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Feeling Cute. Might Delete It Later? The Challenge of Deletion and Swarm’s DREAM Solution

Swarm introduces an innovative solution called DREAM (Deletion by Revoking Encryption Access for Mutable resources), which tackles deletion not by physically erasing data, but by ensuring data becomes completely inaccessible once deleted.
Apr 18 Foundation Development updates

Bee Version 2.5.0 - Pre-release Notice

We're excited to announce that Bee v2.5.0 will be released in less than two weeks on March 11th! This update focuses on improving Bee node performance, reducing operational costs, and enhancing network stability.

Feb 27 Foundation Development updates

Monthly Development Update – April 2025

In April 2025, the Bee Track focused on deeper network insight and faster node onboarding ahead of the 2.6 release. Swarmscan is now richer with new metrics that track upload/download performance, retrieval efficiency, and node responsiveness—giving a clearer picture of how the network behaves in real time.
May 5 Foundation Development updates

Swarm Community Call, 24 April – Recap

April’s Swarm Community Call was full of exciting updates, collaborative plans, and a look at Swarm’s growing role in the decentralised ecosystem.
May 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 27 March – Recap

The March Swarm Community Call covered significant progress on network stability, multi-chain support, enhancements to node usability, and ease of node spin up.
Apr 1 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 27 February – Recap

Web3 is sometimes difficult for the end user because of the underlying reimagined infrastructure that is focused on agency and privacy. That’s why we need to make it better.
Mar 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 30 January – Recap

The January Swarm Community Call kicked off 2025 with significant updates across core development areas, highlighting planned performance improvements and the upcoming multichain feature.
Feb 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Development updates

Monthly Development Update – April 2025

In April 2025, the Bee Track focused on deeper network insight and faster node onboarding ahead of the 2.6 release. Swarmscan is now richer with new metrics that track upload/download performance, retrieval efficiency, and node responsiveness—giving a clearer picture of how the network behaves in real time.

May 5

Feeling Cute. Might Delete It Later? The Challenge of Deletion and Swarm’s DREAM Solution

Swarm introduces an innovative solution called DREAM (Deletion by Revoking Encryption Access for Mutable resources), which tackles deletion not by physically erasing data, but by ensuring data becomes completely inaccessible once deleted.

Apr 18

State of the Network: March 2025

March data shows a notable change in network metrics, with total-network rewards increasing significantly compared to February, marking the first such increase in the last several months. This shift occurs alongside a continued decrease in active staking nodes. The combination of increased total rewards and fewer active nodes has resulted in significantly higher per-node rewards this month compared to recent months.

Apr 7

Monthly Development Update – March 2025

In March 2025, the Bee Track focused on improving upload and download efficiency with Release 2.5, including optimisations to the pusher, pushsync protocol, and peer routing.

Apr 5

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

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

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

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

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

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