BANANO Monthly Update #29 (September 2020)

Sep 1, 2020 • 9 min read

BANANO is around since more than two years and growing and going quite nicely despite all the 2020 craziness. BANANO is still 100% freely distributed (and by the way all transactions are feeless, seeing those gas fees is just surreal). Now it’s September already, meaning it’s time for another ripe Monthly Update from the BANANO ecosystem! The idea of those monthly updates is to keep our community informed, provide a good starting point for new people looking at the project, and to be transparent about BANANO’s ongoing distribution activities and community growth.

This BANANO Monthly Update September 2020 summarizes all important happenings in the BANANO ecosphere in August 2020, which already was the 29th month since the BANANO main-net launch.

BANANO x Vite Labs Partnership Announcement

If there’s one thing the current Defi-mania shows us, it’s surely that cryptocurrency projects shouldn’t ‘just do their thing’ alone, but rather team up and connect so that everyone can benefit from the resulting network effect. There are already few next generation DAG-based projects around, and we think it’s not a bad idea to connect more with each other. That’s why we have engaged in an official partnership with another DAG-based crypto project: BANANO x Vite Labs.
Full Announcement

Official BananoJobs: Airdrops Everywhere!

BananoJobs is going strong since the recent relaunch. BananoJobs is THE place where everyone can create or complete bounties or microtasks. Earn BANANO for completing small jobs (called BananoJobs), or Pay BANANO to others to get things done. We meanwhile have completed more Official BananoJobs (see also recent reports), which were airdrops at different social media platforms mainly for now. We’ll keep those airdrop events coming! Stay tuned and be ready!
BananoJobs Announcement | Join BananoJobs

These airdrops are still ongoing:

100k BANANO Airdrop at LBRY

Ends September 5

200k BANANO Airdrop at Publish0x

Ends September 7

200k BANANO Airdrop at Uptrennd

Ends September 12

New Faucet: BANANO Story2Image Faucet

Few days ago we announced a test round of a new faucet concept: The BANANO Story2Image Faucet — a faucet making the claim process fun while still having effective anti-bot functionality to avoid cheating. The concept: Users had to draw an image from a random sentence provided by the faucet and vote on images from other faucet users. The first round has been a great success with lots of creative images. We’re working on some adjustments, and then more rounds coming likely soon!
Story2Image Faucet Announcement | Faucet Round 1 Recap

BANANO Ecosystem Spotlight: Kalium

Kalium — BANANO’s mobile wallet — is not only super popular but definitely one of the smoothest, slickest and fastest wallets in the whole cryptocurrency space. If you haven’t yet, you should try it out today! Here’s a concise overview in the BANANO Ecosystem Spotlight series:
BANANO Ecosystem Spotlight #2: Kalium, BANANO’s Mobile Wallet

The Weekly Peel — BANANO Community Updates!

Even more BANANO News from August 2020

BananoJobs Update and Airdrop Report #2
BANANO Trading League Round 1 Rewards Paid!
Create a BANANO Invitation Card Contest — The Results!
Recap: BANANO World Real-Life Crypto Hunting Game
BANANO is now included on Tip.cc
BANANO included in Crypto.com Price Tracker
BANANO feature and giveaway by Uptrennd Africa community
Community event: Bebe’s BANGO Bash
BananoJobs Update and Airdrop Report #1
‘Banano Bites’ Episode 9: BANANO Going Tiktok

All-time BANANO News list at http://news.banano.how

What the Fork is BANANO?

For those of you who don’t know BANANO yet: BANANO is a cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin or Ethereum, just a much newer generation). BANANO was forked from the cryptocurrency Nano in April 2018 and thus is powered by DAG technology — here to distrupt the meme economy. Yes, BANANO has memes! And also feeless and near-instant transactions, a highly active community, and active technical development! The BANANO community doesn’t take themselves too seriously, but we’re here for the long run and we enjoy what we do.

On top of this, BANANO is super easy to use. Just try our slick mobile wallet called Kalium and get your first free $BANANO from one of our faucets within minutes! Also, BANANO has a free ongoing distribution through innovative faucet games. You can find more details on our official website: banano.cc, and you’ll find help getting started at banano.how.

