BeamMW / Beam

Welcome to Beam

BEAM is a next generation scalable, confidential cryptocurrency based on an elegant and innovative Mimblewimble protocol.

Download latest version **Eager Electron 5.1.9898

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Get Beam binaries here: http://beam.mw/downloads

If you build from source please use 'mainnet' branch\

Peers:

eu-nodes.mainnet.beam.mw:8100

us-nodes.mainnet.beam.mw:8100

ap-nodes.mainnet.beam.mw:8100

ap-hk-nodes.mainnet.beam.mw:8100

shanghai-node.mainnet.beam.mw:8100

Latest documentation is here: https://documentation.beam.mw

BUILD FROM SOURCE

Building Instructions

Things that make BEAM special include:

• Users have complete control over privacy - a user decides which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance to his will and applicable laws.
• Confidentiality without penalty - in BEAM confidential transactions do not cause bloating of the blockchain, avoiding excessive computational overhead or penalty on performance or scalability while completely concealing the transaction value.
• No trusted setup required
• Blocks are mined using Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm.
• Limited emission using periodic halving.
• No addresses are stored in the blockchain - no information whatsoever about either the sender or the receiver of a transaction is stored in the blockchain.
• Superior scalability through compact blockchain size - using the “cut-through” feature of Mimblewimble makes the BEAM blockchain orders of magnitude smaller than any other blockchain implementation.
• BEAM supports many transaction types such as escrow transactions, time locked transactions, atomic swaps and more.
• No premine. No ICO. Backed by a treasury, emitted from every block during the first five years.
• Implemented from scratch in C++.

Roadmap

See Beam Roadmap for 2020 on https://beam.mw

Community projects

Here is the list of Beam related projects created by our community members but NOT tested by Beam Team

• Beam Pay - a payment processor that allows for easy integration with your online store
• Beam Wallet Java API - A Java library for the Beam cryptocurrency Wallet API.

Current development status

Mainnet(January 3rd 2019)

• Fully functional wallet with key generator and storage supporting secure and confidential online transactions.
• Full node with both transaction and block validation and full UTXO state management.
• Equihash miner with periodic mining difficulty adjustment.
• Batch Bulletproofs, the efficient non-interactive zero knowledge range proofs now in batch mode
• Graphical Wallet Application for Linux, Mac and Windows platforms
• Offline transactions using Secure BBS system
• ChainWork - sublinear blockchain validation, based on FlyClient idea by Loi Luu, Benedikt Bünz, Mahdi Zamani
• Compact history using cut through

Agile Atom (February 2019)

• Payment and Exchange APIs
• Mining Pool APIs
• Lightning Network position paper

Bright Boson 2.0 (March 2019)

• Payment proof
• Ultra fast sync
• Android Mobile wallet

Clear Cathode 3.0 (July 2019)

• PoW change (BeamHash II)
• Atomic Swaps CLI support
• Relative Time Locks and Laser Beam support

Double Doppler 4.0 (December 2019)

• Atomic Swaps desktop wallet support
• Sync mechanism improvements

Eager Electron 5.0 (May 2020)

• Confidential Assets
• One side payments
• UTXO Unlinking using Lelantus MW