BANANO Monthly Update #65 (September 2023)

Oct 5, 2023 • 6 min read

This BANANO Monthly Update September 2023 summarizes all updates from the BANANO ecosystem in August 2023, which was the 65th month since the BANANO main-net was launched more than 5 years ago.

The idea of those monthly updates is to provide an easy way to keep the Banano community up to date, to provide a proper starting point for new users joining the project, and to be transparent about BANANO’s ongoing free & fair distribution activities and community growth.

BANANO Ecosphere News from August 2023 (newest first)

2023-08-31 Community project update: GetBanano.cc

2023-08-28 cryptomonKeys x wBAN monKeystack NFT design contest results announcement

2023-08-28 JungleTV Tunesday event theme: Viral Tunes

2023-08-26 Community Project announcement: Banano Developer Portal

2023-08-26 Community event starting: Flash Challenge Pokémon Unite 1

2023-08-21 BANANO Monthly Update #64 (August 2023)

2023-08-20 JungleTV event announcement: Poopstar’s Jackbox Games Evening

2023-08-20 cryptomonKeys NFT reveal: cryptomonKey No 101: Folding At Homequarters

2023-08-20 JungleTV Tunesday event theme: Tunes to riot to

2023-08-19 BANANO Monthly Update #64 (August 2023)

2023-08-15 JungleTV Tunesday event theme: HipHop

2023-08-14 Txbit.io exchange is shutting down – withdraw your BAN!

2023-08-09 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) farms updated: 250k BAN/4 weeks for BNB chain, ETH, Polygon and Arbitrum network

2023-08-08 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) v2.6.8 released

2023-08-07 JungleTV Tunesday event theme: Wave music

2023-08-06 Banano BanFam Community Call 42 Recap

2023-08-06 Community Event: Poopstar’s Jackbox Games Evening

2023-08-04 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) v2.6.7 released (WalletConnect Fix)

2023-08-02 Wrapped Banano (wBAN) update: All bridges have been restarted

2023-08-01 JungleTV Tunesday event theme: Live Music

All-time BANANO News list at http://news.banano.how

What the Fork is BANANO?

For those 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 September 1st, 2023:

Circulating Supply: 1,524,212,836 BAN (79.4%)

Team Banano Funds: 394,652,189 BAN (allocated for ongoing free distribution)

Burned Total: 1,483,941,204 BAN

Total Supply: 1,918,865,025 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!

monKeyrice: Answer questions, earn rice for charity, get rewarded in 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 September 1st, 2023:

Main accounts: Discord (38672) | Twitter (32040) | Reddit (70776)

Telegram: Main group (7830) | News channel (2173)

Other: Facebook (3000) | Instagram (2813) | Youtube (3110)

Blogs: Publish0x (7173) | Medium (921)

Tracking websites: Coingecko (9435) | Coinmarketcap (14214)

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 wrapped Banano on probably 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 #65 (September 2023)