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Swarm Community Call, 25 July – Recap
July’s Swarm Community Call brought exciting updates on node operator incentives and usability, multi-chain support plans and community-developed optimised chunk production for compact usage of postage buckets.
Events
Monthly Development Update – June 2024
The Research Track began writing specifications and discovery on Swarm multichain support options and will be moving to development ASAP.
Development updates
State of the Network: June
This report provides a detailed analysis of various Swarm network metrics for June 2024, focusing on redistribution-related data. These metrics offer insights into total rewards, win values, earnings, node activity, and geographic distribution, helping to understand trends and performance variations over time.
Development updates
Swarm Summit 2024: Upload the future - RECAP
On 20-21 June 2024, the developer of decentralised data storage and distribution technology Swarm held its sixth annual summit which was also Swarm’s first IRL summit in five years.
Events
IoteX partnership announcement
The Swarm Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with IoTeX, integrating with DePINscan to elevate the transparency and real-time tracking of the Swarm network and joining their DePIN liquidity pools.
Ecosystem
State of the Network: May
The May state of the network report continues to depict the evolving dynamics within the Swarm network, reflecting adjustments and shifts in various metrics.
Development updates
Monthly Development Update – May 2024
Bee 2.1 is out and live. Key changes include improved stability, performance and limits to the number of freezes per round.
Development updates
DePIN Helps Onboard the Next Million Crypto Users
Web3 has been an industry that gives birth to multiple cross-industry trends. There were the ICOs and early NFTs in 2017, DeFi and play-to-earn in 2020, the second wave of NFTs
Ecosystem
Swarm Community Call, 30 May – Recap
With the recent release of Bee 2.1 came a refactored localstore that brings increased stability and performance and a lower level of chunk loss.
Events
Swarm Summit 2024: Upload the future
This time, we're setting up in Central Europe’s hidden gem, Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 20 to 21 June we’ll get together at the local cultural powerhouse, Kino Šiška, with a roster of builders and believers who see beyond the horizon and understand that the future is being written in today’s code.
Events
Swarm unveils a partnership with Digital Ocean
The Swarm Foundation is excited to announce an exciting new partnership with Digital Ocean, marking a significant milestone in its journey to simplify and enhance decentralised storage accessibility.
Ecosystem
Bee Version 2.1 - Two Weeks Notice
The Bee 2.1 release is right around the corner, and is scheduled to go live in just two weeks. This release brings with it several changes aimed at improving node performance as well as changes aimed at making the Bee client more streamlined and easy to work with.
Development updates
Bonding curve shutdown
May marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Swarm network: as of May 4th, 12:00 PM UTC, the Swarm bonding curve has been shut down following a community vote held on Snapshot.
Ecosystem
The Origins of Swarm
It struck us that it has been 10 years since the idea of Swarm was formulated. Can you believe it is one decade old? That’s a real shocker! Let’s go 10 years back and see how it all started.
Ecosystem
Swarm Community Call, 25 April – Recap
After intensive testing and development, the Bee team is on the brink of releasing Bee 2.1, focusing on critical updates to the local storage system.
Events
State of the Network: April
The April state of the network report offers insights into the continuing evolution of the Swarm network, showcasing adjustments across various metrics. Despite fluctuations in rewards, April saw sustained engagement from node operators, reflecting participant resilience.
Development updates