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Bee v1.6 Release
This latest release is an accumulation of a lot of work done in the last couple of months by the team. We’ve improved and refactored substantial amount of components and areas of the codebase as well as fixed a few critical bugs
Development updates
New and improved Bee UX coming Q2
Based on this, in Q1 of 2022, efforts were dedicated to creating a fluid and easy user experience when setting up a Bee node on the majority of operating systems.
Monthly Development Update — April 2022
April was the month of spring cleaning for different tracks around Swarm. The Bee client saw a patch release to fix some critical issues, while the BeeJS team also cleared up some minor bugs with the new Bee-js release. On the ecosystem side, the Swarm community near and far got treated to a Monthly Ecosystem Call.
Development updates
Bee v1.5 Release
The Bee team is happy to announce the latest release v1.5 This release comes with significant changes to how the Bee nodes store data locally.
Development updates
Monthly Development Update — March 2022
March was marked by the WAM hackathon, organised by Fair Data Society in partnership with Swarm. Three weeks of talks, demos and presentations connected artists, gamers, developers and activists in an effort to build a better Web. Important partnerships were forged, like the one between Kiwix and Swarm that will see the whole of Wikipedia uploaded to Swarm’s decentralised storage.
Development updates
Swarm as a platform for a self-sovereign digital society
The text below is a recap of Viktor Tron’s talk from the We Are Millions Hackathon (WAM) and Festival. You can listen to the entire talk here.
Events
Kiwix and Swarm partner up to preserve free online access to information
The world is facing extreme uncertainty amidst a socio-economic crisis, and censorship is ramping up to levels never seen before.
Ecosystem
The Rise of Bee — Airdrop AMA
Answers to your questions about Bee airdrop
Monthly Development Update — February 2022
There’s no rest for the wicked and February has kept the Swarm team busy as always. A new Bee client release saw the light of day, as have three new releases from the BeeJS team. But the main focus of the entire Swarm team is to realise Milestone 2 of the technical roadmap, announced last December, in sync with the specified timeline.
Development updates
Swarm & Fairdrive onstage at ETH Denver 2022
On Friday, 18 February 2022, Angela Vitzthum, the Product Owner for Fairdrive, took the Wave stage at ETH Denver to introduce the audience to Swarm and more specifically to Fairdrive.
Events · Ecosystem
Can we take NFTs beyond overpriced pixels?
As the pace of technological evolution quickens and intensifies, it also exerts an increasing influence on all spheres of life, including art.
Ecosystem
Important update: Swarm’s Bzzaar is about to open. Update your nodes asap.
Swarm is about to take a giant step closer to the mainnet release by deploying a new release of Swarm. The upcoming release (estimated Tuesday, 9 February, 09:00 CET) includes, among others, an integration with Bzzaar (on Goerli).
Development updates
Development Update — December 2021 & January 2022
With 2021 behind us, the Swarm team entered the new year at the usual pace, working hard to make Swarm features complete by the end of the year.
Development updates
Hello, this is Swarm. A short introduction. Rinke Hendriksen’s EthCC Talk
The text below is a recap from Rinke Hendriksen’s EthCC [4] talk “Hello World, Swarm” from July 2021. In it, he gives a concise but complete introduction to the inner workings of the Bee nodes that make up the Swarm network.
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Swarm — storing data for the world computer
The idea of the world computer was born out of Ethereum’s founding fathers’ vision for a new and better Web. In it, Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffery Wilcke envisioned a serverless Web, free of large corporations and one which could be economically self-sustaining through blockchain technology.
Development updates
If you’ve missed it, here’s the Gather, Swarm! event recap
The Gather, Swarm! event is now behind us. It was the first-ever for the team behind Swarm to meet with the community in the metaverse and to present what they have up their sleeves for the following year.
Events