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Understanding Swarm’s bandwidth incentives
Swarm works the way it does because it is formed of many independent nodes that collaborate to store and deliver your data. But why do these nodes collaborate and can’t the system be abused? Understanding Swarm’s bandwidth incentives is key to answering these questions.
Development updates
It’s coming! Don’t miss the Gather, Swarm! event.
The Gather, Swarm! event is only a few days away. The Swarm team will be moving beyond the boundaries of the usual Zoom calls, taking the gathering into the virtual world. Exploration, Easter eggs, interactivity and more await you!
Events
Swarm airdrop is finishing on 21 June 2021 — Important notice to all participants
The airdrop is coming to an end. And what a ride it has been. Since the announcement of the airdrop, the Swarm network has grown from 200 Bee nodes to hundreds of thousands of Bees all over the globe.
Announcing The Swarm Foundation Technical Milestones
Swarm Foundation is proud to share the internal agenda of its tech team’s for the upcoming 12 months. The aim is to create predictability in the development tracks and the wider organisation as well as help coordinate between the Foundation’s efforts and the efforts deployed to the broader Swarm community.
Development updates
Defining API Security in Web3 Applications
The Swarm Bee team is excited to announce that an initial version of the Restricted API feature is available and ready for experimentation!
Tutorials
Hacking with Swarm and Bee-js
The Swarm ecosystem is young, and there is always space for a lot of cool utilities, apps, and use cases. We support developing on Swarm with a set of libraries, CLIs, and utilities. I will demonstrate how to utilize some of these components with a small hacking session.
Tutorials
Bee v1.4.0 Release
The Swarm Bee Team is proud to announce the release of Bee v1.4.0. It includes a major change to the protocol behaviour that will improve network resilience significantly. You must update your nodes to this latest version or they will no longer be part of the network.
Development updates
#1 Meanwhile in Swarm
A lot has happened since the last update. The Bee team implemented important changes to the network: check out the Bee 1.3.0 release.
Development updates
#1 Meanwhile in Swarm
A lot has happened since the last update. The Bee team implemented important changes to the network: check out the Bee 1.3.0 release.
Development updates
The Swarm is Moving On (or: Don’t Fall Behind) By Elad Nachmias
The Bee team has been working hard on measuring and identifying key problems in the swarm DHT these last few months.
Development updates
Retro Chic is always cool. So is Winamp on Swarm.
If you started to listen to mp3s at the turn of the century, there’s a very good chance you did it on Winamp. The iconic music player has amassed an almost cult-like following that persists to this day. No wonder someone was bound to show up and decide to bring it to life in a Web3 setting.
Ecosystem
Bee v1.3.0 Release
Two weeks after the 1.2.0 release, Swarm Foundation is releasing a new version of Bee. The most important thing to know is that Bee will now block peers that don’t agree on the same block hash of a certain block height.
Development updates
To build a project on Swarm, plan for what features Swarm will provide in three years’ time— a talk by Elad Verbin
“The most powerful force is social collaboration and Swarm will empower thousands of developers to create a rich ecosystem to supercharge our lives.”
Ecosystem
BZZ Tokenomics
This blog is for all you BZZ holders, node operators, Swarm riders and anyone else who is interested in decentralised data ownership. The goal is to provide all the essential info on the topic of Swarm’s tokenomics.
The Final Countdown — Announcing the 4th round of Swarm grant recipients
Swarm Association is proud to announce yet another round of grantees, with great project ideas that show the diversity of use cases for Swarm. Read short descriptions of what new grantees are working on here below.
Grants