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💰 HOW CAN WE BUY $BEAM?
(Nov 2026 update: The non CEX edition)
First, it's worth reminding all good law-abiding citizens that holding and using privacy coins is perfectly legal for people almost everywhere in the world.
What happens is that centralized exchanges (CEXs) are h, and it's getting increasingly difficult for them to provide services for privacy coins. Hence the delistings...
But that's actually ok. We'll do without them. You know, like in "Decentralized Finance"... 😉
So, to buy $BEAM without CEXs, there are a few decentralized options (which naturally don't require any KYC).
Note: Liquidity in DEXs is improving, but you might still find it a bit low. So, if you want to buy a lot, spread your purchase in small pieces over time. 🔹🔹🔹
💠 1. The easy way: buybeam.my
This very convenient service, allows you to buy $BEAM anonymously in a few seconds from a multitude of coins ($BTC, $LTC, $ETH, $SOL, $ZEC, $TRX, $USDT and many other tokens from many EVM chains).
The service is provided by a well-known community dev, who takes cares of aggregating all the available liquidity in the background.
💠 2. The Bridge & the Beam DEX
Another way to buy $BEAM is to bridge $ETH or $USDT from Ethereum and then use the Beam DEX to swap them for $BEAM. Both the bridge dApp and the DEX are available right within the desktop wallet.
$WBTC and $DAI can also be bridged into Beam, but the DEX pools for those are still very thin.
Note: If you need some initial $BEAM to pay for the fees (they are very cheap), just post a Beam address on X, Telegram or Discord and people will send you some coins to help you get started!
💠 3. The Bridge & the OTC market
If the Beam DEX liquidity is too low for your appetite, you can also publish an OTC offer which will be broadcasted anonymously to all wallets for a period of 12 hours. If someone accepts it, the swap between the confidential assets will happen automatically (and anonymously, of course).
Simply head for the "Swap" button in the desktop wallet!
For OTC, I suggest to publish multiple small offers rather than a single big one, so that people can accept smaller chunks if they want...
💠 4. Wrapped BEAM on Uniswap
To help users coming from the surveillance side of crypto (i.e. the transparent chains), there is a wrapped version of Beam available on Ethereum. And there's a Uniswap pool for it:
app.uniswap.org/swap?outputCur…
$WBEAM is a normal *transparent* Ethereum token, but you can unwrap it back into the Beam blockchain, by using the corresponding dApp (which is -guess what- available within the Beam desktop wallet! 😁). 🦄
Beware! You might sometimes see another transparent coin called $BEAM (or sometimes $BEAMX). That's not the privacy Beam! It's a gaming token which they stupidly renamed "Beam", with total contempt for the other existing blockchain... 🤬
💠 5. Atomic Swaps
Lastly, for the crypto purists, Beam can also do anonymous atomic swaps with many coins ($BTC, $LTC, $ETH, $DASH, $DOGE ...). And again, it's all done from within the desktop wallet! 😎
I think the 12-hour broadcast of the atomic swap offers is currently not working, but you can still share your offer's ID elsewhere for people to copy-paste it if they want to accept it… ✨
💠 Conclusion
Those above are the main non-CEX ways to buy $BEAM. Try the one method you prefer, and if you have any question, please ask here on X, in Telegram or on Discord. Beam users will be happy to help! 🤝
Welcome to Beam! 😘
(Nov 2026 update: The non CEX edition)
First, it's worth reminding all good law-abiding citizens that holding and using privacy coins is perfectly legal for people almost everywhere in the world.
What happens is that centralized exchanges (CEXs) are h, and it's getting increasingly difficult for them to provide services for privacy coins. Hence the delistings...
But that's actually ok. We'll do without them. You know, like in "Decentralized Finance"... 😉
So, to buy $BEAM without CEXs, there are a few decentralized options (which naturally don't require any KYC).
Note: Liquidity in DEXs is improving, but you might still find it a bit low. So, if you want to buy a lot, spread your purchase in small pieces over time. 🔹🔹🔹
💠 1. The easy way: buybeam.my
This very convenient service, allows you to buy $BEAM anonymously in a few seconds from a multitude of coins ($BTC, $LTC, $ETH, $SOL, $ZEC, $TRX, $USDT and many other tokens from many EVM chains).
The service is provided by a well-known community dev, who takes cares of aggregating all the available liquidity in the background.
💠 2. The Bridge & the Beam DEX
Another way to buy $BEAM is to bridge $ETH or $USDT from Ethereum and then use the Beam DEX to swap them for $BEAM. Both the bridge dApp and the DEX are available right within the desktop wallet.
$WBTC and $DAI can also be bridged into Beam, but the DEX pools for those are still very thin.
Note: If you need some initial $BEAM to pay for the fees (they are very cheap), just post a Beam address on X, Telegram or Discord and people will send you some coins to help you get started!
