Hello, and welcome to the biweekly update on Beam! The project did over 65 quality releases in its first year of Mainnet, and the level of development performance remains exceptional. The first milestone to mention is a long-awaited in-depth roadmap for the plans ahead, the reasoning behind them, and what all this will mean for Beam. Lots of upcoming dev releases were featured: Double Doppler with Atomic Swap market-making API, instant payments with Laser Beam, Web Wallet and chrome extension; Eager Electron with Confidential Assets Infrastructure, Bridges, Lelantus MW, and one-side payments: Hard Fork with the change of POW mining algorithm to Beam Hash III. In addition, Beam CTO, Alex Romanov, provided an extremely enlightening video about Confidential DeFi Infrastructure and the applications that could be built on it. Another tech milestones were mentioned in a development update, that was also shared by Beam CTO. He reported that a lot of work was done on confidential assets and Lelantus MW infrastructure, web wallet and wallet service, as well as other tasks in progress. In order to educate the community, a tutorial with simple step-by-step instructions on how proof of payment works on private Beam transactions was shared. Double Doppler 4.1 was upgraded with typos, explanatory messages, elements placements, colors — all to make the app more eye-pleasing and more intuitive to use.

Furthermore, Beam had a pretty active public life over the period and was widely covered in media. Beam’s first-ever female ambassador, Kevine Alobadi, was part of a tech event organized by GDG Abomey-Calavi in Cotonou, Benin Republic. It was an excellent opportunity for her to engage and inform the techies in her local region about Beam and the need for confidential assets. Also, an AMA Session was arranged on Reddit with numerous questions from the community to be answered by Alexander Zaidelson and Alex Romanov. By the way, Adshares, a decentralized ad network, added the support of Beam, so currently, it’s possible to pay for advertising services using Beam token.

The community keeps growing in social networks; community members are also stably active in Telegram and on Reddit. Join them — they are always ready to support newcomers! More info to follow. See you in two weeks!