Monthly Development Update – November 2025

November brought coordinated progress across Swarm’s protocol, research, tooling, and ecosystem layers. On the protocol side, the Bee 2.7 release candidate is now live on public testnet with major connectivity and security upgrades, while the team continues hardening tests and reviewing feeds compatibility to ensure a smooth upgrade path for dApps. In parallel, research efforts are sharpening Swarm’s economic and network design – from a planned price oracle SWIP and stake withdrawals redesign to testnet explorations on other chains – while Beeport and other UX-focused components receive steady polish.

On the tooling and ecosystem front, the JS track is expanding with a Multichain Library and CLI improvements, and Solar Punk is pushing ahead with MCP integrations, the File Manager in the Desktop App, decentralized streaming, and new partnerships like CryptoMondays – showcased live at Devconnect in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile DevRel work continues to make Swarm more accessible and intuitive for developers.

Mark 21 December in your calendar, when a Solstice edition Community Call will be broadcast, bringing a half-year overview and a look at what’s coming next.

Bee Track

• Bee 2.7 release candidate is live on public testnet, including all major planned features and fixes; public testing is underway with a focus on browser-facing integrations.
• Key connectivity and security upgrades deployed, including multiple underlay address support and AutoTLS enabling secure WebSocket connections and improved networking performance.
• Core dependency upgrades and testing hardening completed, with Golang and libp2p updates, flaky test fixes, expanded unit test coverage, and ongoing WSS/AutoTLS integration testing.
• Feeds compatibility review is in progress, addressing backward incompatibility introduced by recent changes and exploring mitigations to ensure a smooth upgrade path for dApps.

Research Track

• The price oracle optimization proposal has a draft that will become a SWIP to moderate the price while the network is in the bootstrap stage - although more nodes have joined, the price is still trending lower.
• Beeport shipped a small epic of bug fixes that make it more stable and smoother to use.
• The stake withdrawal SWIP is in the final stages of approval and will reshape how staking works in the network.
• Ongoing explorations of testnets on other chains.

JS Track

Multichain Lilbrary

• We are developing a cross-environment library and an accompanying embeddable web widget that helps our users fund their Bee node with an improved user experience. While most cross-chain swap solutions only support a single token output, the Multichain Library project allows setting arbitrary xDAI and xBZZ values — the two essential currencies required to set up and operate a Bee node.

Swarm-CLI

• Released version 2.36.1, which fixes a download issue where large files were not streamed to disk properly.

Ecosystem

Solar Punk

• We continued making Swarm MCP more robust; final steps of testing are in progress, and you can already try it by cloning the repo here.
• As a part of our MCP efforts we’ve created a Swarm plugin for Hashgraph’s leading AI ecosystem conversational agent framework. The implementation has been officially accepted by HashGraph (source code).
• The File Manager is in its final testing phase and will be released together with the Desktop App. It offers an easy-to-use interface for users who may be unfamiliar with Swarm concepts.
• Our B2B Multimedia Streaming solution is now available – if you are interested in experimenting with decentralized video streaming for your business, reach out to us! We already have a page dedicated to Solar Punk videos.
• We are excited to welcome CryptoMondays as the first partner to stream their videos using our technology.
• Solar Punk participated at Devconnect 2025 in Buenos Aires. In addition to numerous business and technical discussions with potential partners, we were proud to organize a half-day side-event, a deep dive into the future of AI, decentralization, and Web3: Concept to Commit: Decentralized AI & Media.
  • Decentralized AI Panel: we brought together leaders shaping an open and autonomous AI ecosystem: Migle (Creative Director & Founder, Womxn in Web3 Privacy & Winprivacy), David Johnston (Lead Technologist, MorpheusAI), Sándor A. Nagy (COO of Swarm), András Arányi (CTO, Solar Punk) and Črt Ahlin (COO, Datafund). The recording is available on the CryptoMondays streaming site.
  • Launch Your Own AI Agent on Swarm: Learn how to create and deploy your own decentralized AI agent directly on Swarm - fully off-chain, autonomous & censorship-resistant.
  • How to Decentralize Any Frontend?: Discover how to host dApps and websites entirely on decentralized infrastructure.
  • Decentralized Streaming: Experience decentralized media in action. Learn how video, audio & live content can be streamed efficiently across P2P networks.

Content

• The Evolution of Streaming on Swarm: Introducing MSRS

Partnership

• Swarm Foundation Partners with CryptoMondays

DevRel

Documentation

• New sections of the Develop on Swarm page have been drafted (see PR# 758 of the bee-docs repo), introducing readers to manifests and webpage routing on Swarm. These sections are set to be published the first week of December.

Content

• Swarm Community Call, 30 October – Recap
• Monthly Development Update – October 2025
• State of the Network: October 2025

Events

Swarm Community Call – 27 November

The November Swarm Community Call highlighted the Bee v2.7 release candidate, now live on public testnet with improved connectivity and AutoTLS for secure, browser-friendly Swarm usage. The team shared Devconnect Buenos Aires impressions – where privacy, ZK tech, and AI+crypto dominated discussions – and outlined new collaborations around decentralized streaming, dAI, DeSci, and developer tooling. The Swarmonomics community talk proposed a significantly different tokenomics direction: scaling and simplifying staking, shifting to fixed fees, and moving toward a clear, transparent tokenomics roadmap.

You are welcome to read the recap here or listen to the recording here.

Upcoming events

Solstice edition Community Call – 21 December

There will be no standard last-Thursday-of-the-month Community Call in December. Instead, we will host a Solstice Special on 21 December — a special edition marking the end of the year. Add it to your calendar!

People & Culture team

If you are interested in joining the team and believe you have outstanding skills, visit our career page https://www.ethswarm.org/jobs or simply drop us a message at talent@ethswarm.org!