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Swarm Community Call, 24 September – Recap
September’s Swarm Community Call showed work moving from proposition into practice: Bee’s first PubSub implementation, a published paper on deletable content in immutable storage, SwarmID used by 14 projects at ETHRome, and a working demo of AI agents discovering data, paying for access and building verifiable reputation on Swarm.
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Swarm Community Call, 27 August – Recap
August’s Swarm Community Call was streamed over Swarm itself for the first time. The call covered the security-focused Bee 2.8.2 release and the hardening work that follows it, introduced Etherchunk — a practical approach to reclaiming storage capacity on immutable storage — and took a close look at the streaming system that was delivering the broadcast, including a parallel test of an in-browser Swarm node.
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Swarm Community Call, 30 July – Recap
July’s Swarm Community Call covered the protocol work following Bee 2.8.1 — Hive peer discovery, PullSync hardening, simulation tooling and backward compatibility between versions — a research reprioritization toward network usability, and a community talk introducing Vertex, an independent Rust implementation of a Swarm node.
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Swarm Community Call, 25 June – Recap
June's Swarm Community Call covered the upcoming non-breaking Bee 2.8.1 release in final testing, and an extended field report from Berlin Blockchain Week — talks, panels, The Plural Monolith livecoding installation, a Subcult demo, and DeSci conversations.
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Swarm Community Call, 28 May – Recap
May’s Swarm Community Call covered a breaking Bee 2.8.0 release requiring urgent operator upgrades, a research update on the next wave of protocol work, two Swarm Hackweek follow-ups, and a full EthPrague + hackathon report with bounty winners.
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Swarm Community Call, 30 April – Recap
April’s Swarm Community Call was intentionally different: rather than the usual monthly segment rotation, the call served as a high-level report-out from the Swarm Accelerator Hackweek in Budapest...
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Swarm Community Call, 26 March – Recap
March’s Swarm Community Call widened the lens beyond pure client updates: we introduced Koss as Swarm’s new Community Lead, shared a short preview of upcoming workshops and conference presence**, then moved into the Bee 2.7.1 patch release debrief...
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Swarm Community Call, 26 February – Recap
February’s Swarm Community Call focused on three areas: a look back at the Bee 2.7 release and what comes next, a walkthrough of the new “Building on Swarm” developer guides, and a forward-looking community talk on identity management.
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Swarm Community Call January - Recap
The first Swarm Community Call of 2026 focused on what’s shipping next in Bee 2.7, what the Research track is stabilizing at the protocol level, and two concrete ecosystem integrations...
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Swarm Community Call December - Solstice Edition – Recap
The Solstice edition of the Swarm Community Call offered a thorough overview of the past half year, and if there was a single meta-theme, it was this: Swarm is trying to make decentralization feel less like a ceremony and more like a default.
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Swarm Community Call, 27 November – Recap
After opening with core development updates, the November Swarm Community Call focused on the fresh impressions from Devconnect Buenos Aires and a deep dive into Swarmonomics.
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Swarm Community Call, 30 October – Recap
The October Swarm Community Call delivered major updates on Bee v2.7, Devconnect plans, a live launch of Beeport, and a look at how AI can assist you in exploring and developing on top of Swarm.
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Swarm Community Call, 25 September – Recap
The September Swarm Community Call highlighted major progress toward the upcoming Bee 2.7 release, an update on incentive system research, and ecosystem presentations ...
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Swarm Community Call, 28 August – Recap
The August 2025 Swarm Community Call covered progress in core development, looked ahead to the development roadmap, and wrapped up with a big-picture conversation about the shifting landscape of Web3 amid policy changes, privacy, and decentralised AI.
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Swarm Community Call, 31 July – Recap
The July 2025 Swarm Community Call covered key updates in core development, introduced a new initiative connecting Swarm to decentralised AI, and wrapped up with a short community AMA.
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Swarm Community Call, 26 June – Recap
The June 2025 Swarm Community Call provided important updates from core development, community discussions on tokenomics, and showcased performance and UX innovations.
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