Now that the Mainnet launch is behind us, it is time to share our plans for 2019 and our overall vision.

Our work in 2019 will be focused along two main avenues: Beam Core and Beam Compliance. We are keen and excited to execute on our mission of creating a currency that supports multiple use cases and works for businesses and individuals.

Beam Core is focused on maintaining and improving the Beam currency and payments network, while Beam Compliance is the home for all things related to the opt-in compliance/auditability that will be an integral part of Beam.

In addition to Beam Core and Beam Compliance, we will also invest some resources into Project Lumini. Lumini’s goal is to create a bridge between Beam blockchain and one or more smart-contract blockchains, enable decentralized conversions of tokens into Beam Confidential Assets and allow private trading of those assets. We will be sharing the detailed roadmap later.

The roadmap below states our current intentions and our understanding of the market and technology right now. Obviously, things may (and will) change as we move forward, and so will our roadmap.

We intend to engage with the global developer community and ask for help developing parts of our grand vision.

We are welcoming feedback from the community regarding features that we may have missed, additional interesting projects, and, frankly, anything else.

Beam Core

Our goal for 2019 is to create a vibrant ecosystem around Beam currency, offer better usability, increase adoption, and integrate Beam into global crypto payment infrastructures.

We divided the upcoming work on Beam Core into five major blocks, each named using Physics-related terminology.

Each block will comprise several software releases, not necessarily one major software upgrade.

Agile Atom

Agile Atom release focuses on completing the ecosystem APIs and documentation, and we expect it to be finished in February.

We have also started researching the possibility of integrating Lightning — a second-layer scalability solution for much faster transaction processing. As PoW blockchain, Beam is inherently slow. We estimate current throughput at 17 transactions per second (TPS), and with Lightning, it is possible to reach tens of thousands TPS. Based on the research that is currently underway, we will be releasing a Lightning Position paper and seek community involvement into our work.