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Monthly Development Update – March 2025
In March 2025, the Bee Track focused on improving upload and download efficiency with Release 2.5, including optimisations to the pusher, pushsync protocol, and peer routing.
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Swarm Community Call, 27 March – Recap
The March Swarm Community Call covered significant progress on network stability, multi-chain support, enhancements to node usability, and ease of node spin up.
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State of the Network: February 2025
With February now complete, network trends indicate continued stabilization. While total rewards declined slightly, the rate of decrease remained moderate, suggesting incentive dynamics are nearing equilibrium. Corresponding to the drop in active nodes, the average earnings per node saw a slight increase.
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Monthly Development Update – February 2025
In February, the Bee Track invested significant effort into improving the performance and efficiency of Bee, with teams working on version 2.5.
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Swarm Community Call, 27 February – Recap
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Bee Version 2.5.0 - Pre-release Notice
We're excited to announce that Bee v2.5.0 will be released in less than two weeks on March 11th! This update focuses on improving Bee node performance, reducing operational costs, and enhancing network stability.
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State of the Network: January 2025
January data reflects a trend towards greater stability, with many metrics remaining roughly in line with those of the previous month. While rewards did continue to decrease, the rate of decrease has slowed significantly, and network participation from nodes remains relatively stable, reflecting continued dedication to the network.
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Swarm Community Call, 30 January – Recap
The January Swarm Community Call kicked off 2025 with significant updates across core development areas, highlighting planned performance improvements and the upcoming multichain feature.
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State of the Network: December
As 2024 came to an end, the network demonstrated a range of trends reflecting seasonal and structural shifts. December data shows notable declines across key metrics compared to November and earlier months, with some metrics stabilizing after sharper fluctuations earlier in the year. These insights provide a deeper understanding of network performance, participation, and reward distribution dynamics.
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Monthly Development Update – December 2024
December was an exciting month for the Swarm Network. The Bee 2.3 update doubled the reserve size and the odds of winning the redistribution game.
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Monthly Development Update – January 2025
This month, the focus was on improving upload and download speeds in Swarm, with teams working closely together to test bug fixes and benchmark results.Bee 2.4.0 was released in honour of ldeffenb.
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Swarm Winter Solstice Event 2024: Time for real-world impact
This year’s Winter Solstice Event marked a decisive turning point. Now feature-complete, Swarm stands ready for its next chapter: to deliver on the promise of being the backbone of Web3.
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Monthly Development Update – November 2024
The Swarm network is preparing for an important upgrade. SWIP-21 is already on the public testnet and once implemented, it will increase nodes’ reserve size.
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Swarm Community Call, 28 November – Recap
In November, the Swarm Community Call brought exciting updates from across the project teams.
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State of the Network: November
In this report, we analyze the Swarm network’s performance for November 2024. By examining key metrics such as total rewards, win values, average node earnings, and geographic distribution, we gain insights into the network's trends and dynamics.
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Swarm & Fair Data Protocol: From Data Silos to Decentralised Control
Imagine a decentralised Dropbox, where all your files, documents and application data are stored securely and privately—only accessible to you
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