Ethereum Beam Chain Update: 8 new teams join, plans to change name due to trademark issues involving "Beam"

Odaily News Justin.eth Drake, a core developer of Ethereum, shared the progress of the first Beam Chain community conference call on Twitter, and announced that February 28th will be the time for the second conference call, which will focus on technical progress. Due to trademark issues involving the name "Beam", 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.
Currently, Beam Chain has 14 consensus layer teams, covering all continents except Antarctica, using a variety of programming languages including Zig, C, C++, C#, and many self-funded teams have emerged. Justin believes that Beam Chain provides an excellent entry point for developers to deeply understand the underlying technology of Ethereum L1. In addition, the meeting also discussed 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 multi-language support. Earlier news, a researcher from the Ethereum Foundation proposed a consensus layer upgrade proposal "Beam Chain", which was called "Ethereum 3.0" by the community.