Where the network meets

A day dedicated to exploring the foundations of trust —authentication, authorization, safety, and auditability— required to safely design and verify the emerging economy where AI agents autonomously conduct transactions, settlements, and negotiations. A core event of ETHTokyo Week 2026 and an official side event of ETHGlobal Tokyo.

Could interconnected communities form a collective intelligence capable of responding to planetary crises? Drawing on complexity theory, biological metaphors, and spiritual philosophy, Sterlin explores how ecovillages and parallel societies might become a decentralized network for shared learning and problem-solving. A speculative vision of community-building as both practical cooperation and a search for collective meaning.

We’ve seen Governance models continuously evolve in Web3. Let’s walk through a brief history of the space, different models, and approaches. What worked and what didn’t work? Are there any examples outside Web3 we could learn from?

An introduction to Logos Circles and grassroots organizing for parallel societies: local groups working together to meet community needs and strengthen civil society.

How mapping land ownership can help communities shape their future. Charlie explores the histories, relationships, and power behind property boundaries, drawing on collaborative housing and community land trusts.

Rethinking housing through shared stewardship and collective ownership. Clara examines property as a relationship between people and explores how cooperative structures and digital tools could support community housing.

Luna shares both achievements and challenges across land, architecture, financing, technology, and everyday community life. A practical account of building a regenerative village, bringing together ecological restoration, community living, and collective governance.

Michel Bauwens of Cosmo-Local Initiative and P2P Foundation presents a masterclass on cosmo-local production.

• Core Development Updates — Bee 2.8.2 with Elad
• In Focus: Etherchunk with Áron
• Community Talk: Streaming over Swarm with Levilk

A discussion following Adam’s Industrious Modernity keynote, bringing Adam Arvidsson and Michel Bauwens together to reflect on capitalism and its relationship with the commons.

A historical exploration of capitalism and commons-based production, asking how economic activity could support shared prosperity while accounting for the social and ecological costs of production.

A roundtable discussion led by Adam Arvidsson, with Michel Bauwens and participants, reflecting on the state of the commons and the questions facing commons-based ways of organizing society.

• Core Development Updates — Bee 2.8.1, core client and research updates with Elad and Callum
• Community Talk: Vertex — a Rust implementation of a Swarm node, with mfw78
• Community AMA & Open Space — Bring questions to Discord stage-chat

• Core Development Updates — Bee 2.8.1 and research updates with Elad & Callum
• In Focus & Community Talk: Berlin Blockchain Week report with Mina, Migle, Koss & special guest Alaska
• Community AMA & Open Space — Bring questions to Discord stage-chat

BREW live streaming workshop demo

Test my mobile device

• Core Development Updates — Bee 2.8.0 Release (Elad)
• In Focus: Hackweek Report — Swarm Collab App (Balint and Nugaon) + In-Browser Node progress (Abel)
• Community Talk: EthPrague + Hackathon Recap (Áron and Levi)

• On-demand content — host and serve media on a decentralized infrastructure
• Censorship resistant — no single entity can take your content down

• Beeport — web2 rails for Swarm, upload without running a node
• Desktop App — your own node for full decentralization
• Bee light node + Swarm-cli — full terminal control, scriptable and CI/CD ready

• Swarm Accelerator Hackweek Report
• Announcements
• Community AMA & Open Space for Debate — Ask a question via this form

• Equip Your Agent — connect an AI tool to Swarm's unstoppable storage for decentralized "memory"
• Swarm MCP — a native decentralized data layer for your agent
• Autonomous — no single point of failure, fully off-chain

• Core Development Updates — with Ljubiša Gačević
• In Focus: Protocol Reshaping — with Andrew Macpherson
• Community Talk: The Mobile Node — with Nandor Komlodi

• Architecture — P2P network, chunks and the distributed hash table
• Storage model — file chunking, neighborhoods and redundancy
• Economics — postage batches and incentive mechanisms

• Core Development Updates — Bee 2.7 release & what’s coming next
• In Focus: New Developer Guides — Clear paths for builders on Swarm infrastructure
• Community Talk: File Manager — Familiar file workflows in the Desktop App

• Bee 2.7 — AutoTLS, browser connectivity foundations, and opt-in multi-underlay support
• Hedera × Swarm — desktop integration demo: stamps, uploads, and Feeds via a Hashgraph agent
• x402 payments — pay USDC → upload to Swarm → get a shareable link, hackathon demo

• Network & UX — node spin-up from 40 min to under 5; Beeport multichain, Desktop file manager
• Ecosystem — MSRS decentralised streaming, Swarm MCP for AI agents, identity model PoC
• Tokenomics — candid update; staking withdrawals and 2026 iteration roadmap announced

• Bee 2.7 RC — live on public testnet with multi-underlay and AutoTLS support
• Devconnect BA — streaming with CryptoMondays, MCP for ElizaOS, DeSci health data MVP
• Swarmonomics — Shtuka Research: scale staking, freeze price oracle, publish tokenomics roadmap

• Bee 2.7 — final testing: multiple underlay addresses, Auto-TLS, SOC replica feature complete
• Beeport launched — upload from any wallet, ENS linking; live demo including full website deploy
• AI dev tools — Context-7 MCP server indexes Swarm docs for AI coding assistants

• Bee 2.7 — erasure coding, SOC replica, AutoTLS finalised; bandwidth incentive benchmarking
• File Manager — Solar Punk's drive-based UX with versioning, drag-and-drop, and Spotlight search
• IPSH — MetaProvide's IPFS-compatible endpoints backed by Swarm storage; tiered service model

• Bee 2.6 — 80% faster node sync; 2.7 targets WebAssembly browser nodes with AutoTLS
• Ecosystem — Swarmy updates, Beeport in testing, Solar Punk MCP proof of concept
• Web3 & AI — conversation with CryptoMondays' Lou Kerner on policy, privacy, and decentralised AI

• Bee 2.6.0 — faster startup and sync; node operators must migrate stakes after upgrade
• Bee 2.7 plans — AutoTLS for browser nodes, pull-sync metrics, feed update responsiveness
• Swarm MCP — universal adapter for AI agents: file uploads, feeds, ACT-based private data sharing

• Bee 2.6 — delayed for security review; faster spin-up, improved test environment with isolated clusters
• Swarmonomics — Shtuka Research year-long study of BZZ market dynamics and incentive design
• Etherna Bee.net — 3× faster large-file hashing; Beehive meta-node with bulk upload and enhanced pinning

• Fast node startup — pre-synced snapshots eliminate batch syncing; multichain app enters beta
• WebAssembly Bee — in-browser client by Pavel/ENS: peer connections and API calls already working
• Rust client — mfw78's lightweight, portable Bee implementation; multiple protocol-level SWIPs submitted

• Bee 2.6 — faster onboarding, improved postage sync, new Swarm Scan metrics for node behaviour
• Multichain beta — buy Swarm storage with any EVM wallet; no node, no stamps complexity needed
• Hivello — Swarm joins DePIN aggregator with 40k+ nodes and 1M hours daily uptime

• Bee 2.5.0 — better GC, faster retrieval; ~70% of nodes upgraded with stable early results
• Multichain MVP — cross-chain stamp purchase via gateway; open for community beta testing
• Bee-JS v9 — token classes, client-side stamping, full Manifest API, client-side chunking

• Bee 2.5.0 — shipping March 11; improved GC, faster uploads/downloads, voluntary network metrics tool
• Multichain app — all EVM chains + Solana; select size and duration, pay in any token
• Postage UX — community discussion: abstract depth/amount into plain size + duration across all tools