Although Moonbeam quickly gathered attention from enthusiasts  in recent time, I was very suprised to find almost no discussion of this long-awaited project on BitcoinTalk.

Moonbeam provides an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications. It's also a parachain on the Polkadot network, which brings the benefits of shared security and additional integrations with other parachains on the Polkadot network. As a blockchain project, tackling cross-chain interoperability, it is  capable of bridging the gap between Etheruem and Polkadot

Moonriver (MOVR) (Moonbeam’s Sister Project) is a smart contract blockchain that supports Ethereum decentralized applications, Moonriver is intended to operate on Kusama as a parachain and provide a full EVM implementation, a Web3-compatible API and bridges that connect Moonriver to existing Ethereum networks. Moonriver also plans to implement a built-in integration for all Kusama and ERC-20 tokens and bridges to other assets like Bitcoin.

Moonriver won the auction with a total amount of 205,935 KSM bonded to its project showing great community support. Moonbeam also shows serious investors backing, with CoinFund, Coinbase, Binance Labs, ParaFi Capital, IOSG Ventures, Fenbushi Capital etc. among them.

Moonriver will be live in the following weeks, so it's not too late to take part. the project’s Crowdloan initiative is well worth keeping an eye on. For now you still have an opportunity to join the ambassador program to be one of the early participants.

Official website: https://moonbeam.network/
Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/PfpUATX
Telegram community: https://t.me/Moonbeam_Official
Twitter: https://twitter.com/moonbeamnetwork and https://t.me/MoonriverNW
Moonbeam Foundation Website - https://moonbeam.foundation/
Official Docs - https://docs.moonbeam.network/