💠 3. The Bridge & the OTC market
If the Beam DEX liquidity is too low for your appetite, you can also publish an OTC offer which will be broadcasted anonymously to all wallets for a period of 12 hours. If someone accepts it, the swap between the confidential assets will happen automatically (and anonymously, of course).
Simply head for the "Swap" button in the desktop wallet!
For OTC, I suggest to publish multiple small offers rather than a single big one, so that people can accept smaller chunks if they want...
💠 4. Wrapped BEAM on Uniswap
To help users coming from the surveillance side of crypto (i.e. the transparent chains), there is a wrapped version of Beam available on Ethereum. And there's a Uniswap pool for it:
app.uniswap.org/swap?outputCur…
$WBEAM is a normal *transparent* Ethereum token, but you can unwrap it back into the Beam blockchain, by using the corresponding dApp (which is -guess what- available within the Beam desktop wallet! 😁). 🦄
Beware! You might sometimes see another transparent coin called $BEAM (or sometimes $BEAMX). That's not the privacy Beam! It's a gaming token which they stupidly renamed "Beam", with total contempt for the other existing blockchain... 🤬
💠 5. Atomic Swaps
Lastly, for the crypto purists, Beam can also do anonymous atomic swaps with many coins ($BTC, $LTC, $ETH, $DASH, $DOGE ...). And again, it's all done from within the desktop wallet! 😎
I think the 12-hour broadcast of the atomic swap offers is currently not working, but you can still share your offer's ID elsewhere for people to copy-paste it if they want to accept it… ✨
💠 Conclusion
Those above are the main non-CEX ways to buy $BEAM. Try the one method you prefer, and if you have any question, please ask here on X, in Telegram or on Discord. Beam users will be happy to help! 🤝
Welcome to Beam! 😘
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“The only durable venue for privacy assets is permissionless, non-custodial rails: atomic swaps, cross-chain pools, and sovereign DEX infrastructure.”
a.k.a.
“Who the fuck gives a shit about another delisting!” 👍🏼
a.k.a.
“Who the fuck gives a shit about another delisting!” 👍🏼
Who the fuck gives a shit about another delisting!
MEXC slapping 'ST' (potential delisting) tags on $XMR, $BEAM, $DASH, $ARRE and $ZEPH is the inevitable result of mounting Western regulatory pressure.
After being formally blacklisted on the UK FCA's Warning List for promotions and facing tightening global AML scrutiny, MEXC's existential priority became preserving its fiat rails and merchant processing.
In the regulatory playbook, privacy coins are always the sacrificial lamb:
1. The Compliance Dilemma: FATF Recommendation 16 and UK AML regulations require counterparties to identify both sender and receiver. True cryptographic privacy makes compliance mathematically impossible.
2. The Corporate Compromise: When an offshore exchange is threatened with banking exclusion or domain blocks, they purge privacy pairs to signal compliance to Western watchdogs.
The lesson for crypto holders is absolute:
Expecting a centralized exchange facing UK regulatory action to defend financial privacy is a fantasy.
State pressure will always force CEXs to comply or die. The only durable venue for privacy assets is permissionless, non-custodial rails: atomic swaps, cross-chain pools, and sovereign DEX infrastructure.
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MEXC is delisting XMR and might delist BEAM?... 🤨
That's unfortunate because it was the last CEX with good enough liquidity to buy and sell Beam.
But hey, it's ok. Beam is ready. There is already more liquidity on Beam DEX and Uniswap than on MEXC! 😊
LFG privacy DeFi ! ✊😉
That's unfortunate because it was the last CEX with good enough liquidity to buy and sell Beam.
But hey, it's ok. Beam is ready. There is already more liquidity on Beam DEX and Uniswap than on MEXC! 😊
LFG privacy DeFi ! ✊😉
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Account created! 😎
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📩 I've got mail...
🇫🇷 France is being delisted from MEXC! 😁
Ah! If only we had tools for a censorship-resistant, decentralized and private finance... 😎
@beamprivacy
🇫🇷 France is being delisted from MEXC! 😁
Ah! If only we had tools for a censorship-resistant, decentralized and private finance... 😎
@beamprivacy
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DB✨⟁ | dbadol.beam retweeted
Nobody has privacy unless everyone has privacy.
Extremely concerning when „privacy“ software developers do not understand this basic principle, and instead publicly announce to „improve their screening software.“
I dont like criminals either, and I for sure dont like sharing them - but privacy, just as any fundamental right, has to apply to everyone, or else it doesnt work.
Extremely concerning when „privacy“ software developers do not understand this basic principle, and instead publicly announce to „improve their screening software.“
I dont like criminals either, and I for sure dont like sharing them - but privacy, just as any fundamental right, has to apply to everyone, or else it doesnt work.
We’re pausing Privacy Cash deposits temporarily.
When we started Privacy Cash, our goal was to make privacy tools for everyday people, not to enable crime. In light of the recent Binance hack, we want to make sure bad actors can’t use our product.
During the pause, we’ll continue strengthening our wallet screening system.
Withdrawals will remain available.
