Web3 has been an industry that gives birth to multiple cross-industry trends. There were the ICOs and early NFTs in 2017, DeFi and play-to-earn in 2020, the second wave of NFTs
It struck us that it has been 10 years since the idea of Swarm was formulated. Can you believe it is one decade old? That’s a real shocker! Let’s go 10 years back and see how it all started.
The Wikipedia Prize, launched at the Swarm Summer Solstice event in June 2022, sought for a solution that observes a Wikipedia offline archive and uploads it to the Swarm network, and it had an initial reward pot of 50k DAI to be paid in BZZ. The goal was to allow for Wikipedia in any language to be easily uploaded to the Swarm network, making it resilient to the potential grip of censorship.
The Swarm Association is announcing a 50,000 DAI “Wikipedia on Swarm ”prize (paid in BZZ) for a solution that observes a Wikipedia offline archive and uploads it to the Swarm network
The text below is a recap of Viktor Tron’s talk from the We Are Millions Hackathon (WAM) and Festival.
The world is facing extreme uncertainty amidst a socio-economic crisis, and censorship is ramping up to levels never seen before.
If you started to listen to mp3s at the turn of the century, there’s a very good chance you did it on Winamp. The iconic music player has amassed an almost cult-like following that persists to this day. No wonder someone was bound to show up and decide to bring it to life in a Web3 setting.
“The most powerful force is social collaboration and Swarm will empower thousands of developers to create a rich ecosystem to supercharge our lives.”
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