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Bee Version 2.8.2 Release Announcement

Bee v2.8.2 is a security-hardening release, focused on keeping nodes running when the data they receive is not what it claims to be. It is available now, and every node operator should upgrade.
Aug 28 Foundation Development updates

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.
Sep 5 Foundation Development updates

Swarm Community Call, 27 August – Recap

August’s Swarm Community Call was streamed over Swarm itself for the first time. The call covered the security-focused Bee 2.8.2 release and the hardening work that follows it, introduced Etherchunk — a practical approach to reclaiming storage capacity on immutable storage — and took a close look at the streaming system that was delivering the broadcast, including a parallel test of an in-browser Swarm node.
Sep 2 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 30 July – Recap

July’s Swarm Community Call covered the protocol work following Bee 2.8.1 — Hive peer discovery, PullSync hardening, simulation tooling and backward compatibility between versions — a research reprioritization toward network usability, and a community talk introducing Vertex, an independent Rust implementation of a Swarm node.
Aug 5 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 25 June – Recap

June's Swarm Community Call covered the upcoming non-breaking Bee 2.8.1 release in final testing, and an extended field report from Berlin Blockchain Week — talks, panels, The Plural Monolith livecoding installation, a Subcult demo, and DeSci conversations.
Jul 3 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 28 May – Recap

May’s Swarm Community Call covered a breaking Bee 2.8.0 release requiring urgent operator upgrades, a research update on the next wave of protocol work, two Swarm Hackweek follow-ups, and a full EthPrague + hackathon report with bounty winners.
Jun 2 Foundation Events

Swarm at ETHPrague 2026: From booth conversations to stage time, and more hackathon wins than there were bounties

Swarm Foundation joined ETHPrague 2026 — running a booth, mentoring teams, giving talks, and backing nine hackathon projects across four named bounties, one track award, and four custom Swarm rewards.
May 20 Foundation Events

Swarm Development updates

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.

Sep 5

Bee Version 2.8.2 Release Announcement

Bee v2.8.2 is a security-hardening release, focused on keeping nodes running when the data they receive is not what it claims to be. It is available now, and every node operator should upgrade.

Aug 28

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.

Aug 17

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.

Aug 5

Swarm Accelerator 2026 Hackdays: Eleven Projects, One Decentralized Stack

For five days in late April, eleven teams formed, built, and demoed projects on top of Swarm — spanning AI agents, decentralized data marketplaces, mobile browsers, food traceability, email bridges, and more. Here's what they built.
May 19 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 30 April – Recap

April’s Swarm Community Call was intentionally different: rather than the usual monthly segment rotation, the call served as a high-level report-out from the Swarm Accelerator Hackweek in Budapest...
May 5 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 26 March – Recap

March’s Swarm Community Call widened the lens beyond pure client updates: we introduced Koss as Swarm’s new Community Lead, shared a short preview of upcoming workshops and conference presence**, then moved into the Bee 2.7.1 patch release debrief...
Apr 2 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 26 February – Recap

February’s Swarm Community Call focused on three areas: a look back at the Bee 2.7 release and what comes next, a walkthrough of the new “Building on Swarm” developer guides, and a forward-looking community talk on identity management.
Mar 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call January - Recap

The first Swarm Community Call of 2026 focused on what’s shipping next in Bee 2.7, what the Research track is stabilizing at the protocol level, and two concrete ecosystem integrations...
Feb 3 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call December - Solstice Edition – Recap

The Solstice edition of the Swarm Community Call offered a thorough overview of the past half year, and if there was a single meta-theme, it was this: Swarm is trying to make decentralization feel less like a ceremony and more like a default.
Jan 7 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 27 November – Recap

After opening with core development updates, the November Swarm Community Call focused on the fresh impressions from Devconnect Buenos Aires and a deep dive into Swarmonomics.
Dec 5 Foundation Events

Swarm Foundation Partners with CryptoMondays

Swarm Foundation Partners with CryptoMondays to Power the Future of Decentralized Media
Nov 13 Foundation Ecosystem

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