Welcome to the official newsletter from Beam.
In our previous newsletter, we introduced the new horizon with four grand updates in Abu Dhabi, BeamAI, BeamL1, and lastly, the Beam Nodes. We looked back at the previous year, and looked ahead at everything that’s coming up. Since then, the Beam Nodes have arrived, and so did a new treasury report and a new community event!
Read on for a summary of what’s been happening and what’s to come.
Beam Nodes are live
We’re excited to share that the Beam Nodes are now live! This means that everyone can start claiming their Node Tokens, setting up their validator nodes and/or stake their $BEAM and/or Node Tokens to start earning rewards. Below you can find a list of places to visit to learn more.
Claim your Node Tokens: nodes.onbeam.com/claim
Delegation dashboard: delegation.onbeam.com
Documentation: docs.onbeam.com
Discord: discord.gg/beamgamers
Telegram: t.me/buildonbeam
Please be cautious with links from anything outside the above claiming to be official.
Treasury report Q4, 2024 🏦
During the past quarter, the Treasury increased from $228,461,294 as of September 30th 2024 to $238,678,709 as of December 31st 2024.
This represents an increase of 4.47% compared to the previous quarter. During the same period, Bitcoin was up by 47.14%, while ETH was up by 28.06%. The total crypto market cap, represented by the CCI30 index, saw a rise of 54.38%
There were 14,458,266 BEAM tokens purchased and burned during Q4 2024.
Read the full report here.
Two big launches: Forgotten Playland and Castle of Blackwater launching end of March
March is a special month. We have two games that are closely related to the Beam ecosystem going live, Castle of Blackwater and Forgotten Playland. One thing they both have in common? They’re highly social games and they’re launching in a major game stores. Wishlist today, and be the first one to play!
Forgotten Playland launching March 27th on Epic Games Store
Castle of Blackwater launching March 25th on Steam
Water Toren 3.0 - BEAMFEST 2025 🗼
We’ve been very fortunate with a dedicated group of supporters ever since we started out more than three years ago now. Once a year, we all get together in Amsterdam to celebrate Beam and share our plans for the foreseeable future. This year again, we meet up in Amsterdam. Mark down the date, the 17th of May, 14:00-23:00. RSVP soon.
New games building on Beam
We’re thrilled to continuously have a large influx of exciting games joining the Beam network. Following names such as TrialXtreme, Forgotten Playland, Castle of Blackwater, Edenhorde and many others we have recently added a variety of new games.
The official launch of Flaunch – The next-gen memecoin launchpad
A few months back, we helped with the merger of NFTx and FloorDAO into the new protocol Flayer. After months of heads-down working, they have now launched their first product: Flaunch, a memecoin launchpad. It uses the novel contracts from Uniswap v4 to bring fair launches to a new level.
BeamAI podcast
As part of our new AI vertical, we’ve launched a report on the implications of AI within the gaming world. This report may be somewhat too academic for some, and therefore we decided to use the wonders of AI and turn it into a podcast. There’s currently two episodes out on Spotify and all other platforms, with 4 more to come!
Listen to the first episode here.
Together, we grow
It’s been a fun two months once again. We’ve seen the launch of Beam Nodes, two major game releases on the horizon, and the Beam family just keeps growing. Stay tuned as we head towards May, and the upcoming BEAMFEST 2025!
Together, we’re changing the game!
Our next newsletter will be sent May 2025.