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October's Swarm Community Call brought together several developments that show how Swarm is moving beyond infrastructure into applications people can actually use.
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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.
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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.
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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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Swarm Summit 2024: Upload the future - RECAP
On 20-21 June 2024, the developer of decentralised data storage and distribution technology Swarm held its sixth annual summit which was also Swarm’s first IRL summit in five years.
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Swarm Summit 2024: Upload the future
This time, we're setting up in Central Europe’s hidden gem, Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 20 to 21 June we’ll get together at the local cultural powerhouse, Kino Šiška, with a roster of builders and believers who see beyond the horizon and understand that the future is being written in today’s code.
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The monthly call, written up — what shipped, what was shown, what was asked.
- 29 OctoberOctober's Swarm Community Call brought together several developments that show how Swarm is moving beyond infrastructure into applications people can actually use.
- 24 SeptemberSeptember’s Swarm Community Call showed work moving from proposition into practice: Bee’s first PubSub implementation, a published paper on deletable content in immutable storage, SwarmID used by 14 projects at ETHRome, and a working demo of AI agents discovering data, paying for access and building verifiable reputation on Swarm.
- 27 AugustAugust’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.
- 30 JulyJuly’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.
- 25 JuneJune'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.
- 28 MayMay’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.
- 30 AprilApril’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...
- 26 MarchMarch’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...
- 26 FebruaryFebruary’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.
- JanuaryThe 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...
- December - Solstice EditionThe 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.
- 27 NovemberAfter 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.