The Swarm Foundation announced exciting updates at its recent semi-annual solstice event. Phase 2 of its ambitious network upgrade is now live on mainnet, allowing Swarm’s storage node operators to be compensated for their contributions. Introduction of staking and +1000x storage rent fee increase Staking has been introduced to enable participation in the redistribution mechanism. The mechanism resembles Ethereum’s…

“For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk.” (Stephen Hawking) On 21 December, when light symbolically conquers winter darkness, the Swarm Foundation invites you to the winter solstice event. …

The Bee Track team have been busy throughout November, continuously improving the deployment and testing process to improve its efficiency. They have recently cleaned out and fixed issues on their testnet and are now working on having new testnets — beta, public, and internal. …

An economically self-sustaining mechanism to gather storage operators. Introduction Historically, people had two choices when it came to hosting their data: they could either store it themselves or upload it to a trusted third party computer. Regarding the latter, the source of this trust is typically that the host — usually…

The upgrade of the Swarm network storage incentives, which began on 13 September, is now in full swing. Both, Phase 2 and 3 of the upgrade, are currently undergoing extensive testing: Phase 2 on the public testnet and Phase 3 on a closed testnet. During the testing period of Phase…

The development of the Swarm network and its associated ecosystem continues to move forward as planned. Bee client 1.9.0 is out and the team behind Bee is fully focused on meeting the timelines for bringing storage incentives to mainnet (they are already available for preview on testnet). There’s also a…

maintained by the community member MFW78 — What is this? Blockchain sits at the fore-front of novel, technological development, with most software being written by specialists, with little attention given to the end user experience — out-of-date documentation (when the documentation actually exists!) and how-tos attempting to guide people through being able to actually use the software. This issue is…

“Wikipedia on Swarm” prize — open only until 1 September Constanza Gallo opened the August Monthly Ecosystem Call with a reminder that the “Wikipedia on Swarm” prize submissions are open only until 1 September. If you would like to participate for the 50,000 DAI prize, you can still go to Fair Data Society Discord or send an email to Wikiprize@ethswarm.org. …