Following our good tradition, we are happy to welcome you in this biweekly update on Beam! Despite extremely tough circumstances created by COVID-19, Team Beam continues to operate properly, moving forward on their roadmap. Over the past two weeks, the development of the project was quite vivid. The first open-source pool software was shared with the community and is now ready for any budding pool operators to get set up and running. The software has been a collaborative effort between Greg from Icemining, and Raskul from Beam, and is licensed under the MIT License. By the way, Raskul prepared an in-depth guide so that you will be able to find out what you need to get a pool operational. Dev team has also started regression testing for the Double Doppler 4.2. All in all, there were 93 commits in Beam last week.

Furthermore, in the latest weekly update, it was shared that a fantastic initiative had come from community member Thomas V., who offered to set up a Beam Team for Folding@home. This software puts unused computer resources to work in order to find cures for diseases like cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Influenza, and many more. They have more recently been working on simulations of COVID-19 proteins to push forward with efforts to find a cure, which is especially important now.

As for the social side, Beam continues to support and educate the community remotely, since lots of crypto events were postponed or canceled due to the outbreak. In the last report, they provided the readers with some useful resources to spend time at home efficiently. Currently, Beam events are mostly arranged in Africa. One of the Beamers, Groot, represented Beam Africa as a guest speaker at CyberCon Portharcourt by Okon Divine Imeh, where conversations touched upon data security, privacy, cybersecurity, and blockchain technology solutions. Moreover, the Lagos ambassador Niran designed a survey and collected data from the Beam African community to find out The Disruptive Ways to Utilize Beam In Africa. Among them were borderless transactions, improved governance, and much more!

Beam is known all over the world, which leads to plenty of mentions in international media and articles. The community is growing along with the activity in social networks and chat. Follow Beam updates and stay home!