BANANO is already traded on several exchanges. You’ll find current information collated at Coingecko (and Coinmarketcap) and an overview about all current exchanges here.

BANANO Supply

Updated data from September 1st, 2020:
Circulating Supply: 1,096,476,222
Burned Total: 504,329,175
Total Supply: 2,898,494,493
You can always check current supply and burn details through our supply API.

BANANO Faucet and Distribution Overview

Aside lots of events and intermittent faucet runs as listed above, we still have several faucets running permanently since quite a while, quick overview here:

MonkeyTalks
An instant & self-sustaining faucet, combined with messaging

BananoMiner
Earn BANANO by contributing CPU/GPU power to medical research via Folding@Home

BANANO Powerplant
Browser-based altcoin mining that pays rewards in BANANO

Banano BoomPow
Provide proof-of-work for Nano and Banano services, get BANANO reward

BananoJobs
Complete bounties or microtasks called ‘BananoJobs’ — get paid in BANANO

BANANO’s highly popular faucet game ‘Black Monkey’ is normally running irregularly in focused 24 hour events! At the moment, our core dev running this faucet got is not available that much due to other priorities and Coronavirus lockdown with bad internet, but the next round will start soon — stay tuned! Until then, we’re currently testing another faucet: The BANANO Story2Image faucet!

New faucets and modifications will follow over time, and adjustments might always be made to ensure that BANANO’s free distribution stays fair, and also doesn’t make our community members too dependent on BANANO earnings.

Within August 2020, we’ve freely distributed a total of ~12 Million BANANO (August: 12M; June: 20M; May: 21M). Just to name the major events, this has happened through faucet payouts (Bananominer, Powerplant, Monkeytalks, BoomPow, Story2Image faucet), BananoJobs, tipping allowances and celery (rewards) to all core team members, major contributors and moderators.

BANANO Tipbots as we use them at Discord, Reddit, Telegram and Twitter are instrumental for showing newly joining members how easy-to-use and fast BANANO truly is, and to actually have everyone use BANANO for what it’s made for — tipping others!

Example Twitter/Telegram Tipbot: In total, since the Tipbot was started in Mid April 2019 until September 1, 2020, more than 41 Million BANANO were tipped in more than 362,000 transactions, only at Twitter and Telegram!

Community activity on all platforms is key for BANANO growth and ripening in context of free and fair distribution! To keep track of this, here’s the monthly overview about our main social media/news channels with follower counts as of September 1st, 2020 compared to counts from January 2020:

Main social media accounts:
Discord: 13560 (Jan 2020: 9444)
Twitter: 14343 (Jan 2020: 6634)
Reddit: 4960 (Jan 2020: 3632)
Telegram (main group): 6581 (Jan 2020: 6499)
Telegram (news channel): 2963 (Jan 2020: 2009)
Facebook: 2384 (Jan 2020: 2092)
Instagram: 1751 (Jan 2020: 1396)
Youtube: 768 (Jan 2020: 433)
LBRY: 3009 (Jan 2020: 145)
Tiktok: 198 (Aug 2020: 131)

Blogs:
Publish0x: 3474 (Jan 2020: 672)
Uptrennd: 6183 (Jan 2020: 1451)
Medium: 503 (Jan 2020: 409)

Tracking websites:
Blockfolio: 1469 (Jan 2020: 1106)
Coingecko: 886 (Jan 2020: 492)

Even more:
Steemit: 42 (Jan 2020: 25)
Hive: 40 (Jan 2020: 25)
QQ: 1154 (Jan 2020: 294)
Wechat (QR): 281 (Jan 2020: 241)
Weibo (QR): 83 (Jan 2020: 92)
Minds: 46 (Jan 2020: 37)

BananoJobs: 1611 (Jan 2020: 845)
BananoMarket: 298 (June 2020: 161)
Banano Royale: 1817 (Jan 2020: 1721)

BANANO Telegram Recap

Telegram is easy to use and overall pretty popular, and thus the perfect place to easily help new community members getting started with BANANO, in their language. That’s why we are working on having channels in all major languages, and our Telegram Tipbot enables us to send all new members some BANANO right away through a near-instant, feeless on-chain transaction, seeing is believing!

