May 8–10, 2026 · Municipal House, Prague
ETHPrague 2026 brought the Ethereum community back to the Municipal House for three days of talks, hacking, and the kind of corridor conversations that move ideas faster than any panel. Swarm Foundation joined with a booth, two on-site mentors, bounties open across all three hackathon tracks, a talk by Viktor Tron exploring how Swarm's protocol primitives and tooling can support different storage setups and how this creates a practical path from Web2-style usage toward fully decentralized infrastructure, a "probe" into decentralization theatre by Migle Rakitaite, and a resounding panel Decentralisation Stack - Where Are We Still Lying To Ourselves? with distinguished guests.
Read the official ETHPrague 2026 recap for the wider event picture. This post focuses on what Swarm brought, who built with us, and what they walked away with.
At the booth
Set up in the café area, the Swarm booth was the place to meet the team, ask direct questions, and get a practical look at what we are building — from decentralized frontend hosting with Beeport to decentralized streaming, hackathon guidance, and early conversations around the upcoming ambassador program. Uplifting conversations over specialty coffee and the local classic, Marlenka honey nuggets, moved from “what’s the difference between Swarm and IPFS?” to deeper dives into postage stamps, Feeds, ACT, and what it actually takes to build on decentralized infrastructure.
Talks
Three sessions on the program featured Swarm voices — a foundational protocol talk, a cultural audit, and a cross-stack panel.
From Free to Fast: Product Tiers of Decentralised Storage
Speaker: Viktor Trón (Swarm Foundation) · 9 May, 11:15 · Sladkovský Stage · Watch
Viktor walked through the spectrum of what's possible on Swarm — from free self-hosting at one end to high-availability, low-latency delivery at the other — and how the protocol's primitives and tooling combine into distinct service tiers. The framing: a practical on-ramp from Web2-style usage to fully decentralized infrastructure, without the usual "rewrite your stack" cliff.
Decentralisation Theatre
Speaker: Migle Rakitaite (Swarm Foundation) · 9 May, 16:00 · Grégr Stage · Watch
October 2025: AWS went down — and so did Coinbase, MetaMask, Base, and half of "decentralized" crypto. Migle's talk was an honest audit of where the stack actually breaks — frontends, gateways, RPCs, DNS — and why fixing it requires the one thing the industry is bad at: working together instead of pretending we're not all building the same thing.
The Decentralization Stack: Where Are We Still Lying to Ourselves?
Panel: Migle Rakitaite (Swarm Foundation), Viktor Trón (Swarm Foundation), Václav Pavlín (Logos), Mario (Ethereum Foundation), Amir Taaki (DarkFi), Meinhard Benn (Freedom browser), Attila Gazso · 10 May, 11:40 · Grégr Stage · Watch
A cross-stack panel asking the question most decks tiptoe around: what actually breaks if a single company disappears? Infrastructure builders from storage, compute, identity, and frontend sat down for an honest conversation about which parts of the stack are genuinely decentralized — and which parts everyone hopes nobody looks at too closely. No roadmaps. No token plugs.
