Beam Biweekly—Jan 2025 Ed. #1
Covers all the developments in the Beam ecosystem from January 1st - 15th 2025.
Greetings Beamers!
An ambitious kick-off to 2025! — we started the year with Beam’s 6th Anniversary Twitter Space. Our CTO, Alex Romanov, announced the Beam Roadmap for 2025, and many of the latest features coming to Beam this year.
The 6th Anniversary Twitter Space Summary by dbadol2000.
Development Updates
An official update for the Beam Roadmap 2025 is coming to the website soon!
Some of the key features announced:
The Beam Bridge SDK— allowing anyone to create a bridge to any EVM-compatible blockchains.
The Beam Bridge to Arbitrum is in the works!
Several optimisations and improvements to existing dApps.
*WIP* Rust smart contracts, first test version is deployed on the Beam testnet (dappnet).
*WIP* Beam Crowdfunding DApp
Join us for CryptoXR in France on January 31st and February 1st, 2025
Community Spotlight
The complete and unbiased Beam private-by-default ecosystem review by DontTraceMeBruh — an avid Web3 privacy coin researcher and illuminati pepe.
Watch him go through the Beam Wallet and all the dApps, including the Beam Asset Minter, Beam DEX, and the Nephrite dApp.
Imagine an algorithmic stablecoin like $DAI or $LQTY.
But with Beam’s cypherpunk Web3-leading blockchain privacy protocols.
Now you have $NPH.
Our proud feature in the illustriously illustrated Privacy Magazine by TheVladCostea.
Download the free digital version, or purchase a hard copy to support the writer.
P.S. The article about Beam is on page 59.
#BeamDidYouKnow
BeamBridgeBeamBridgeBeamBridge!
That wraps up this edition of the Beam Newsletter. If you haven’t read the last newsletter yet, you can so below.
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Best Regards,
The Beam Team