# Swarm

> Fullstack Decentralised

Swarm is a decentralized storage and communication network that provides censorship-resistant infrastructure for Web3 applications.

Swarm is a decentralized storage and communication network that provides censorship-resistant infrastructure for Web3 applications. Users can store data permanently, run unstoppable applications, and communicate privately through its peer-to-peer network. Swarm uses economic incentives to ensure data availability and network sustainability.

- Type: Project
- Sector: Infrastructure
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2018-07-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org

## Products

- [Bee](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org): Bee is a peer-to-peer client that connects users to the Swarm network, enabling participation in decentralized storage and communication. The client handles data storage, retrieval, and network consensus protocols. (Node Software, Live, Main Product)
- [Bee-js](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org): Bee-js is a JavaScript library that provides developers with APIs to interact with the Swarm network, enabling decentralized application development with minimal code. (Developer Tooling, Live)
- [Swarm-CLI](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org): Swarm-CLI is a command-line interface that simplifies node management and decentralized application development on the Swarm network through intuitive commands for file operations and network interaction. (Developer Tooling, Live)
- [Bee API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org): Bee API provides an HTTP interface for interacting with the Swarm network, offering endpoints for node management, data operations, and network metrics access. (Developer Tooling, Live)
- [Swarm Network](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org): Swarm Network is a decentralized storage protocol that distributes data across peer-to-peer nodes, providing censorship-resistant storage with economic incentives for data availability and retrieval. (Decentralized File Storage, Live, Main Product)

## Assets

- [Swarm (BZZ)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org): BZZ is the utility token of the Swarm network, a decentralized storage and communication system built on Ethereum. It is used to purchase postage stamp batches to reserve storage space and to stake for participation in the storage incentive redistribution system. BZZ rewards node operators based on their stake weight, aligning incentives so that nodes storing more data and holding more BZZ earn a proportionally greater share of network fees. (Utility)
- [xBZZ (xBZZ)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ethswarm_org): xBZZ is the bridged version of BZZ from Ethereum to Gnosis Chain. It is used for staking and to pay for storage fees on Swarm. The token may be transferred between Ethereum and Gnosis Chain using the Omnibridge, however only the Gnosis Chain version can directly interact with Swarm network services. (Utility)

## Links

- [Main](http://ethswarm.org)
- [Blog](https://blog.ethswarm.org)
- [Whitepaper](https://papers.ethswarm.org/p/whitepaper)
- [Documentation](https://docs.ethswarm.org)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ethersphere)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/hyCr9BMX9U)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/ethswarm)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@ethereumswarm4033)

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