BANANO Monthly Update #52 (August 2022)

Aug 30, 2022 • 6 min read

Here’s a fresh 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 August 2022 summarizes all important happenings in the BANANO ecosphere in July 2022, which was the 52nd month since the BANANO main-net launch.

BANANO Ecosphere News from July 2022 (newest first)

2022-07-27 A Letter from XGo to the Banano Community

2022-07-26 Community Event Announcement: Monkey Web Coding Challenge #2

2022-07-25 Official Banano Reddit Giveaway

2022-07-25 BANANO is being listed on XGo Exchange

2022-07-25 Community Event Announcement: Torchic Stories: Potassium Adventures

2022-07-25 3rd party announcement: Buy Banano with EUR, USD, GBP at Nanswap.com

2022-07-24 Booster 2 – Banano Hackathon Competition Announcement

2022-07-24 Banano Community Call #19

2022-07-21 Community Event Announcement: Dungeons & Banano: Fantasy AI Art Contest

2022-07-15 Dungeons & Banano Website Launch Announcement

2022-07-14 Community Development Project: Banano Public API

2022-07-15 Community Event Announcement: Buffed Artwork Swole Torchic Contest

2022-07-12 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) Update: Gasless Wraps/Swaps & Translations

2022-07-12 Community Event Announcement: Monkey Web Coding Challenge

2022-07-12 Jungle TV Twitter Giveaway

2022-07-11 BAN FAM Community Call #18 Recap

2022-07-09 Community Project: llajungla.info – A website for Spanish-speaking monkeys

2022-07-05 BANANO Monthly Update #51 (July 2022)

2022-07-04 JungleTV Tunesday Event: Piano & Keyboards

2022-07-03 JungleTV x cryptomonKeys NFT Collaboration Announcement

2022-07-01 Dungeons & Banano Live Stream Session Announcement

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 disrupt the meme economy. 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 at exchange.banano.how.

BANANO Supply

Updated data from August 1st, 2022:
Circulating Supply: 1,377,658,144 (71.8%)
Team Banano Funds (allocated for ongoing free distribution): 541,216,159
Burned Total: 1,483,932,671
Total Supply: 1,918,874,303 (=max supply)

You can always check the current BANANO supply here on YellowSpyGlass.

BANANO Faucet and Distribution Overview

Aside lots of events and intermittent faucet runs as listed above, we also have several faucets running. A short overview of those faucets can be found below.

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

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

Banano BoomPow
Provide proof-of-work for Nano and Banano services and receive a share of a daily BANANO prize pool

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

JungleTV
A video sharing platform where you can earn & spend BANANO!

monKeyslots
A slots-themed BANANO faucet requiring cryptomonKeys NFTs to claim.

More ways to get free BANANO and other non official faucets can be found at banano.how

New faucets and modifications of current ones 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.

BANANO is distributed through faucet payouts (Bananominer, Powerplant, Monkeytalks, BoomPow), BananoJobs, tipping allowances and celery (rewards) to core team members and contributors, plus we have regular events and contests organized by the core team or the community.

BANANO Tipbots as we use them at Discord and Reddit 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!

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 August 1st, 2022 compared to counts from January 2020:

Main social media accounts:
Discord: 39633 (Jan 2020: 9444)
Twitter: 33019 (Jan 2020: 6634)
Reddit: 60494 (Jan 2020: 3632)
Telegram (main group): 10583 (Jan 2020: 6499)
Telegram (news channel): 2817 (Jan 2020: 2009)
Facebook: 3000 (Jan 2020: 2092)
Instagram: 2897 (Jan 2020: 1396)
Youtube: 3170 (Jan 2020: 433)
LBRY/Odysee: 3842 (Jan 2020: 145)
Tiktok: 311 (Aug 2020: 131)
BBS: 209 (January 2022: 154)

Blogs:
Publish0x: 6677 (Jan 2020: 672)
Medium: 889 (Jan 2020: 409)

Tracking websites:
Coingecko: 8928 (Jan 2020: 492)
Coinmarketcap: 13461 (Mar 2021: 2583)

BananoJobs: 5153 (Jan 2020: 845)
BananoMarket: 2045 (June 2020: 161)

cryptomonKeys
Discord: 10850 (Oct 2020: 650)
Twitter: 29196 (Oct 2020: 831)

BANANO at Telegram

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.

Here’s an overview of all official BANANO Telegram Groups:

Telegram news channel | English

Generally, make sure you join suitable groups, help others, and spread the word about BANANO!

BANANO at Facebook

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

Those are currently not very active, if you’d like to get engaged as a mod there or elsewhere please contact us.

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. There are always new developments, events, giveaways and other happenings such as innovative airdrops, new faucets and faucetgames, and we are still working on creating a new version of a play2earn Banano Runner (yeah we’re saying this since forever, but it will come eventually, no worries). Good things simply take time. We will keep you updated. We’re all here for the long-term in shaping this unique crypto experiment called BANANO ❤

Stay tuned, and if 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!

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 #52 (August 2022)