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Bee-js beta release and upcoming roadmap

Only one month after our alpha release, we are happy to announce the beta release of Bee-js. It’s a JavaScript library which exposes the Bee functionalities and makes it easy to use in web projects.

How to run a Bee node and earn gBZZ

As we head towards the Swarm 1.0 release, we are working hard on expanding the network as much as possible. We are happy to see that the number of active Bee nodes is bigger day by day and the reality of a truly decentralized world computer is closer than ever.

Tutorials

Swarm communication has moved to Discord

We invite you to join our discussions and become an active member of our wonderful community.

Liberate Data Week Hackathon — Recap

If you attended the Liberate Data hackathon last week, then you’ll know we had an amazing time. We were truly humbled by the participation and the support shown

Events

Swarm is airdropping 1,000,000 BZZ

Yes, you read it right. Swarm is giving out 1 million BZZ tokens to the people who already run a Bee node on the testnet. We call this airdrop “The Rise of Bee”.

Monthly Development Update — January 2021

The beginning of 2021 was busy as always. After a short New Years’ Eve break, the team dived right back into work and we are happy to share two new releases — the new release of Swarm Bee and the Alpha release of the bee-js libraries.

Development updates

Swarm secures funds for mainnet release

Swarm Association is pleased to announce the successful completion of its private fundraiser that ended with the recent Swarm Live release, raising USD 6 million.

Meet Bee-js — a JavaScript library for Swarm

As you probably know, the JavaScript team is one of the latest additions to the Ethereum Swarm organization. The team has been working relentlessly and here are the first fruits of their work.

Development updates

Hackathon Guidelines, Rules, and Programme

Make sure you don’t miss the Liberate Data Week, a Fair Data Society organized event, that will run from 8–14 February 2021.

Events

Swarm 2020 Recap

As 2020 is becoming a thing of the past, it is time to evaluate what Swarm achieved throughout the year and share its plans for this year.

The A, B, C of the Swarm Incentives

If you attended the Swarm Live release online event, you probably know that all the research in recent months has paid massive dividends. We have made significant improvements and now have a very good idea of how the Swarm incentives will work.

Monthly Development Update — December 2020

December is the closing month of the year and most of the teams took time to reflect on the work that was done throughout the year. We are happy to conclude that the year was fruitful for Swarm. Many important milestones were met and a lot of progress was made.

Development updates

Liberate Data Week — Join the Hackathon

2020 is over and Swarm is continuing with the strong pace that was set last year. The team is working relentlessly towards Swarm 1.0, which is set for release in Q2 this year, but before we get there, there is still a lot to happen.

Events

Come together, Swarm Beta wave grant recipients!

This year really has been something, huh? It’s been a year to remember. As much as there was good happening, it certainly had its downs and stress. Here is some exciting news for 2021 as we have the pleasure to announce new stars at the dawn of a new paradigm, a fair data economy.

Grants

How-to: Run Bee on a DappNode Raspberry Pi

Using a Raspberry Pi makes running a Bee node cheap and reliable. With DappNode, installing Bee is a breeze.

Tutorials

Swarm Live — Release notes and important links

As you probably know, we released the “Swarm Live” version of Swarm on 24 November 2020. This version has a lot more stability and improved performance, and it also has all the high-level features of the Swarm 1.0 release.

Development updates