BANANO Monthly Update #41 (September 2021)

Oct 15, 2021 • 6 min read

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 September 2021 summarizes all important happenings in the BANANO ecosphere in August 2021, which was the 41st month since the BANANO main-net launch.

Note: This was prepared by me (bantano) already some time ago and then I had to focus on some other things in between and realize I never posted it. So here it is for completeness and to document what happened, even though with quite some delay. The October 2021 BANANO Monthly Update will follow shortly.

BANANO Ecosphere News from August 2021 (newest first)

20210828 BANANO Worldwide Event Announcement

20210827 Wrapped BANANO (wBAN) update for August 28, 2021 to September 25, 2021

20210824 Banano Community Event: Blitz Chess Tournament Announcement

20210819 Freely Distributed BANANO-themed NFTs: cryptomonKeys Update #26

20210819 BANANO Monthly Update #40 (August 2021)

20210811 Community Project: Dungeons and BANANO Announcement

20210811 BANANO is now on Everipedia

20210806 BANANO Minecraft — Community Project Announcement

20210801 wBAN Prize Pool Launches!

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 here.

BANANO Supply

Updated data from September 1st, 2021:
Circulating Supply: 1,322,064,030
Burned Total: 1,483,382,393
Total Supply: 1,919,441,275

You can always check the current BANANO supply via this API.

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 Powerplant
Browser-based altcoin mining that pays rewards in BANANO

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

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, VITE airdrop, tipping allowances and celery (rewards) to core team members, major contributors, moderators etc, and we have regular events and contests organized by the core team or the community.

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, 2021, more than 47 Million BANANO were tipped in more than 568,000 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, 2021 compared to counts from January 2020:

Main social media accounts:
Discord: 36254 (Jan 2020: 9444)
Twitter: 26544 (Jan 2020: 6634)
Reddit: 29287 (Jan 2020: 3632)
Telegram (main group): 12260 (Jan 2020: 6499)
Telegram (news channel): 3566 (Jan 2020: 2009)
Facebook: 2987 (Jan 2020: 2092)
Instagram: 2867 (Jan 2020: 1396)
Youtube: 2660 (Jan 2020: 433)
LBRY/Odysee: 3838 (Jan 2020: 145)
Tiktok: 265 (Aug 2020: 131)

Blogs:
Publish0x: 5880 (Jan 2020: 672)
Medium: 646 (Jan 2020: 409)

Tracking websites:
Blockfolio/FTX: 2691 (Jan 2020: 1106)
Coingecko: 4990 (Jan 2020: 492)
Coinmarketcap: 8810 (Mar 2021: 2583)

BananoJobs: 4405 (Jan 2020: 845)
BananoMarket: 1479 (June 2020: 161)

cryptomonKeys
Discord: 10972 (Oct 2020: 650)
Twitter: 17500 (Oct 2020: 831)
Telegram: 3360 (Oct 2020: 311)
Instagram: 1177 (Oct 2020: 227)

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

Telegram news channel | English

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 at Facebook

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

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 are working hard to make a new version of Banano Runner become real in the not too distant future (yeah we’re saying this since forever, but it will come eventually, no worries). Good things simply take time. We’re always working on different new things and 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!

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.