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State of the Network: July 2025
July was a standout month for the Swarm network, delivering the highest increase in rewards we’ve seen in a long time. Total rewards, average payouts, and median wins all climbed sharply — and with fewer nodes actively staking, those who did participate enjoyed significantly larger individual payouts.
Development updates
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.
Events
Monthly Development Update – July 2025
In July, the Bee team released Bee 2.6.0, drastically reducing node spin-up times and improving the onboarding experience. The Research team also reached a significant milestone with the completion of the BeePort app, which allows users to pay for storage on Swarm from other chains. A revision of the entire incentives and staking structure is also underway, following community proposals.
Development updates
Bee Version 2.6.0 Goes Live!
Bee v2.6.0 brings faster than ever startup times (~10x faster!) so you can get busy uploading and downloading from Swarm in just a couple minutes.
Development updates
State of the Network: June 2025
The June 2025 edition of the State of the Network report presents an overview of key activity and performance metrics across the Swarm network. These figures provide insight into node participation, reward distribution, and geographic activity throughout the month.
Development updates
Monthly Development Update – June 2025
In June 2025, the Bee Track took a pause to rethink its entire testing strategy after an unexpected delay to the 2.6 release. Meanwhile, the Bee and Research Tracks continued their collaborative work on the SWIP for pullsync protocol improvements and made notable progress on the in-browser node project.
Development updates
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.
Events
Programme announcement: Swarmonomics
Swarm Foundation is excited to announce that Shtuka Research is partnering with the organisation as an external research contributor to map out the economic landscape of the Swarm Network
Ecosystem
State of the Network: May 2025
May saw a modest rebound in xBZZ-denominated rewards and node participation compared to April. Although some metrics remained below their earlier peaks, the network demonstrated signs of stabilization.
Development updates
Swarm Community Call, 19 May – Recap
May’s Swarm Community Call was somewhat special, as the team tuned in live from EthPrague. From a simplified node experience to new client implementations and discussions on token utility, May’s call highlighted progress toward making Swarm more accessible, performant, and integrated with real-world use cases.
Events
Monthly Development Update – May 2025
Node onboarding became even faster—nodes now spin up in under 5 minutes thanks to improved warm-up logic and postage snapshot support. The in-browser node project kicked off, spearheaded by Pavel with the Bee team’s protocol-level support, initially focused on WebSocket integration and more.
Development updates
State of the Network: April 2025
April saw a return to declining xBZZ-denominated rewards and node participation, reversing the brief rebound observed in March. However, it is important to note that this apparent downturn coincided with a near 100% increase in the fiat price of BZZ.
Development updates
Monthly Development Update – April 2025
In April 2025, the Bee Track focused on deeper network insight and faster node onboarding ahead of the 2.6 release. Swarmscan is now richer with new metrics that track upload/download performance, retrieval efficiency, and node responsiveness—giving a clearer picture of how the network behaves in real time.
Development updates
Swarm Community Call, 24 April – Recap
April’s Swarm Community Call was full of exciting updates, collaborative plans, and a look at Swarm’s growing role in the decentralised ecosystem.
Events
Feeling Cute. Might Delete It Later? The Challenge of Deletion and Swarm’s DREAM Solution
Swarm introduces an innovative solution called DREAM (Deletion by Revoking Encryption Access for Mutable resources), which tackles deletion not by physically erasing data, but by ensuring data becomes completely inaccessible once deleted.
Development updates
State of the Network: March 2025
March data shows a notable change in network metrics, with total-network rewards increasing significantly compared to February, marking the first such increase in the last several months. This shift occurs alongside a continued decrease in active staking nodes. The combination of increased total rewards and fewer active nodes has resulted in significantly higher per-node rewards this month compared to recent months.
Development updates