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Announcing Fellowship: Data and Model Provenance for Decentralised AI

Swarm fellowships are designed to support individuals and teams working on critical projects that help the Swarm network evolve and grow.
Sep 16 Foundation Ecosystem

Bee Version 2.2.0 - Node Operators' Guide

This node operator's guide contains step by step instructions for the requirements to upgrade your node to 2.2.0 as well as instructions for other new features such as neighborhood hopping and partial withdrawals. To learn more about all the new features included in the 2.2.0 release, check out the one week announcement article.
Sep 5 Foundation Development updates

Monthly Development Update – August 2024

In August, the Bee Track deployed the Bee 2.2 release on the public testnet. Expect a final release soon. It includes Access Control Trie (ACT) for managing the confidentiality of content, neighbourhood hopping with transferable stakes and the option to withdraw stakes.
Sep 5 Foundation Development updates

Swarm Community Call, 26 September – Recap

The Swarm Community Call in September was filled with updates and new ideas, most of which were driven by community input
Oct 1 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 29 August – Recap

During the August call, Niki Papadatou took the audience through the new features that are packed in the upcoming Bee 2.2.
Sep 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 25 July – Recap

July’s Swarm Community Call brought exciting updates on node operator incentives and usability, multi-chain support plans and community-developed optimised chunk production for compact usage of postage buckets.
Jul 30 Foundation Events

Swarm Summit 2024: Upload the future - RECAP

On 20-21 June 2024, the developer of decentralised data storage and distribution technology Swarm held its sixth annual summit which was also Swarm’s first IRL summit in five years.
Jul 2 Foundation Events

Swarm Development updates

Monthly Development Update – September 2024

September was an important month for Swarm. SWIP-21 has been finalised and now it's time for the Bee and Research Track to go into development and find a suitable technical solution for its implementation.

Oct 5

State of the Network: September

A detailed analysis of the Swarm network's performance metrics for September 2024, including total rewards, node activity, and geographic distribution of staking nodes.

Sep 11

State of the Network: August

This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for August 2024, highlighting changes in network rewards, win values, node activity, and geographic distribution. By comparing these metrics to previous months, we can better understand the ongoing development of the network.

Sep 11

Monthly Development Update – August 2024

In August, the Bee Track deployed the Bee 2.2 release on the public testnet. Expect a final release soon. It includes Access Control Trie (ACT) for managing the confidentiality of content, neighbourhood hopping with transferable stakes and the option to withdraw stakes.

Sep 5

IoteX partnership announcement

The Swarm Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with IoTeX, integrating with DePINscan to elevate the transparency and real-time tracking of the Swarm network and joining their DePIN liquidity pools.
Jun 11 Foundation Ecosystem

DePIN Helps Onboard the Next Million Crypto Users

Web3 has been an industry that gives birth to multiple cross-industry trends. There were the ICOs and early NFTs in 2017, DeFi and play-to-earn in 2020, the second wave of NFTs
Jun 3 Swarm Hive Ecosystem

Swarm Community Call, 30 May – Recap

With the recent release of Bee 2.1 came a refactored localstore that brings increased stability and performance and a lower level of chunk loss.

Jun 3 Foundation Events

Swarm Summit 2024: Upload the future

This time, we're setting up in Central Europe’s hidden gem, Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 20 to 21 June we’ll get together at the local cultural powerhouse, Kino Šiška, with a roster of builders and believers who see beyond the horizon and understand that the future is being written in today’s code.
May 29 Foundation Events

Swarm unveils a partnership with Digital Ocean

The Swarm Foundation is excited to announce an exciting new partnership with Digital Ocean, marking a significant milestone in its journey to simplify and enhance decentralised storage accessibility.

May 20 Foundation Ecosystem

Bonding curve shutdown

May marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Swarm network: as of May 4th, 12:00 PM UTC, the Swarm bonding curve has been shut down following a community vote held on Snapshot.
May 10 Foundation Ecosystem

The Origins of Swarm

It struck us that it has been 10 years since the idea of Swarm was formulated. Can you believe it is one decade old? That’s a real shocker! Let’s go 10 years back and see how it all started.
May 8 Swarm Hive Ecosystem

Swarm Community Call, 25 April – Recap

After intensive testing and development, the Bee team is on the brink of releasing Bee 2.1, focusing on critical updates to the local storage system.

May 7 Foundation Events

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