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Beam

BEAM

  • Digital Currency
Established Year
2018
Operating Status
Active
Beam is a privacy-centric cryptocurrency powered by the Mimblewimble protocol. Unlike Monero or Zcash, MimbleWimble coins enforce privacy on a protocol level, rather than adding layers on top of the original blockchain to achieve privacy. This reduces the load and data stored on the blockchain, which leads to greater scalability.

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11 Investors
$2 M

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What Is Beam (BEAM)?

BEAM is a confidential decentralized finance ([DeFi](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/defi)) platform that runs on a combination of two blockchain protocols (LelantusMW and Mimblewimble). In the early years of the industry, transactions with public-blockchain cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin ([BTC](https://www.coinlive.com/coin/bitcoin)) were thought to be untraceable. With developments in blockchain analysis, it became clear that transactions can actually be traced back to the senders, posing a great threat to users' privacy. To solve this issue, BEAM came up with innovative ways of increasing the anonymity of transactions, address balances and user identities. Beam runs on the Mimblewimble protocol and was launched in March 2018.