Stay tuned for updates on when the service will resume.
Thanks for understanding. Privacy is for everyone, but not for criminals.
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“Laser Beam”… 😄
That’s the name of the Lightning-inspired implementation of payment channels on @beamprivacy! 😆
That’s the name of the Lightning-inspired implementation of payment channels on @beamprivacy! 😆
Fam, check this out: Announcing BLAKE3-Servil! A new implementation of the BLAKE3 secure hash function. I used AI agents to make it *both* more secure *and* a lot faster. It's the opposite of an AI slop cannon. An AI laser beam. :-) ⤵️
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“Protocols that inspired others.”
Lelantus, which was adapted to Mimblewimble and included in @beamprivacy, is one such case of a protocol originally developed for Firo which also helped enhance other projects!
Thanks @firoorg! 🙏
Lelantus, which was adapted to Mimblewimble and included in @beamprivacy, is one such case of a protocol originally developed for Firo which also helped enhance other projects!
Thanks @firoorg! 🙏
Firo. Nearly a decade of original research. Protocols that inspired others. A community that shows up.
Lelantus Spark hides your sender, receiver, and amount by default. Spark Names make private payments as simple as a username. And Spark Assets will soon bring private tokens to
firo.org
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DB✨⟁ | dbadol.beam retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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70,000 trades on BEAM DEX, and counting!
Smart contracts onchain. Front ends running locally, right inside the wallet. No server to shut down, no interface to censor!
Private and permissionless swapping of confidential assets.
This is what Privacy DeFi actually looks like! 😎
Smart contracts onchain. Front ends running locally, right inside the wallet. No server to shut down, no interface to censor!
Private and permissionless swapping of confidential assets.
This is what Privacy DeFi actually looks like! 😎
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DANDELION++
Giulia Fanti et al.
13 June 2018
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Dandelion++ passes transactions over intertwined paths, or ‘cables’, before diffusing to the network.
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dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
Giulia Fanti et al.
13 June 2018
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Dandelion++ passes transactions over intertwined paths, or ‘cables’, before diffusing to the network.
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dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
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LELANTUS
Aram Jivanyan
2019
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A hybrid scheme of Lelantus-MimbleWimble has been developed and implemented into a fully-fledged privacy cryptocurrency in order to provide both confidentiality and strong anonymity of blockchain payments.
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eprint.iacr.org/2019/373.pdf
docs.beam.mw/Lelantus-MW.pdf
Aram Jivanyan
2019
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A hybrid scheme of Lelantus-MimbleWimble has been developed and implemented into a fully-fledged privacy cryptocurrency in order to provide both confidentiality and strong anonymity of blockchain payments.
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eprint.iacr.org/2019/373.pdf
docs.beam.mw/Lelantus-MW.pdf
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MIMBLEWIMBLE
Tom Elvis Jedusor
19 July, 2016
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I call my creation Mimblewimble because it is used to prevent the blockchain from talking about all user's information.
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docs.beam.mw/Mimblewimble.p…
Tom Elvis Jedusor
19 July, 2016
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I call my creation Mimblewimble because it is used to prevent the blockchain from talking about all user's information.
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docs.beam.mw/Mimblewimble.p…
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Oh! Good news!
@MeileDVPN 's decentralized VPN will be using Beam's confidential assets and smart contracts to manage their token! How cool is that? 🤩
Privcay DeFi with real life privacy use cases? That's amazing!
@MeileDVPN 's decentralized VPN will be using Beam's confidential assets and smart contracts to manage their token! How cool is that? 🤩
Privcay DeFi with real life privacy use cases? That's amazing!
The new $dVPN private token has launched on @beamprivacy
Initial Mint: 1,000,000
Max Supply: 48,000,000
Asset ID/CA: 208
DEX Pool ID: 209
Liquidity: 1000 $BEAM / 500,000 $dVPN
Unit Price: $0.00002056
@beamprivacy is unique in that it is a private-by-default blockchain with akes sending and receiving $dVPN a privacy coin as sender, recipient, and amount are all hidden.
Will this be the new asset used by decentralized VPNs? Only time will tell.
We never had intentions on launching a token, but we just couldnt restrain ourselves with the ongoing silly trademarks in a permissionless finance world.
The owners, us, hold 500,000 $dVPN. An emission schedule for the remaining 47M will be devised and most likely will be an asset whose emission is controlled by smart contracts and is backed by $BEAM if we can progess that far. Right now 1M $dVPN is backed by 2000 $BEAM.
We will look into ways of providing transparency of this asset in the near future. For now, users can verify mints in the Beam Asset dapp within the desktop wallet.
Permissionless and privacy are key ingredients to a sovereign individual and no one will take that away from us!
$BEAM $dVPN
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DB✨⟁ | dbadol.beam retweeted
1/ About a month ago @githib has indefinitely suspended an account of one of @beamprivacy maintainers - @maxnflaxl for allegedly violating Terms of Service. No explanation beyond that was given.
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