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Swarm Winter Solstice Event 2024: Time for real-world impact

This year’s Winter Solstice Event marked a decisive turning point. Now feature-complete, Swarm stands ready for its next chapter: to deliver on the promise of being the backbone of Web3.

Dec 23 Foundation Events

Announcing Fellowship: Libraries for Efficient Multimedia Delivery & Social Networking

Swarm fellowships are designed to support individuals and teams working on critical projects that help the Swarm network evolve and grow.
Nov 8 Foundation Ecosystem

Monthly Development Update – December 2024

December was an exciting month for the Swarm Network. The Bee 2.3 update doubled the reserve size and the odds of winning the redistribution game.
Jan 5 Foundation Development updates

Swarm Community Call, 28 November – Recap

In November, the Swarm Community Call brought exciting updates from across the project teams.
Dec 3 Foundation Events

Swarm & Fair Data Protocol: From Data Silos to Decentralised Control

Imagine a decentralised Dropbox, where all your files, documents and application data are stored securely and privately—only accessible to you
Nov 28 Foundation Tutorials

Swarm Community Call, 31 October – Recap

The improved price oracle is now better at matching supply and demand, creating a fairer market value of the price of storage and will be included in the upcoming release.
Oct 1 Foundation Events

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 Development updates

State of the Network: December

As 2024 came to an end, the network demonstrated a range of trends reflecting seasonal and structural shifts. December data shows notable declines across key metrics compared to November and earlier months, with some metrics stabilizing after sharper fluctuations earlier in the year. These insights provide a deeper understanding of network performance, participation, and reward distribution dynamics.

Jan 20

Monthly Development Update – December 2024

December was an exciting month for the Swarm Network. The Bee 2.3 update doubled the reserve size and the odds of winning the redistribution game.

Jan 5

Monthly Development Update – November 2024

The Swarm network is preparing for an important upgrade. SWIP-21 is already on the public testnet and once implemented, it will increase nodes’ reserve size.

Dec 5

State of the Network: November

In this report, we analyze the Swarm network’s performance for November 2024. By examining key metrics such as total rewards, win values, average node earnings, and geographic distribution, we gain insights into the network's trends and dynamics.

Dec 3

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

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

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

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