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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.
May 26 Foundation Development updates

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 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 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 Development updates

Bee Version 2.8.1 Release Announcement

Bee v2.8.1 is a non-disruptive release focused on performance, data durability, and developer experience, with some operational cleanup. It brings faster chunk hashing, crash-safe local storage, reduced blockchain RPC traffic, and a step toward browser-based uploads.

Jun 24

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.

Jun 10

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...

Jun 5

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.

May 26

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

Swarm Community Call, 30 October – Recap

The October Swarm Community Call delivered major updates on Bee v2.7, Devconnect plans, a live launch of Beeport, and a look at how AI can assist you in exploring and developing on top of Swarm.
Nov 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 25 September – Recap

The September Swarm Community Call highlighted major progress toward the upcoming Bee 2.7 release, an update on incentive system research, and ecosystem presentations ...
Oct 1 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 28 August – Recap

The August 2025 Swarm Community Call covered progress in core development, looked ahead to the development roadmap, and wrapped up with a big-picture conversation about the shifting landscape of Web3 amid policy changes, privacy, and decentralised AI.
Sep 4 Foundation Events

Swarm Community Call, 31 July – Recap

The July 2025 Swarm Community Call covered key updates in core development, introduced a new initiative connecting Swarm to decentralised AI, and wrapped up with a short community AMA.
Aug 7 Foundation Events

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