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Digital Freedom Now.

Swarm is a decentralised data storage and distribution technology. Ready to power the next generation of censorship-resistant, unstoppable, serverless dapps.

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“If Ethereum is the world’s CPU, Swarm is the world’s Hard Drive” - Viktor Tron

Privacy for individuals ↔ Trust for the data economy

Unstoppable data

Swarm continues where the blockchain ends, making the world computer real.

Open & Borderless

Swarm is open source code, limited only by the people who use and maintain it - Join a community building the future of the web.

Fault-tolerant

Redundant storage with local replication ensures data availability even in the face of node dropouts or data loss.

No downtime

Swarm is decentralised and distributed, and so it’s also always up, making it stable and reliable.

Privacy first

Swarm nodes provide cryptographic support enabling you to use network in an unrestricted way while building blocks like “Single-owner-chunks” enable extraordinary zero-leak privacy.

DDOS resistant

Swarm network is fully decentralised peer-to-peer network while it’s resilience against DDoS grows with every additional node in the network.

Credible neutrality

Swarm is built to not discriminate - it’s in the very nature of our design, and permeates throughout our mission.

Why Swarm

How it works

Sustainable Development Goals

Odyssey Data Upload

The Swarm Foundation aims to empower non-profits to store their data securely and censorship-resistant. Swarm will subsidize data uploads from selected projects to incentivise public goods and advance the Great Data Upload.

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Real-world ready

Develop fast and free

Swarm provides a complete stack of essential base layer components for developers. Create and host dApps, NFT meta-data, and media files decentralised!

Swarm stack

Desktop app

Bee is a peer-to-peer client that connects you with other peers all over the world to become part of Swarm network, a global distributed p2p storage network that aims to store and distribute all of the world's data.

Documentation

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What is happening

Swarm News

#development · 3 min read

Postage Stamp Price Increases as Swarm Network Reaches Milestone of Self-Sustainability

This upgrade is a significant milestone in the development of the Swarm network, as it enables Swarm node operators to earn rewards in exchange for contributing their storage resources to the network

#Ecosystem · 4 min read

Swarm commits 2 million BZZ to drive privacy, interoperability, and data sovereignty

Following years of incubation, the Fair Data Society initiative graduated and moved onto an independent path. With this, Swarm Foundation has pledged 2 million BZZ in the coming 10 years, to champion support for layer 2 projects that empower digital freedom, privacy, and interoperability. The pledge was officially announced at the Fair Data Society graduation event, ‘New Day’ on March 21st 2023.

#Development update · 3 min read

Monthly Development Update – February 2023

February was a big month for the Swarm network. The price of postage stamps has been recalibrated with the release of Bee 1.12.0, which marks a major milestone for Swarm’s self-sustaining network. The Research Track has also completed the documentation for Phase 4, which details the work of this phase of the Storage incentives roadmap.

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Decentralise web

Your decentralised web3 dapp in 4 steps

1. Fork on GitHub

Find a forkable project that should be decentralised or extended.

2. Connect to FDP

Extend it with the Fair data protocol so that users have their data saved in their private data store.

3. Upload to Swarm

Once hosted on Swarm it becomes accessible to all, with essentially zero hosting costs for developers.

4. Grow through FDP

Submit requests to be added in Fairdrive’s dapp store and make it available to existing Fairdrive users.

Interoperability and data sovereignty

Fair Data Protocol

Fair data protocol enables a fairer data economy that promotes human rights through privacy, digital sovereignty, and data interoperability, and allows developers to focus on building their dapps rather than reinventing data stores.

Fair data PROTOCOL

Fair data SOCIETY

fairOS

→ filesystem on Swarm
→ key-value store
→ db doc
→ works in browser (WASM)

Documentation

fairDRIVE

→ data wallet for end users
→ customise easily (white label)
→ GDPR support
→ fast development

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One Swarm, united in PLUR, guided by virtue

Build on Swarm

Swarm grants and online events support many interesting projects that are already building their products on top of Swarm.

Etherna

Etherna is a transparent video platform FOR EVERYONE where freedom of speech is incentivized, not convicted.

Dapplets

Dapplets aims to leverage target websites’ search results to pull data previously uploaded to Swarm, providing an interface for data interchange between the Dapplet and the search result provider.

Copyright Delta is building the Digital Rights Exchange & Network (DRX) which allows users to control their data and decide who has access to it. DRX also enables tokenised management of royalties, licensing and ownership.

Metaprovide

Metaprovide has implemented a Nextcloud plugin that enables users to interact with Swarm storage directly in Nextcloud Files bringing Nextcloud users closer to the vision of a decentralized future.

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See who’s building

BUILDING A BRIGHTER, UNSTOPPABLE WEBZ

Imagine a society where human rights are respected and your data is not used against you to influence what you think.Explore the power of art, blockchain, and games and help create a fair, ethical, private, censorship-free, permissionless and unstoppable Web3. Join other like-minded artists, gamers, developers, activists, and crypto-enthusiasts, as well as curious and knowledgeable souls.

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Moving from knowledge to engagement

Bounties for impact

Swarm Bounties are a call to action for experts from various fields to contribute their knowledge and expertise, so we can move closer to a fairer data society.

Bounty #1

Develop a censorship resistant blog architecture.

Bounty #2

Implement a subgraph to obtain BZZ price data.

Bounty #3

Integrate Social Archive and Dapplets to allow data to be found.

Bounty #4

Integrate WinAMP with Fairdrive.

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