Beam Biweekly—Apr 2025 Ed. #2
Covers all the developments in the Beam ecosystem from April 15th - 30th 2025.
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Greetings Beamers!
April comes to an end! The Beam Team is still hands full with building the Beam Layer-2 “Beam Warp” and the Arbitrum Bridge.
In the broader Web3 ecosystem news, the end of April looked more optimistic than how it started, with the crypto market making a V-shaped recovery; an explosive price-spike of the privacy-coin Monero ($XMR); and Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, scheduled to make an appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast, the biggest podcast related to Blockchain Privacy on X, on May 2nd 2025.
Development Updates
Beam Warp
Work on Practical Byzantine fault tolerance (pBFT) consensus, minor robustness improvements
Bridged asset emission support in the L2 Node (both direct or via contract)
Various fixes and optimizations in the node
hw_crypto (Ledger) fix after migration to a newer gcc compiler
Working on L2 Node bridge component (communication with L1)
Bridge contracts and apps
Beam to Arbitrum Bridge
Work in Progress.
Beam Pay
The latest version of BeamPay was just released with:
Faster, instant Webhooks
More filters (for trusted & spam CAs)
Updated Admin Panel
More frequent blocks tracking
Beam Community Spotlight
We’re grateful for all the love <3
We’re amongst the lucky few EU GDPR-compliant blockchains out there!
The Beam Wallet mini app now available in Telegram — courtesy of @vsnation
#BeamDidYouKnow
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The Beam Team