BANANO Monthly Update #57 (January 2023)

Jan 27, 2023 • 6 min read

This BANANO Monthly Update January 2023 summarizes all important news from the BANANO ecosystem in December 2022, which was the 57th month since the BANANO main-net launch.

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.

BANANO Ecosphere News from December 2022 (newest first)

2022-12-31 BANANO BANAcademy awards show 2022

2022-12-30 JungleTV Event Announcement: Nifty NFT Raffle

2022-12-29 Next Gen Needs Crypto! BANANO featured in cointelegraph article

2022-12-29 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) Defi Farms Update

2022-12-27 Jungle TV Event Announcement: Tunesday

2022-12-25 The Freerice Banano team reached 100 million grains!

2022-12-25 Merry Xmas!

2022-12-23 [Community Event] Banano World Juniors of Hockey Pickems

2022-12-22 BANANO Monthly Update #56 (December 2022)

2022-12-21 Community Project Announcement: Potassius Beta Wallet

2022-12-20 Community Project: JungleTV Tunesday Scheme Instrumental Event

2022-12-20 Community-organized event: Age of Empires Tournament Update

2022-12-20 Interview with BANANO Contributor Airtune

2022-12-19 BANANO included in Exodus Wallet Voting

2022-12-19 BANANO Xmas Bango Event

2022-12-18 BANANO Xmas Giveaway at Reddit

2022-12-16 BANacademy Awards 2022 Round 2 Voting started!

2022-12-15 Community Event announcement: BAN Feast 2022

2022-12-12 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) ETH-BAN Farm on Arbitrum has started

2022-12-11 Banano Sundays Banfam Community Call #29 Recap

2022-12-11 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) is now Live on Arbitrum and SushiSwap!

2022-12-11 Banano Community organized event: Banukkah Holiday Stream

2022-12-11 Community-organized project: Fitfam rewards are back!

2022-12-10 Second BANANO x-mas Giveaway at Reddit

2022-12-09 Community Project: Banano Sports FIFA World Cup and NFL Update

2022-12-08 Community Project: JungleTV Nifty NFT Raffle - 100+ cryptomonKeys NFTs to be won

2022-12-07 Community-organized event: Banano Cozy Emoji Design Contest

2022-12-06 Banano r/place featured on official Reddit Recap 2022

2022-12-06 Community Event: Round 1 Voting for 2022 BANAcademy Awards has started!

2022-12-06 Community Project: BANANO Freerice Update - Charity Donation and new monKeystack NFT

2022-12-05 Community Project: JungleTV Tunesday Theme: SYNTH

2022-12-04 Community Project: Banano Sports FIFA World Cup Update

2022-12-03 Official BANANO Giveaway at Reddit

2022-12-02 Contest Announcement: Christmas Coloring Contest

2022-12-02 Community-organized event: BANANO Age of Empires Tournament announcement

2022-12-01 Dungeons & Banano event: "Chains of Death", A Community Driven Story

2022-12-01 BANANO - The Holiday Season is here!

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 is powered by DAG technology — here to disrupt the meme economy. BANANO has memes, 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 Trading

BANANO is 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 January 1st, 2023:

Circulating Supply: 1,429,634,215 BAN (74.5%)

Team Banano Funds: 489,235,204 BAN (allocated for ongoing free distribution)

Burned Total: 1,483,936,811 BAN

Total Supply: 1,918,869,419 BAN (=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, in some cases with follower counts as of January 1st, 2023:

Main accounts: Discord (39254) | Twitter (32660) | Reddit (68637)

Telegram: Main group (9664) | News channel (2519)

Other: Facebook (3000) | Instagram (2871) | Youtube (3150)

Blogs: Publish0x (6881) | Medium (909)

Tracking websites: Coingecko (9173) | Coinmarketcap (13815)

More at Reddit: BananoJobs | BananoMarket

cryptomonKeys (BANANO-themed NFTs): Website | Discord | Twitter

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:

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

BANANO at Facebook

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

BANANO Outlook

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, fun distribution events, giveaways and other happenings such as innovative airdrops, new faucets and faucet games, more educational content and contests, new wrapping on even more chains, 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, or any idea to develop or contribute to the BANANO ecosphere otherwise? Contact @bantano#1919 at our Discord.

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BANANO Monthly Update #57 (January 2023)