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State of the Network: September 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for September 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – September 2026
September brought work on faster syncing, greater operator control and reliability as the Bee team prepared the next release. Research set a firm direction for moving stamp handling to Ethereum, while SDK and app updates improved feeds, file management and video streaming.
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State of the Network: August 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for August 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – August 2026
August was a month of hardening the foundations while pushing more of Swarm into practical use: Bee 2.8.2 strengthened node resilience and security, Bee-JS 13 and the new Core SDK brought Swarm primitives out of the node and into applications, and for the first time the Swarm Community Call was streamed live over Swarm.
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State of the Network: July 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for July 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – July 2026
July saw Swarm development return to its regular pace after the Bee v2.8.1 stabilization release, with work advancing across the protocol, research, developer tooling, applications, and the wider ecosystem.
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State of the Network: June 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for June 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – June 2026
June was a month of steady, practical progress across the Swarm stack: Bee v2.8.1 was locked in and announced for July 7, Swarm-CLI v3.3.0 redesigned ACT access control, Bee Factory and Gateway kept maturing as developer infrastructure, and Swarm spent a full week at Berlin Blockchain Week...
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State of the Network: May 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for May 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – May 2026
May was a month of hardening, cleanup, and practical progress across the Swarm stack: Bee v2.8.0 shipped as a targeted security release, research moved closer to publishing the tokenomics roadmap, and tooling across Bee-JS, Swarm-CLI, Gateway, and Bee Factory saw usability updates...
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Bee Version 2.8.0 Released
Bee v2.8.0 is a security-focused release that hardens Bee's p2p layer with improvements to handshake validation, peer address records, underlay handling, signed timestamps, nonce validation, chequebook verification, and protocol compatibility. It includes breaking p2p protocol changes, so node operators should upgrade promptly.
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State of the Network: April 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for April 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – April 2026
April's development work focused on tightening the foundations: better performance, cleaner tooling, stronger reliability, and smoother user flows across...
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State of the Network: March 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for March 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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Monthly Development Update – March 2026
March focused on stabilizing the foundations laid in the 2.7 cycle while starting to reshape how protocol work gets done. Bee v2.7.1...
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State of the Network: February 2026
This report provides an overview of the Swarm network's key metrics for February 2026, including rewards, participation levels, and node distribution, and places them in context with recent monthly trends.
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