Beam

Beam is a blockchain ecosystem and investment treasury that grew out of gaming; BEAM is the gas, staking and governance token of Beam Network.

Beam began as a gaming blockchain and now calls itself an innovation lab for AI, trading and blockchain. It runs Beam Network, an open-source chain built on the Avalanche tech stack, and a large community treasury managed by the Beam Foundation. The treasury invests in games, compute projects such as Aethir, and Dreamcash, a trading app that Beam founded. This Beam is not the Mimblewimble privacy coin with the same name.

BEAM pays gas fees on Beam Network, is staked by validators and delegators to secure the network, gives votes in governance and is accepted as payment in ecosystem apps and games. After the Horizon upgrade the network became proof-of-stake: a validator needs a Node Token and at least 20,000 BEAM. Rewards come from gas fees, protocol fees and grants from the treasury.

About 51.3 billion BEAM circulate out of 58.5 billion, and Beam says about 38% of the supply has been burned through buy and burn. The treasury was valued at about $148.6 million on 30 June 2026, not counting BEAM itself.