Swarm Whitepaper

Swarm is a peer-to-peer network of nodes that collectively provide a decentralised storage and communication service. This system is economically self-sustaining due to a built-in incentive system which is enforced through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain and powered by the BZZ token.

In this paper, we first introduce Swarm's network layer that implements a distributed archive of fixed sized data units. Next we describe high level functionality provided by the API which renders Swarm a viable development stack and deployment environment for the decentralised web.