Beam 6.0 Release Notes

Beam introduced Fierce Fermion 6.0.11.638 — Release Notes.

• Shaders (a.k.a. Smart Contracts) are paving the way to Confidential DeFi. Expect multiple Decentralised Applications (DAPPs) executed in Beam Nodes and Wallets.
• The hard fork to enable Shaders will take place at block 1280000. To continue using your funds please upgrade your wallets prior to reaching the height!
• Confidential Assets have arrived in the Beam Desktop Wallet! Send and receive with regular or max privacy, get payment proofs, see the balance and extended info: we’ve covered pretty much everything to help CAs become first-class citizens.
• Massive update with over 180 tasks and bug fixes at the time of writing to make “everything just work” yet again.

🔸Improvements:

• [node] Embeds a Beam Virtual Machine (BVM) which can run Contract Shaders
• [wallet] Runs App Shaders to enable in-wallet DAPPs (the first apps are already in the works and will be announced very soon)
• [wallet] Embedded DAPP store with the first proof-of-concept DAPPs
• [wallet] Can send and receive Confidential Assets
• [wallet] Send and Receive screens became simple to use, thanks to every community member who pushed us to rework the address-related logic

🔸Known limitations:

• When using active laser beam channels the CLI wallet should not be offline for over 24 hours
• Once generated, do not offer the same offline address to multiple senders of payments

What is Beam?

Beam is Leading the way to Confidential DeFi.

📰 INFO:

https://medium.com/beam-mw/fierce-fermion-6-0-11-638-release-notes-b508f46daa0f