BANANO Monthly Update #30 (October 2020)

Oct 7, 2020 • 9 min read

BANANO is around since more than two years and growing and going quite well despite all the 2020 craziness. BANANO is 100% freely distributed (don’t worry about gas fees or transaction fees ever again!). Now it’s October already, meaning it’s time for another 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 October 2020 summarizes all important happenings in the BANANO ecosphere in September 2020, which already was the 30th month since the BANANO main-net launch.

The All-New MonKey is Here — Your Visual BANANO Address Representative!

MonKeys are unique and well-known visual account representatives for BANANO addresses since more than 2 years already — about time they got a major upgrade! Announcement | Website

Free BANANO NFTs! CryptomonKeys are here!

The BANANO ecosphere has the monKey concept, memes, and lots of talented artists. The newly launched community project cryptomonKeys now connects BANANO to the world of digital collectibles, with a freely distributed, meme-rich, monKeyfied NFT trading card series! Earn rare cryptomonKeys for free, learn all details by checking the original announcement and by following social media updates and especially join their Discord chat server and Telegram group. There are lots of giveaways ongoing at Twitter and Instagram at the moment!
Announcement | Website | Discord | Twitter | Telegram | Instagram

BANANO x Vite Labs Airdrop Announcement

Recently, BANANO engaged in an official partnership with Vite Labs, another DAG-based crypto project. Connecting communities and blockchains is what the cryptocurrency world should aim for, and we believe this partnership is a great way to increase visibility for both cryptocurrency projects to connect, learn from each other and benefit from each other’s communities, connections and experience. Now, we have announced two BANANO airdrops to the VITE community!
Full Announcement

Official BananoJobs: All Airdrops Paid!

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 even more Official BananoJobs (see also recent reports), which were airdrops at different social media platforms mainly for now. More airdrop and official bounties coming soon! Stay tuned and be ready!
BananoJobs Announcement | Join BananoJobs
BananoJobs Update and Airdrop Report 1 2 3 4 5

New Faucet: BANANO Story2Image Faucet

Recently we began to test 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 two rounds have been a great success with lots of creative images. We’re working on some adjustments, and then more rounds coming likely soon!
Story2Image Faucet Round 1Announcement | Faucet Round 1 Recap
Story2Image Faucet Round 2 Announcement | Faucet Round 2 Recap

The Weekly Peel — BANANO Community Updates!

Even more BANANO News from September 2020

Gods Unchained Welcome Set Tournament 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 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: 1,107,624,302
Burned Total: 504,331,094
Total Supply: 2,898,492,574
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 and refining 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 September 2020, we’ve freely distributed a total of ~16 Million BANANO (August: 12M). Just to name the major events, this has happened through faucet payouts (Bananominer, Powerplant, Monkeytalks, BoomPow, Story2Image faucet), BananoJobs, VITE 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 October 1, 2020, more than 42 Million BANANO were tipped in more than 384,000 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 October 1st, 2020 compared to counts from January 2020:

Main social media accounts:
Discord: 14037 (Jan 2020: 9444)
Twitter: 15032 (Jan 2020: 6634)
Reddit: 5184 (Jan 2020: 3632)
Telegram (main group): 6459 (Jan 2020: 6499)
Telegram (news channel): 2939 (Jan 2020: 2009)
Facebook: 2398 (Jan 2020: 2092)
Instagram: 1810 (Jan 2020: 1396)
Youtube: 802 (Jan 2020: 433)
LBRY/Odysee: 3163 (Jan 2020: 145)
Tiktok: 207 (Aug 2020: 131)

Blogs:
Publish0x: 3773(Jan 2020: 672)
Uptrennd: 6886 (Jan 2020: 1451)
Medium: 515 (Jan 2020: 409)

Tracking websites:
Blockfolio: 1469 (Jan 2020: 1106)
Coingecko: 964 (Jan 2020: 492)

Even more:
Steemit: 42 (Jan 2020: 25)
Hive: 42 (Jan 2020: 25)
QQ: 1154 (Jan 2020: 294)
Wechat (QR): 281 (Jan 2020: 241)
Weibo (QR): 83 (Jan 2020: 92)
Minds: 47 (Jan 2020: 37)

BananoJobs: 1702 (Jan 2020: 845)
BananoMarket: 309 (June 2020: 161)
Banano Royale: 1845 (Jan 2020: 1721)

cryptomonKeys
Discord: 650 (new)
Twitter: 831 (new)
Telegram: 311 (new)
Instagram: 227 (new)

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 October 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: 2158 (Jan 2020: 2654)
Indonesian: 1113 (Jan 2020: 681)
Vietnamese: 373 (Jan 2020: 559)
Turkish: 313 (Jan 2020: 528)
Portuguese: 361 (Jan 2020: 419)
Russian: 298 (Jan 2020: 244)
Filipino: 170 (Jan 2020: 180)
Italian: 637 (Jan 2020: 279)
Romanian: 193 (Jan 2020: 153)
Chinese: 122 (Jan 2020: 171)
Polish: 201 (Jan 2020: 175)
India: 298 (Jan 2020: 75)
French: 105 (Jan 2020: 65)
German: 87 (Jan 2020: 76)
Greek: 122 (Jan 2020: 96)
Croatian: 518 (Jan 2020: 141)
Korean: 24 (Jan 2020: 36)
Japanese: 51 (Jan 2020: 31)
Arabic: 283 (Jan 2020: 29)
Dutch: 121 (Jan 2020: 34)
Hungarian: 76 (Jan 2020: 91)
Latvian: 17 (Jan 2020: 16)
Hebrew: 24 (Jan 2020: 18)
Persian: 100 (Jan 2020: 16)
Bangla: 246 (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: 1131 (Jan 2020: 748)
Spanish: 2881 (Jan 2020: 2754)
Vietnamese: 561 (Jan 2020: 525)
Portuguese: 82 (Jan 2020: 88)
Indonesian: 50 (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 in the not too distant future. Good things take time. We’re also 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 and community projects 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 #30 (October 2020)

The All-New MonKey is Here — Your Visual BANANO Address Representative!