You’ll find a Telegram Tipbot How-To and all group links always here: http://telegram.banano.how

Here are current follower counts of all official BANANO Telegram Groups for September 1st, 2020 compared to counts from January 2020. Of note, we regularly clean up some groups and remove inactive users or deleted accounts, which is the main reason for lower numbers in some cases.

Telegram news channel | English

Spanish: 2215 (Jan 2020: 2654)
Indonesian: 1200 (Jan 2020: 681)
Vietnamese: 420 (Jan 2020: 559)
Turkish: 367 (Jan 2020: 528)
Portuguese: 371 (Jan 2020: 419)
Russian: 302 (Jan 2020: 244)
Filipino: 176 (Jan 2020: 180)
Italian: 545 (Jan 2020: 279)
Romanian: 160 (Jan 2020: 153)
Chinese: 133 (Jan 2020: 171)
Polish: 206 (Jan 2020: 175)
India: 298 (Jan 2020: 75)
French: 99 (Jan 2020: 65)
German: 83 (Jan 2020: 76)
Greek: 124 (Jan 2020: 96)
Croatian: 601 (Jan 2020: 141)
Korean: 24 (Jan 2020: 36)
Japanese: 40 (Jan 2020: 31)
Arabic: 309 (Jan 2020: 29)
Dutch: 148 (Jan 2020: 34)
Hungarian: 79 (Jan 2020: 91)
Latvian: 16 (Jan 2020: 16)
Hebrew: 24 (Jan 2020: 18)
Persian: 62 (Jan 2020: 16)
Bangla: 278 (Jan 2020: 0)

Other official groups:
BANANO Game Room

If you want to use the BANANO TipBot in your Telegram group, just add it to the group, make it admin, and start using it (how-to).

Generally, make sure you join suitable groups, help others, and spread the word about BANANO!
Any group missing? Interested in helping out as moderator? Send a message to @bantano#1919 at our Discord or comment below!

BANANO Facebook Recap

BANANO also has local groups at Facebook, here’s an overview of our current groups:

Facebook page

English: 1105 (Jan 2020: 748)
Spanish: 2881 (Jan 2020: 2754)
Vietnamese: 547 (Jan 2020: 525)
Portuguese: 83 (Jan 2020: 88)
Indonesian: 51 (Jan 2020: 43)
German: 14 (Jan 2020: 15)

BANANO Outlook

As you can see, the core team and all the BANANO community supporters are constantly working on different new projects adding up to the BANANO ecosphere. We’ll continue developing new things and improving all the stuff we already have up and running. There always will be new events, giveaways and other happenings such as innovative airdrops, new faucets and faucetgames, and we hope that some new version of Banano Runner will have a comeback some day. We’re still working on different things, e.g. getting Camo BANANO, BANANO’s privacy layer, to the next level, and new faucet games and other innovative approaches are always in the pipeline. In any case we can assure you we’re working hard on updates and also on bigger exchange listings, and will get everything done one after each other and continue developing the BANANO ecosphere. We’re all here for the long-term in shaping this unique crypto experiment called BANANO ❤

Stay tuned, and whenever you have an idea and/or ability to contribute to the BANANO ecosphere whatsoever feel free to contact us!

How can YOU help?

BANANO is merely what its community makes out of it ❤

If you want to help spreading the word and increasing our community, join our channels and suitable groups, follow our accounts, like and share/retweet our posts, and help others getting started!

At this occasion: A huge hug and thank you to all our supporters, contributors, moderators, giveaway creators, BANANO tippers, and meme creators at all the different $BANANO social media channels for doing a really really awesome job ❤ Keep it up!

Any group/language missing? Interested in helping out as moderator at Telegram or Facebook? Any idea to develop or contribute to the BANANO ecosphere otherwise? Contact @bantano#1919 at our Discord, or leave a comment below for questions or suggestions.

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BANANO Monthly Update #29 (September 2020)

BANANO x Vite Labs Partnership Announcement