Hello & Welcome, Beamers! We are happy to point out that both the development and social parts of Beam life are vivid. Recently, they have released the Atomic Swap on Testnet, and you are invited to test swaps between BEAM and BTC, LTC, or QTUM. Documentation and guides will be provided soon. They have launched Testnet Double Doppler 4.0. Both own nodes and Electrum are supported. Swaps can be performed peer-to-peer directly by sending the swap token via any secured communication channel or initiated via an atomic swap marketplace built-in into our desktop wallet. It is worth to notice that the desktop wallet became more usable and even more eye-pleasing in general. During week 46, there were 219 open issues in /Beam, 42 open issues in /android-wallet, and 27 open issues in /ios-wallet. They also had 63 commits in /Beam. By the way, Valdok presented Lelantus-MW at GrinCon1 on 22nd November in Berlin.

Apart from development processes, Beam puts a lot of effort on the social side. You can read an interview with Alexander Zaidelson, the CEO of Beam, and find out what he thinks is one of the most humorous things in the crypto blockchain space, and 3 policies he’d enact as the president of ‘a’ country. You should additionally check out a story by Luke Bailey, where he talks about “The Evolution of Privacy Coin Technology”; listen to a podcast about Beam by ZKPodcast.

Moreover, Beam gives feedback on the article recently published by Ivan Bogatyy, claiming that there is no privacy in Mimblewimble. The team responds that the “Breaking Mimblewimble Privacy Model” attack will not be valid on Beam, as Beam’s decoy outputs make it much harder to build the transaction graph. Upcoming Lelantus-MW will make creating the transaction graph virtually impossible even against more sophisticated attacks. The community tends to believe in Beam resistance, and Beamers are super supportive in chats and on Reddit. The number of subscribers in social networks shows constant growth. Well, as always. Stay informed with us!