Web3's leading privacy blockchain. Ushering a new era for crypto with private DeFi!
Bridge from Ethereum to make your $ETH, $USDT and $wBTC private-by-default.
🔒The latest #Beam Biweekly brings development updates, the community spotlight, and more.
This edition features the new Beam DEX release, improvements to the Explorer Node, and more.
Read the June 2026 Ed. #1
https://t.co/2aNn5wwbOd
🔒The easiest way to onboard yourself to the cypherpunk side of #Web3 is:
1. Download #Beam Wallet
2. Acquire 1 $BEAM (1 BEAM = 1000 private-by-default transactions)
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!
💰 HOW CAN YOU BUY $BEAM?
It's not super easy, but there are a few options.
First, please know that in most cases (except maybe MEXC and GATE), liquidity will be low. That's a common curse of coins with low market... So, if you want to buy a lot, be prepared to spread your purchase in small pieces. 🔷🔹🔹
You can see a list of available options in https://t.co/WI037eQKNM.
In terms of centralized exchanges, if you stay below certain thresholds (e.g. ~10 BTC), MEXC and GATE won't ask for KYC... until they sometimes randomly do, we don't know why. 👮🪪
CoinEx will certainly ask for KYC. And luckily, NONKYC will never do (as it names implies! 😅).
A more decentralized (and certainly non-KYC'ed) way to buy $BEAM is to bridge $ETH or $USDT from Ethereum and then use the Beam DEX to swap them for $BEAM. Both the bridge dApp and the DEX are available right within the desktop wallet. 🌉
Note that $WBTC and $DAI can also be bridged into Beam, but the DEX pools for those are even thinner.
If the Beam DEX liquidity is too low for your appetite, you can also publish an OTC offer which will be broadcasted anonymously to all wallets for a period of 12 hours. If someone accepts it, the swap will happen automatically. Head for the "Swap" button in the desktop wallet. 🔁
For OTC, I suggest to publish multiple small offers rather than a single big one, so that people can accept smaller chunks if they want...
For the crypto purists, Beam can also do anonymous atomic swaps with many coins (BTC, LTC, ETH, DASH, DOGE...). And guess what... it's all done from within the wallet! I think the broadcast of the offer is currently not working, but you can share its ID elsewhere for people to copy-paste it if they want to accept it… ✨
Lastly, there is also a wrapped version of Beam available on Ethereum, and there's a Uniswap pool for it (the CA is given in https://t.co/WI037eQKNM).
This $WBEAM is a transparent Ethereum token, but you can unwrap it back into the Beam blockchain, by using the corresponding dApp (again... available within the desktop wallet! 😁). 🦄
That's it! Try the one method you prefer, and if you have any question, please ask here on X, in Telegram or on Discord. Beam users will be happy to help! 🤝
Welcome to Beam! 😘
@SovereignCityHQ Beam does private-by-default transactions, Beam Asset Minter that lets you create your own privacy coins, smart contracts/dApps for private DeFi, private stablecoins, and more :)
DEXs on public chains like Ethereum and Solana expose your swaps.
what you bought. when you bought. how much you moved.
#Beam DEX is built for private DeFi.
👉 https://t.co/YwXCm1tHWw
everything featured in this mega 🧵 is already accessible inside #Beam Wallet.
no extra tabs. no third-party detours. just the full Beam ecosystem in one place.
https://t.co/tNQXZ360WY
there is nothing quite like #Beam Wallet in the #Web3 privacy landscape.
the desktop wallet gives you access to everything without leaving the wallet:
🔹private p2p transactions
🔹private DeFi
🔹privacy coin minter
🔹private stablecoins
🔹pre-installed dApps
🔹ethereum bridge
Beam uses ECC (secp256k1) like Bitcoin/ETH, so yes, discrete log is quantum-vulnerable via Shor's algorithm.
But Beam's Mimblewimble has built-in *switch commitments* for mitigation:
- Pedersen commitments are computationally hiding (good for privacy) but not perfectly binding (quantum could forge amounts).
- They hash an ElGamal commitment (perfectly binding, quantum-resistant) into the blinding factor.
- On upgrade (soft fork), nodes switch to verifying the ElGamal part. The hash prevents quantum advantage.
It's not fully post-quantum yet (signatures need separate PQC later), but this protects confidential txs proactively. See Beam CTO AMA for details.
📢Beam Anonymous Naming Service (BANS) Update:
The next BANS release will include a fix that makes it possible to purchase previously expired BANS domains again.
The update will go live on May 30th 12:00UTC.
Check if you have any expired domains and extend them if needed.
Study Beam Warp on @beamprivacy for some of the best and latest innovations in recent months:
- Scalable private DeFi
- Scalable private stablecoins
- P2P Cash
- Chat and groupchat
- Scalable private DEX
- Sub second to finality
- Private escrow for Ai agents
All truly decentralized and censorship resistant.
Beam can be considered the innovator of the industry. Always has been.
Everything that @beamprivacy has built, will find its way on other blockchains years later.
In the meantime Beam continues to operate in the future, while the rest is only following.
Yes First and above all, censorship-resistance (through decentralization AND privacy).
Simply because that’s the ONLY reason crypto has to exist! Anything else, TradFi can do better. 😅
But then, we are in 2026. Computers, math and cryptography have progressed. We can now ALSO expect speed, throughput, scalability.
And it is needed, not really for private payments, but because of private DeFi, privacy-preserving smart contracts, confidential dApps. Those need to be fast. Private, but also fast.
So yes, we must keep the priorities in good order (privacy and decentralization first) but we must work on all fronts. It’s possible to get all of it.
Example: Beam Warp is a fast sidechain with the same privacy features and the same smart contract capabilities as @BeamPrivacy… but with 3-second to finality! 🤯
It’s currently running on devnet. And it could reach 1-second to finality by the time it moves to testnet.
Crypto (the true crypto, not the scammy casino circus) is moving forward! ✊🏼