BEAM Newsletter - 2018 Week #42

Covering Oct. 11th - 18th 2018

#BEAM_News

• We had an amazing time at the SFBW18 “The Privacy Hype!” panel

• Bryan Bishop joined the gang

• Team BEAM will attend the Tel-Aviv Blockchain Summit / October 18th 2018

• Meet Team BEAM at the Vilnius FinTech Week / Tue, October 23, 2018

• We’ve launched our Ambassador Program

#BEAM_Community

• 3 planned meetups for this month:

  • Toronto

  • Lagos (coming soon)

  • Los Angeles (coming soon)

• Team BEAM is on-boarding 2 new Ambassadors in New Delhi and in Europe, and 1 Consul in China. Stay tuned.

• Meet Team BEAM on 2 new Telegram channels dedicated to Mimblewimble: Mimblewimble Community & Mimblewimble Tech and Coins

#BEAM_Content

• BEAM’s FAQ is live

• What is MimbleWimble? | What Do We Know About Grin and Beam?

• What’s the difference between Zcash, Monero, and Beam?

• 1KX Capital speaking about BEAM with CNBC Crypto Trader

#BEAM_Dev

We have implemented the following features:

• Dandelion with transaction merging along the stem phase

• Optimized data structures for storing UTXOs

• Node self initialization from macro block

• New transaction infrastructure to support Atomic Swaps and opt-in Auditable transactions

We are working on the following features:

• Atomic Swaps

• Mobile Wallet

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