Beam (BEAM) Price — Buy & Swap BEAM

The story behind Beam

Beam launched in January 2019, just days after a rival project called Grin, as one of the first two production implementations of the Mimblewimble protocol — a scheme an anonymous author had sketched out in 2016 for compressing a blockchain's history while still hiding transaction details. Unlike Grin, which stayed a volunteer effort with no company behind it, Beam was built by a firm with an actual treasury to fund ongoing work, and it later expanded into smart contracts and a confidential DeFi layer built on top of its original privacy design.

What BEAM is used for

You would use BEAM for private transfers that leave no visible addresses or amounts on the public chain at all, and its confidential asset framework lets other tokens be issued with that same privacy baked in, extending the underlying technology beyond just the native coin.

Beam in the market today

Beam is a small-cap privacy coin, more notable for proving Mimblewimble could actually work in production than for its trading volume today. It remains a niche choice next to the far larger Monero and Zcash, and its long-term relevance likely depends more on the ideas it demonstrated than on the coin itself gaining wider adoption.

How to buy or swap BEAM

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