Welcome to the Bi-Weekly Bean, the newsletter that recaps the latest happenings in the Beanstalk ecosystem. This issue covers the 10/17/22– 11/1/22 period from Season 7781 to 8170.

What is Beanstalk? Beanstalk is a permissionless fiat stablecoin protocol built on Ethereum. Learn more at bean.money.

Happy Halloween Farmers!

Zombie Bean has arrived on the Farm and has been busy redecorating! Listen to Beanthoven's song and check out the new UI theme.

The BCM updated Beanstalk to fix a bug in the Pod Market reported by a whitehat on Immunefi last week (no funds were at risk). You can read about EBIP-3 here.

The Beanstalk Community Grant Program has now been live for one quarter. In this article, we recognize the excellent community-produced content that was awarded Beans during Q3 2022.

A beta release of the new Beanstalk analytics website is live and the October Beanstalk Farms and Bean Sprout budget reports are here and here.

Lastly, feel free to drop by Discord if you have any questions—the community is always available to help and answer questions.

Protocol Summary

The price of Bean crossed peg 141 times and is currently at $1.0001. Bean liquidity dropped by 1.1% to ~$27.7M.

The Pod Rate (The ratio of outstanding Pods per Bean, displayed as a percentage) decreased by 19.3% to 2341%.

The Temperature decreased by 382% to 4051%

Notes and Recordings

• Beanstalk University #47 — Tuesday October 18
• Beanstalk DAO Meeting #40 — Thursday October 21
• Beanstalk University #48 — Tuesday October 25
• Beanstalk DAO Meeting #41 — Thursday October 27

Protocol Updates

• EBIP-3: Pod Market bug fix

Beanstalk Farms Updates

• Halloween theme is released on app.bean.money
• BIP-29 Generalized Pipeline audit in progress
• BIP-30 Sunrise Improvements
• A full re-audit of Beanstalk is also in progress

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