Beam Africa Monthly Community Update: September Edition
Covering Beam Africa community activities between 3rd September - 5th October 2020.
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September’s Highlight
It was an amazing month marked by remarkable conversations about creating a sustained change in Africa with the disruptive technology we’ve all come to love - Cryptocurrency. The Beam Africa was able to organize two events with exceptional individuals across the African continent. Conversations spanned across DeFi, cryptocurrency, the need for privacy, and confidential DeFi, it was truly epic.
The first conversation was with Roselyn Wanjiru, the Director of Growth at Pesabase, and the other conversation was with Maloney and Emeka, the guys behind Blockchain Talk Hard Podcast. These conversations have laid the groundwork for a new initiative the Beam team is working on towards impacting Africa.
There were also a number of contribution from the African ambassadors as well as community events that went down in the month of September, it’s safe to say that September was a busy month for the Beam Africa community.
SNIPPETS
An exceptional Video AMA session featuring Beam’s Tech Lead, Alex Romanov, and Pesabase Director of Growth, Roselyne Wanjiru, on the “Future of Confidential DeFi in Africa” moderated by our Team Lead, Agbona Igwemoh. An epic conversation, and a must-watch for every enterprising African.
The Beam Tech Lead, Alex Romanov was also a guest of The Blockchain Talk Hard Podcast hosted by Khaya Maloney. And the conversation surrounded Privacy, as an essential in a digital economy.
Beam launched it’s updated Roadmap, which highlights the plan towards Confidential DeFi. And several Africa blogs covered this amazing development. We had our friends at CryptoTv+, Cryptodose and BlockNewsAfrica all helping to provide coverage as the African crypto community does its part in promoting privacy and the need for Beam.
In recent weeks, we’ve had several updates coming out from both Beam Africa and the global Beam project translated to French. We have our newest African Ambassador Margarita Bodipo to thank for all her efforts.
Beam launched the 5.1 updates to the desktop wallet, this comes with a lot of exciting technical changes that make for an improved product. More coming right up.
Community Activities
We had some remarkable community activities in September, the highlight could be the “The Future of Confidential DeFi” which features key personalities in the space. Roselyn Wanjiru shared remarkable insights on challenges Africans face in accessing financial services, and believes this provides and opportunity for cryptocurrencies to solve this age long problem. Alex talks about the importance technology, but emphasizes that dialogue is important in understanding how technology can solve these problems Africans face.
In other News, Alex Romanov was also a guest at the Blockchain Talk Hard Podcast which happens periodically and is hosted by two exceptional Africans in persons of Maloney and Emeka. An exciting conversation that centers around “Privacy as an essential in the digital economy” and amazing conversation, check out the conversation here.
Press around Beam Africa Social Channels
Beam Eager Electron 5.X Summary Notes on LeoFinance by Groot
A couple of threads by our ambassadors on features of the Beam wallet, testing the 5.1 desktop wallet, what the 5.1 latest release means for Africans and a deeper look at new Confidential DeFi concept
A number of articles were translated to French by our very own Margaret. Including the Beam Roadmap update, check the Beam African official Medium page for more.
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