gm 👋
This handle used to be for
@the_eco_app
— one of the first products built on top of the
@eco
protocol.
Now, it will be managed by the Eco Association and focused on the protocol itself.
See for more...
Ready for some inframe onchain madness?!
We’ve teamed up with
@KrauseHouseDAO
to bring a completely inframe March Madness Brackets experience to Warpcast on
@farcaster
! Play for free, build a dream bracket, win $USDC on
@base
and own the onchain proof forever as a
@base
NFT!
Thanks everyone for trying Beam! We're having rate-limiting issues from some of our partners and are working hard on resolving them.
Some of you may face errors while we address these.
We'll continue to post here with announcements and updates.
The Eco community keeps getting stronger 💪
We're thrilled that Beam acquired
@join
to help accelerate the vision of making crypto as easy to use as cash with
@beam_eco
⁜
More info 👇
1/ BIG NEWS: we’ve acquired
@join
to enable shopping online with stablecoins.
It’s time to bring checkout onchain. No more waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
Want to be the first to spend stablecoins on Amazon? Read on 👇
The Eco Association is launching a grants program!
Calling front-end devs, data analysts, and growth hackers alike 📣
We're starting with three grants to kick things off — check them out 👇
Looking to learn about ERC-4337?
Want to hear directly from builders who’ve shipped a product that uses paymasters?
Join us tomorrow for a conversation with
@johnrising_
,
@liquidiodine
, and
@strao_
on building the
@beam_eco
wallet with
@stackup_fi
The Eco Currency is an alternative to stablecoins
ECO is intended to be used for payments, but is not pegged. It has its own monetary policy, governed by the Eco Trustees.
Why? And how does this all work? 👇
Knock knock, who's there? ✊
@eco
's first
@jokerace_xyz
! 🃏
We're compiling feature requests for the
@beam_eco
wallet. What do you want to see the Beam team build?
Check it out & win up to 10,000 ECO
Last month,
@beam_eco
introduced wallet support for
#VerifiedUSD
(
@usdv_money
), a native omnichain stablecoin backed by tokenized real world assets. What makes $USDV unique? Let’s find out! 👇
A year ago today — Nov 7th, 2022 — the Eco Currency launched
In Year 1:
⚖️ Onchain monetary policy began
🐣
@beam_eco
was born
🛠️ The Eco Association started up
A look back on the year... ✨
Base is open and Onchain Summer is here 🟡
Become a part of Base history by minting “Base Day One” to join the story of bringing the world onchain
Our story.
What's better than prize money? Bragging rights!
We’re officially challenging
@krausehouse
and any other projects/protocols to a March Madness showdown.
Down for a little 3 on 3 action?
We’ll put our best 3 Eco Association player scores up against yours and we’ll see you at…
Ready for some inframe onchain madness?!
We’ve teamed up with
@KrauseHouseDAO
to bring a completely inframe March Madness Brackets experience to Warpcast on
@farcaster
! Play for free, build a dream bracket, win $USDC on
@base
and own the onchain proof forever as a
@base
NFT!
How is Beam different from most crypto wallets today?
📱 No app or plugin to download: Entirely browser-based
⛽️ Transaction fees are paid in the token you're sending, no need to find ETH
🚀 Seamless UX: Usernames, instant onboard, send money with a link
Eco Atlas: A tool by
@saulodigital
that shows the onchain history of Eco monetary policy 📜
A glimpse into the future of money: global, and with transparent public records of its evolution 🌎
Exploring the Future of Money: Introducing Eco Atlas! 🔎 🌐
Let's look at the innovative characteristics of Eco and how Eco Atlas can help with a monetary policy explorer.
Check it out 👇🧵
Tomorrow at
@optimismFND
Demo Day,
@strao_
from
@beam_eco
will explore how 'intents' are reshaping the crypto landscape
📅 Thursday, Nov 30th @ 4pm UTC
🔴 OP Discord Server
Payments are one of the foundational use cases of crypto, but ease of use is still a huge issue.
We are beyond excited to have Beam CEO
@andy_bromberg
chat with us IRL on why
@beam_eco
is different and an inclusive solution for bringing true mainstream adoption!
Crypto market got you down?
Well, IT'S BRRR DAY, where you can win a 100 $USDC top-up! 💸
Here's how to enter:
✅ Follow, RT & tag the friend you want to Beam
✅ Reply to this post with your Beam name or unique emoji string!
Want the prize pot to grow for the next round? 👇
We're at ETHDenver along with the
@beam_eco
team this week! ✈️
Check out the Beam Block and come find us hanging out at the Beam booth in the main venue
The Beam Block is coming up 🏘️
We've got multiple local Denver merchants who are going to be accepting stablecoins as a payment method using Beam.
We'll even give you some spending money if you come to our booth! Come say hi at Booth 530 in Privacyville.
More info 🔜
about ~$8000 are up for grabs in this week's contests by communities like
@GoldAdventure
@IndieDao
and
@eco
...
if you're up for contributing a game proposal, feature request, or meme
here's how to play in six featured contests 👇
@optimismFND
@BuildOnBase
And — now this part is *deeply* nerdy, but super cool — even from just Beam's pre-launch Alpha testing days, Eco is already the most-called UserOp contract on Optimism:
This means it's the most active contract that uses ERC-4337 paymasters
We are so incredibly early 🫡
Proud to be a winner of the
@BuildOnBase
@nounsprophouse
round!
We promised to give our 5 ETH winnings to other projects in the Superchain / Base /
@optimismFND
ecosystems.
