements to Atomic Swaps, with SegWit usage and fee calculation
New and revamped settings screen
Numerous bug fixes
With 5.1 behind us, it is time to move towards 5.2, so let’s take a look at what to expect in the next big release!
Eager Electron 5.2 :
Max Privacy, ensuring a minimal anonymity set for transactions
Public offline Address, specifically for donation and similar use cases
Atomic Swaps, adding additional pairs, namely DASH, BCH, BSV, BTG
The 5.2 will be a relatively quick turnaround, with the hope being to have it released in the next month.
Community Call
We figure, after the great time we had in the last community call, it’s time for the sequel! This will offer a great chance to catch up on everything taking place since the last call, and the progress being made on the updated Roadmap.
Date: 18th of October, 2020
Time: 10:00 AM EST
Location: https://zoom.us/j/3266391753
We look forward to seeing you all there, and will make more announcements on this in the days leading up to the call.
Save the date, and see you there!
Research and Development
The latest from Alex in Beam Pulse, giving an in depth overview of 5.1, along with what’s to come in 5.2 and beyond. Tune in, subscribe, and leave your comments below.
Current focuses:
Testing underway for additional pairs for Atomic Swaps
Max privacy is in development
Eager Electron 5.2 will be released in the next few weeks
UI for Confidential Assets is in development
EE 5.1 for Android and iOS in test, with Testnet version to be release soon
Hardware wallet will move to the 5.3 release, and include LelantusMW transactions
Work continues on the Beam Virtual Machine, with initial smart contracts, and initial applications: Confidential Stablecoin, DEX, Automate Marketing Making exchange
Press
An awesome update from Alex, as he speaks with the Digital Cash Network
Another excellent month for Beam Africa, read all about it in their latest update!
The epic AMA with Alex, and Roselyn of Pesabase, hosted by Agbona
NB Miner 32.0 has added Beam V3 support for 3G+ Nvidia cards
Sign up, stay tuned, and see you all next week!
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