Beam 2020 Week #7

Covering February 10th - February 16th 2020

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

Beam News

Another busy week for Beam with the devs already hard at work on the recently released Roadmap for 2020. This week brought with it some interesting news, for Crypto as a whole, and privacy coins in particular. Let’s first jump in and take a look at what’s been happening industry wide:

• Crypto Derivatives Exchange FTX adds PRIV, which tracks a basket of eight privacy coins, Beam included.

• Murmurs from Mnuchin continue, with the Treasury Secretary pointing to plans for Cryptocurrency rules regarding transparency.

• Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, expressed an implied need for privacy in digital currencies.

• Some insights came to light on the extent of the relationship between Chainalysis’, the US Government, and the multimillion-dollar contracts that tie them together.

• Legal issues faced for individuals involved with centralised mixing solutions offering privacy on top of the Bitcoin network.

Some interesting news, with one thing that rings clear; the need for opt in auditability for both individuals and corporations. An important part of Beam’s vision is this ability to remain compliant with relevant regulators, at the users discretion.

This fits well with the latest from the Beam Tutorial series by Alex Romanov: Explaining Payment Proofs. Romanov covers this essential building block for auditability, and how it functions in the Beam wallet.

Romanov also kept us up to date with the developments in progress in the Weekly Development Update.

Press

• Another great Beam Biweekly Update, by Paradigm Fund.

• The above update presented to our Chinese community:
  Beam：更新的路线图发布，Defi基础设施，MimbleWimble新机密资产Lelantus页面，付款证明解释，AMA部分.

• The AMA held in r/CryptoCurreny, with Alex Romanov and Alexander Zaidelson.

• Cryptonews with an in-depth overview of Beam.

• A look into Beam and Mimblewimble by the Russian speaking community in Обзор криптовалюты BEAM на блокчейне Mimblewimble.

• Swap Space adds Beam to their platform.

R&D Updates

• Wallet Notifications - in progress

• Atomic Swap API - complete

  • Testing currently underway

• Web Wallet Service - in progress

• Hardware Wallet refactoring - in progress

• Mimblewimble Confidential Lelantus Assets outlined

• Android release expected this week

• General regression testing will start next week

Upcoming Events

• Tezos meetup, Accra, Ghana | Feb 22nd

• Emerging Tech, Lagos, Nigeria | Feb 28th

• London Blockchain Week, UK | Mar. 4th

• Coinfest UK, Manchester, UK | Apr. 3rd

• AMA in The AMA Room with Alexander Zaidelson, Beam Business Lead | Feb. 17th

• AMA with Huobi Nigerian community | Feb. 21st

Sign up, stay tuned, and see you all next week!

---

Got news or articles to include in these newsletters? Any feedback? Any suggestion?

Drop us a line on marketing@beam.mw or follow us on Twitter.