BeamPrivacy is a privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain and confidential DeFi platform that launched its mainnet on January 3, 2019, with no premine and no ICO. BeamPrivacy's Twitter Score is 58 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #17,308 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
BeamPrivacy is built on a Mimblewimble protocol foundation, using the BeamHash III proof-of-work consensus algorithm with support for GPU mining. Its total supply is capped at 262,800,000 BEAM, and the project has no founding premine or token sale. BeamPrivacy is affiliated with BeamX DAO and the BeamMW GitHub organization, and was previously affiliated with the Beam Foundation.
BeamPrivacy has faced several scrutiny events over its privacy guarantees. A 2019 Wired article covered an independent researcher's claimed practical attack against Mimblewimble privacy, to which Beam responded by introducing decoy transactions as a mitigation. A 2021 academic paper designed and evaluated a transaction denial-of-service attack against the Beam network in a private test environment. More recently, a July 2026 emergency hard fork patched a Bulletproofs rangeproof implementation vulnerability that had been responsibly disclosed by MonclairTrades.
BeamPrivacy has accumulated 33,070 followers as of July 2026 and has published 4,587 posts. BeamPrivacy has been mentioned by 237 accounts, with 957 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow BeamPrivacy include 213 founders, 51 angel investors, 145 influencers and 13 VCs. Among them are Solana, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Andrew Kang, smolting wassie, verse and Udi Wertheimer.