Ethereum Beam Chain update: 8 new teams join, plan to rename due to trademark issues involving 'Beam'

Ethereum core developer Justin.eth Drake shared the progress of Beam Chain's first community conference call on Twitter, and announced February 28th as the time for the second conference call, which will focus on technological advancements. Due to trademark issues with the name 'Beam', the project will be renamed. The meeting summarized the joining of 8 new teams, the support of 6 main network consensus layer teams, and the introduction of 2 new coordinators who joined the Ethereum Foundation. At present, Beam Chain has a total of 14 consensus layer teams, covering all continents except Antarctica, using multiple programming languages including Zig, C, C++, C, etc., and multiple self funded teams have emerged. Justin believes that Beam Chain provides an excellent entry point for developers to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying technology of Ethereum L1. In addition, the conference also discussed the key role of ZKVM (Zero Knowledge Virtual Machine) technology in Beam Chain and announced a series of research and development plans, including ZK acceleration and multilingual support. Previously, researchers from the Ethereum Foundation proposed a consensus layer upgrade proposal called "Beam Chain", which was dubbed "Ethereum 3.0" by the community.