bee
Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data. (by ethersphere)
swarm-desktop
Electron Desktop app that helps you easily spin up and manage Swarm node (by ethersphere)
| bee | swarm-desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| 44 | 3 | |
| 1,436 | 23 | |
| 0.1% | - | |
| 9.3 | 7.3 | |
| 6 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Go | JavaScript | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bee
Posts with mentions or reviews of bee.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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Monthly Development Update – April 2023
Deployed Bee to the mainnet (v1.14.1).
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Daily General Discussion - May 3, 2023
Are you mixing up projects? https://www.ethswarm.org/
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Build on Swarm: How to Run a Bee Node for Testing and Development
You can download the most recent bee packages here: https://github.com/ethersphere/bee/releases/latest
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Monthly Development Update — February 2023
February was a big month for the Swarm network. The price of postage stamps has been recalibrated with the release of Bee 1.20, which marks a major milestone for Swarm’s self-sustaining network. The Research Track has also completed the documentation for Phase 4, which details the work of this phase of the Storage incentives roadmap.
- NextCloud on P2P Nextwork
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Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System
There is a project called Swarm that does exactly this.
https://www.ethswarm.org
(Disclosure: I am working on the project)
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Accessing Data 3.0: Storage Options
https://www.ethswarm.org/ is like storj (stores the file as chunks of data) but more secure and censorship resistant.
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Storage incentives — when, what and how. An EthBerlin meetup recap
In short, there will be five phases to the upgrade (you can expect a more detailed blog on the topic soon). Phase 1 started on 13 September with the breaking release of Bee 1.8.0. This phase will be followed by four other phases that will upgrade the storage incentives mechanism, recalibrate the network, change the storage price, introduce a decentralised price oracle and improve the overall state of the network.
- Daily General Discussion - September 10, 2022
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Monthly Development Update — July 2022
There were two versions of the Bee client released in the last month. It is important to mention that node operators are requested to update to the latest version (1.7.0) as soon as possible because there was a change in the protocol.
swarm-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of swarm-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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Monthly Development Update – April 2023
The JS Track released a new Swarm Desktop version and is preparing for the latest bee-js 6.0.0 release.
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Monthly Development Update — February 2023
The JS Track has released a new version of Swarm Desktop (0.19.2), which adds experimental support for staking when Bee is already a full-node, and BeeJS (5.2.0)
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Monthly Development Update — July 2022
Since then, several new updates were released, and the latest version is 0.15.1, also available from the website. Some of the issues that are mentioned above are already fixed or mitigated, and the team continues to work on polishing the app towards a 1.0 release in the future.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bee and swarm-desktop you can also consider the following projects:
gateway-proxy - Proxy service for the Bee client
bee-status - An app which helps users to setup their Bee node and do actions like cash out cheques
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
blossom - Browser Extension based on Fair Data Protocol
Rabby - The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains
beekeeper - Swarm Beekeeper is an orchestrator that can manage a cluster of Bee nodes and call into their API. It allows various scenario’s to be performed on these nodes. The Swarm team uses Beekeeper internally for integration tests.
arweave - The Arweave server and App Developer Toolkit.
fairdrive-theapp - The main app to browse Fairdrive.
fairOS-dfs - Decentralised File System (dfs) layer of the FairOS
nextcloud-swarm-plugin - Plugin for bridging Nextcloud and Swarm.
fair-portal - Fair Portal lists dApps compatible with Fairdrive.