Who should we consider? Any of the runners up in the round?
I'm hiring!
As
@eco
scales, we're turning up the dial on our online presence
Very excited to be hiring a Content Marketing Manager to take charge of end-to-end content strategy & execution at the Eco Association
Really enjoyed listening to
@andy_bromberg
's analogy about Account abstraction (ERC-4337).
“Moving from flip phones to smartphones, with flip phones you can make calls, you can reach people and interact with them, but it took the evolution of smartphones to create apps that…
Crypto is back.
@Stripe
will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat. Join the waitlist and watch the demo (h/t
@Solana
) from Sessions.
Tomorrow at
@optimismFND
Demo Day,
@strao_
from
@beam_eco
will explore how 'intents' are reshaping the crypto landscape
📅 Thursday, Nov 30th @ 4pm UTC
🔴 OP Discord Server
We attended
@Permissionless
to join the
@beam_eco
team in hosting an event
It was a hugely successful experiment in IRL crypto payments:
QR Code drink tickets let people spin up pre-funded Beam wallets in real-time to buy drinks at the bar using the Eco Currency 🍻
Honestly,
@beam_eco
was the slickest application of account abstraction I’ve seen yet. No app download, no wallet permissions, just QR codes and airdrops.
#Permissionless2
New episode:
#148
- ANDY BROMBERG (
@andy_bromberg
)
Awesome talking with Andy on a wide range of subjects. We compared charter currencies and competitive monetary policy to charter cities and competitive governance. We discussed Andy's early days getting into crypto as a…
September is almost over — it's time for our final instalment of Trustee Thursday! ⚖️
Each week this month, we've been highlighting a few Eco Trustees
The Trustees are a group of macroeconomists, policymakers, and crypto-natives who conduct monetary policy for the Eco currency
September is Trustee Month at Eco ⚖️
Each week in September, we're shining the spotlight on a few of our Eco Trustees.
Learn about this incredible group of macroeconomists, crypto-natives and policymakers!
Our first ever
@jokerace_xyz
has come to a close!
Congrats to our winners:
🥇 paulofonseca.lens 10,000 ECO
🥈 chriscollins.eth 5000 ECO
🥈 Anfielddog.lens 5000 ECO
🥉 0x0e0e...4ab 2500 ECO
#KYEP
for the next race 👀
Join us for our bi-weekly community call this Thursday at 18:00 UTC.
We’ll be joined by
@michlai007
to discuss the first year of the Trustee experience, learnings and what’s coming up next as we head into our first Trustee election cycle.
What like exchanging crypto is hard?💁♀️
Check out how quick and easy it was for us to exchange currency at our recent House of HVND mixer at
@OS_NewYorkCity
This is all thanks to our friends over at
@beam_eco
!
Eco v1.5: A New, Upgradable System
Join us Thursday for a preview of the Eco v1.5 technical upgrade that will soon be proposed to governance —
@liquidiodine
&
@strao_
will cover Eco v1.5, what it is, and why it's important for the future of the protocol
@eco
and
@wonderverse_xyz
have partnered to reward $ECO holders and Beam Wallet users! 🎉
Join their journey to reinvent payments and get involved today- head to their server to begin! 🤠
Trustee Spotlight
#5
: Peter Dattels
Pete was a senior member of the IMF for many years, after spending time in central banking as well. At the IMF, he led the money and capital market monitoring function, and was responsible for coordinating the IMF’s Financial Stability Report.
The Eco Currency is an alternative to stablecoins
ECO is intended to be used for payments, but is not pegged. It has its own monetary policy, governed by the Eco Trustees.
Why? And how does this all work? 👇
Trustee Spotlight
#4
: Josh Barach
Josh is the founder and managing partner of Philip Equities, LP, which invests in global equities across all sectors. He is a markets researcher who has thought deeply about the history & future of currencies.
Our second community call is coming up! 👀
@AnnikaSays
and
@Naginnarb
will break down the July happenings across the ecosystem, including the
@beam_eco
launch
📅 Term
Trustees are elected for one-year terms and can be removed by the community at any point
The next Trustee election is currently planned for December 2023
Trustee Spotlight
#2
:
@AnnikaSays
Annika led the grants program at
@gitcoin
after spending ten years across banking, fintech, and venture capital. She now serves as Executive Director of the Eco Association.
Everything you need to know about Crypto Payments right here 👇
Deep Dive Report:
Database of Companies:
(continuing to add to this)
Some highlights from the report below.
Ever wonder what a Web3 native unit of account might actually look like?
If you're headed to
@stable_summit
today join our discussion and deep dive into post stablecoin value models with
@ButtonDeFi
/
@Poolside_Party
Founder Manny Rincon-Cruz and
@eco
Research Manager Christian!
Eco is doubling down on crypto-native products, and we're sunsetting our US-only fintech app.
Why?
Custodial crypto products in the US face growing roadblocks, while new technology means mainstream self-custody products are finally possible.
Get the full story 👇
@BuildonBase
held a grants round for projects built on Base — and
@beam_eco
was selected as one of five winners out of 143 projects
Congrats to the team 🏆
This is the highest Base Interest Rate the Trustees have enacted yet
If you want to participate in the lockup, go to .
You'll need ECO on Ethereum Mainnet.
It's Trustee Thursday! ⚖️
Each week in September, we're shining the spotlight on a few of our Eco Trustees ☀️
The Trustees are a group of macroeconomists, policymakers, and crypto-natives who conduct monetary policy for the ECO currency