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Swarm Accelerator 2026 Hackdays: Eleven Projects, One Decentralized Stack
For five days in late April, eleven teams formed, built, and demoed projects on top of Swarm — spanning AI agents, decentralized data marketplaces, mobile browsers, food traceability, email bridges, and more. Here's what they built.
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State of the Network: April 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for April 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – April 2026
April's development work focused on tightening the foundations: better performance, cleaner tooling, stronger reliability, and smoother user flows across...
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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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State of the Network: March 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for March 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – March 2026
March focused on stabilizing the foundations laid in the 2.7 cycle while starting to reshape how protocol work gets done. Bee v2.7.1...
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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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State of the Network: February 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for February 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Bee Version 2.7.1 Release Announcement
Bee v2.7.1 is a patch release focused on improvements to the implementation of the multiple p2p protocol support introduced in 2.7.0. It also includes faster startup times, a crash fix, and general maintenance. The release goes live on March 23rd.
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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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State of the Network: January 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for January 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – February 2026
February was a strong month of steady execution across the stack: Bee 2.7.0 rolled out smoothly and is already followed by active testing for the next patch release...
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Monthly Development Update – January 2026
This month’s update covers progress across the Bee, Research, and JS tracks. On the Bee side, the 2.7 implementation is complete, key issues found during testing have been fixed, and final validation is now underway ahead of rollout.
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Bee Version 2.7.0 Release Announcement
Bee 2.7.0 is now live. This release introduces support for AutoTLS and secure WebSocket connectivity, improves the flexibility of the networking layer with support for multiple underlay addresses, and includes targeted improvements to durability, reliability, and overall node stability.
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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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State of the Network: December 2025
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network’s key metrics for December 2025, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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