Beam 2020 Week #5

Covering January 27th - February 2nd 2020

Downloads: Beam Android Wallet | Beam iOS Wallet | Beam Desktop Wallet

Beam News

Another great week for Team Beam with the release of our Double Doppler 4.0 Wallet on Android. You can download the new wallet here, and check out the major features in this release:

• Easy onboarding: seed phrase verification is delayed until significant funds are transferred to the wallet

• Import/export transaction history, tags, and addresses

• Ability to clear wallet data with a few clicks

• Face unlock biometric authentication for Pixel 4 users

• Dark mode!!

Alex Romanov gave another excellent Weekly Development Update outlining the new Android wallet features, building blocks for Beam confidential DeFi, merging Confidential Asset support, and refactoring Confidential Assets and Lelantus.

Alex also kicked off the new Beam Tutorial series. Check out the first episode that gives a breakdown of How Beam Works.

Press

• An all encompassing Bi Weekly Beam Update, from Paradigm

• Weekly Development Update in Russian: Еженедельный обзор конфиденциальной криптовалюты Beam от 29 Января 2020, by Alex Romanov

• A new Beam solo mining pool added, by Solo Pool

• Video guide for playing dice on the BeamBet.io, by Vsnation

R&D Updates

• Web wallet frontend - full screen view (completed)

• Web wallet backend - architecture reworked 

  • SBBS monitor ( in progress)

  • Wallet service (in progress)

• Confidential Assets in CLI wallet integration (in progress)

• Using Lelantus MW to hide CA asset type (completed)

• Wallet Notifications ( previously Wallet channels) (in progress)

• New iOS version will be released this week

• Lelantus CLI Wallet integration (in progress)

• HW wallet refactoring (in progress)

Upcoming Events

• Advancing Bitcoin, London, UK | February 6th

• Paxful Peer to Peer Trading, Nairobi, Kenya | February 15th

• Emerging Tech, Lagos, Nigeria | February 28th

• London Blockchain Week, UK | March 4th

• Coinfest UK, Manchester, UK | April 3rd

• AMA with Huobi Nigerian community | 21st February

• AMA with Binance South Africa | March

Community Updates from January

The month of January presented us with many events for Beam and the community. The first birthday celebration for Beam, combined with our first halving, made for an exciting start to the year. Beam Ambassadors managed to attend a number of great events to continue to build a strong community.
Some highlights from the last month:

• Obinna represented on the panel at the OKEx event, The Blockchain Talk, in Nakuru, Kenya.

• Agbona and Niran headed down to the Startup Grind event to keep up to date with the Tech scene in Lagos.

• Tristan introduced the students of Stockholm University to Beam at their annual student orientation.

• Our lovely Kévine brought the techies of Benin Republic up to speed with Beam and the up and coming Confidential Assets.

• Bobby Ong got up-close and personal with Alexander Zaidelson and Alex Romanov in the CoinGecko Podcast.

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