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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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Monthly Development Update – December 2025
December closed out a focused month of release readiness and ecosystem momentum across Swarm.
Development updates
State of the Network: November 2025
November saw significant changes across several network metrics compared to the previous two months. Total rewards, win values, and average earnings per active node increased, while the number of active staking nodes, winning nodes, and reachable full nodes decreased. This report summarizes the observed values for rewards, participation, and geographic distribution during the month.
Development updates
Swarm Strategic Focus Framework (2026)
The strategic direction for 2026 is structured around five key themes that define where Swarm will concentrate research, core development, and ecosystem efforts over the year.
Development updates
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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Monthly Development Update – November 2025
November brought coordinated progress across Swarm’s protocol, research, tooling, and ecosystem layers. On the protocol side, the Bee 2.7 release candidate is now live on public testnet...
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State of the Network: October 2025
October brought a month of steady performance across the Swarm network, with rewards, win values, and node participation settling into tight, predictable ranges. Following September’s normalization phase, operators saw stable incentives, balanced win distributions, and a consistent global node footprint.
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Swarm Foundation Partners with CryptoMondays
Swarm Foundation Partners with CryptoMondays to Power the Future of Decentralized Media
Ecosystem
Monthly Development Update – October 2025
This month’s efforts continued to concentrate on delivering the Bee v2.7 release, now in its final testing phase. The work brings several significant improvements...
Development updates
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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State of the Network: September 2025
September marked a month of recalibration for the Swarm network, following two strong months of growth in July and August. While total rewards and win values adjusted downward from August’s peak, the network maintained strong participation levels, and both active and reachable node counts remained stable.
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Monthly Development Update – September 2025
Bee 2.7 is close to having all release items finalized, with a strong mix of performance improvements and new features. The research track is benchmarking different scenarios in the ongoing research into Swarm’s incentive systems...
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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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State of the Network: August 2025
August brought another month of strong performance for the Swarm network. Total rewards climbed to the highest level seen this year, and both median and average win values continued to rise, further improving payouts for node operators.
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Monthly Development Update – August 2025
The Bee team made steady progress on the WASM implementation contributions, a key part of assisting in the otherwise community driven development of Bee in the browser.
Development updates
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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