BANANO Monthly Update #28 (August 2020)

Aug 2, 2020 • 9 min read

BANANO is around since more than two years and growing and going quite nice despite all the 2020 craziness. Now it’s August 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 August 2020 summarizes all important happenings in the BANANO ecosphere in July 2020, which already was the 28th month since the BANANO main-net launch.

BANANO is (not) Here for a Pump on Tiktok

Since BANANO is aiming to distribute as broadly as possible and reach and educate everyone (including your kids and grandparents of course!), we’re now also at Tiktok!
Full Announcement | 10k BANANO Giveaway at Tiktok | Video Feature

A Real-World Crypto Hunting Game: Banano World

Our community member tenflake has organized Banano World, a real-world Crypto Hunting Game in Brussels, Belgium. The event with 100k BAN prize pool sponsored by the BANANO team has happened recently and was a success! Report to follow shortly!
Full Announcement

BANANO x CryptoLeagues: Join the BANANO Trading League

Crypto Trading often seems to be complicated for new users at first glance. Now, BANANO has partnered with CryptoLeagues, a new platform gamifying crypto trading for beginners! Everyone can learn crypto trading without any financial risk. The first free-to-play event with 50k BAN prize pool is ongoing, let us know if you like to see a second round!
Full Announcement

Earning $BAN with BananoMiner? Check out BananoMiner Watch!

It’s really easy to earn BANANO daily with BananoMiner while supporting medical research including Coronavirus/COVID-19 research! Learn how to get started here. Now, several community members stepped up and made it even easier to track your progress!
Full Announcement

BANANO To Be Listed on HitBTC Exchange!

This news was coming out on the last days of June already, but we’d like to thank our community again for unprecedented sprit and engagement in the HitBTC community vote in late June. BANANO was nominated in a Community Vote from HitBTC exchange at Twitter — and won it, meaning BANANO will be listed on HitBTC exchange! It’ll hopefully not be much longer until BANANO’s biggest exchange listing so far goes live. Congrats again, Banfam, and stay tuned and patient. We’re getting there!
Full Announcement | All current BANANO Exchanges

Still up: Vitex Airdrop Round 3 (3 Million BANANO!)

Due to the huge success of previous rounds and popular demand, and since Vitex meanwhile is one of the more liquid BANANO exchanges, we’re currently doing a third BANANO airdrop round to all Vitex app users! Make sure to claim your share of 3 Million Banano every 24 hours!
All Details here

The Weekly Peel — BANANO Community Updates!

The Daily Peel, a new BANANO community news website created by the BANANO community, was launched just several weeks ago. Meanwhile, there have been lots of news indeed on a daily base, and you also can catch up regularly with BANANO Community News through the dedicated ‘Weekly Peel’ article series!
The Daily Peel Direct Link
Weekly Peel #1 | Weekly Peel #2 | Weekly Peel #3 | Weekly Peel #4 | Weekly Peel #5 | Weekly Peel #6 | Weekly Peel #7 | Weekly Peel #8 | Weekly Peel #9 | Weekly Peel #10 | Weekly Peel #11 | Weekly Peel #12 | Weekly Peel #13 | Weekly Peel #14 | Weekly Peel #15

BananoJobs Going Strong! More Regular Airdrops!

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 just completed several Official BananoJobs, which were airdrops at Uptrennd, Publish0x and Twitter during last month (report to follow shortly!). Now we’re ready for more regular events. Stay tuned and get ready!
Full Announcement | Join BananoJobs

Even more BANANO News from July 2020

BANANO Airdrop to all Publish0x users (200k BAN)!
Announcing the BANANO Invitation Card Contest (50k BAN Prize Pool!)
Reminder: BANANO Cooking Contest Ending Soon!
BANANO wins My Altcoins PoA Gold Medal
No TikTok Monkey Business for Banano (feature in beincrypto.com)
‘Banano […] is vastly outperforming Nano’

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 August 1st, 2020:
Circulating Supply: 1,089,476,340
Burned Total: 504,329,057
Total Supply: 2,898,494,611
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 currently running irregularly in focused 24 hour events, keep your eyes open for announcements! In the last month we had to take a break since our core dev running this faucet got caught in Coronavirus lockdown with bad internet, but the next round will start soon(tm)!

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 July 2020, we’ve freely distributed a total of ~12 Million BANANO (June: 20 M; May: 21 Million). Just to name the major events, this has happened through faucet payouts (Bananominer, Powerplant, Monkeytalks, BoomPow), ViteX Airdrop, 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 August 1, 2020, more than 40 Million BANANO were tipped in more than 338,000 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 August 1st, 2020 compared to counts from January 2020:

Main social media accounts:
Discord: 13028 (Jan 2020: 9444)
Twitter: 13941 (Jan 2020: 6634)
Reddit: 4831 (Jan 2020: 3632)
Telegram (main group): 6823 (Jan 2020: 6499)
Telegram (news channel): 3000 (Jan 2020: 2009)
Facebook: 2359 (Jan 2020: 2092)
Instagram: 1728 (Jan 2020: 1396)
Youtube: 732 (Jan 2020: 433)
LBRY: 1134 (Jan 2020: 145)
Tiktok: 131 (new)

Blogs:
Publish0x: 2919 (Jan 2020: 672)
Uptrennd: 5341 (Jan 2020: 1451)
Medium: 490 (Jan 2020: 409)

Tracking websites:
Blockfolio: 1426 (Jan 2020: 1106)
Coingecko: 801 (Jan 2020: 492)

Even more:
Steemit: 42 (Jan 2020: 25)
Hive: 39 (Jan 2020: 25)
QQ: 1154 (Jan 2020: 294)
Wechat (QR): 281 (Jan 2020: 241)
Weibo (QR): 83 (Jan 2020: 92)
Minds: 45 (Jan 2020: 37)

BananoJobs: 1445 (Jan 2020: 845)
BananoMarket: 283 (June 2020: 161)
Banano Royale: 1792 (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 August 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: 2277 (Jan 2020: 2654)
Indonesian: 1134 (Jan 2020: 681)
Vietnamese: 488 (Jan 2020: 559)
Turkish: 405 (Jan 2020: 528)
Portuguese: 359 (Jan 2020: 419)
Russian: 303 (Jan 2020: 244)
Filipino: 183 (Jan 2020: 180)
Italian: 472 (Jan 2020: 279)
Romanian: 136 (Jan 2020: 153)
Chinese: 150 (Jan 2020: 171)
Polish: 205 (Jan 2020: 175)
India: 217 (Jan 2020: 75)
French: 92 (Jan 2020: 65)
German: 89 (Jan 2020: 76)
Greek: 122 (Jan 2020: 96)
Croatian: 691 (Jan 2020: 141)
Korean: 34 (Jan 2020: 36)
Japanese: 39 (Jan 2020: 31)
Arabic: 326 (Jan 2020: 29)
Dutch: 117 (Jan 2020: 34)
Hungarian: 95 (Jan 2020: 91)
Latvian: 19 (Jan 2020: 16)
Hebrew: 23 (Jan 2020: 18)
Persian: 40 (Jan 2020: 16)
Bangla: 259 (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: 1078 (Jan 2020: 748)
Spanish: 2855 (Jan 2020: 2754)
Vietnamese: 530 (Jan 2020: 525)
Portuguese: 86 (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 #28 (August 2020)

BANANO is (not) Here for a Pump on Tiktok

A Real-World Crypto Hunting Game: Banano World

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