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Ease of Use / 5 min

Live Coding Without a Server: Real-Time Collaborative Editing on Swarm

Our open-source library brings real-time collaborative editing to Swarm: shared cursors, no collaboration server. On npm now, with a working Remix IDE proposal.

15 Oct 2026 · Read article →
Streaming & Chat / 6 min

Live Streaming Without a Platform: Broadcasting the Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress on Swarm

Solar Punk's new streaming stack puts a live stage on Swarm, with no platform in the middle. First public run: Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress, Mumbai, 2 Nov.

13 Oct 2026 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 6 min

Verifiable Words for AI Agents: Putting Sema on Swarm

Sema gives AI agents a shared vocabulary whose every term is identified by its hash. Our proof of concept distributes it on Swarm with those guarantees intact.

14 Sep 2026 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 1 min

Unlocking the AI-Driven Health Data Economy: Your Health, Your Data, Your Equity

A proposed model where Health DAOs pool members' data on Swarm, license it to researchers, and pay each contributor by a public formula written into a contract.

15 Jun 2026 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 6 min

Data-enriched AI Marketplaces: From Prototype to the Future of Agentic Commerce

How AI agents can discover, trade and pay for data without a central platform: our Swarm marketplace prototype, and the road from it to agentic commerce.

13 Jun 2026 · Read article →
Ease of Use / 4 min

The Swarm File Manager: Bridging the Gap Between Web2 Comfort and Web3 Power

Swarm File Manager makes decentralized storage familiar with drives, drag-and-drop uploads, version history and erasure coding. Explore the release and roadmap.

3 Mar 2026 · Read article →
Ease of Use / 4 min

The Swarm File Manager: Bringing Cloud Storage Usability to Decentralized Storage

The Swarm File Manager turns postage stamps, feeds and erasure coding into familiar drives, version history and a trash bin, so Swarm feels like the cloud.

6 Oct 2025 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 4 min

From Universal Adapters to Decentralized Minds: The MCP Revolution

MCP became the universal adapter between AI agents and tools. Swarm MCP brings it to decentralized storage, so agent memory has no single owner to switch off.

24 Sep 2025 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 3 min

The Future of AI is Decentralized, and It's Being Built on Swarm

Our Swarm MCP proof of concept lets AI agents upload, retrieve and share data on Swarm through the Model Context Protocol, with no central server in between.

7 Aug 2025 · Read article →
Ease of Use / 4 min

Unlocking True File Ownership: Swarm Desktop File Manager & Swarm Drive

A first look at the File Manager coming to Swarm Desktop and the Swarm Drive proof of concept, which syncs local folders to decentralized storage on Swarm.

9 Jul 2025 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 3 min

Unlocking New Business Models: Introducing Access Control (ACT) in Swarm’s Decentralized Storage Network

Access control on Swarm lets businesses decide who can read stored data and revoke it later, unlocking business models built on monetizing valuable data assets.

23 Sep 2024 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 6 min

Introducing the Access Control Trie (ACT) in Swarm

The Access Control Trie lets Swarm publishers grant and revoke access to encrypted content per grantee. A guide to how ACT manages keys, grantees and security.

16 Sep 2024 · Read article →
AI & DeSci / 2 min

Fake IDs & Fraudulent KYC: Can Crypto Find Salvation in Swarm-Powered Decentralisation?

AI-forged IDs now pass crypto KYC checks. How encrypted, user-controlled identity records on Swarm and zero-knowledge proofs could verify facts privately.

6 Feb 2024 · Read article →
Ease of Use / 3 min

Understanding Erasure Coding in Distributed Systems: A Guide to Swarm’s Innovative Approach

Erasure coding lets Swarm rebuild data even when chunks go missing. See how parity chunks balance redundancy, security and storage cost across the network.

1 Feb 2024 · Read article →