Ethereum Beam Chain update: 8 new teams join, and plans to change their name due to "Beam" trademark issues

PANews February 18th news, Ethereum core developer Justin.eth Drake shared the progress of Beam Chain's first community conference call on Twitter, and announced that February 28 is the time of the second conference call, and will focus on technology. progress. Since the "Beam" name involves trademark issues, the project will be renamed.

The meeting summarized the joining of 8 new teams, the support of 6 mainnet consensus layer teams, and the introduction of 2 new coordinators who joined the Ethereum Foundation. At present, Beam Chain has a total of 14 consensus-level teams, covering all continents except Antarctica, using multiple programming languages ​​including Zig, C, C++, C#, etc., and has emerged with multiple self-funded teams. Justin believes that Beam Chain provides an excellent entry point for developers to deeply understand the underlying technology of Ethereum L1.

In addition, the conference explored the key role of ZKVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) technology in Beam Chain and announced a series of research and development plans, including ZK acceleration and multilingual support.

Previously, researchers from the Ethereum Foundation proposed the consensus layer upgrade proposal " Beam Chain ", which is called "Ethereum 3.0" by the community .