the book of swarm sent to press this week. DM me if you feel you are due a copy 😊

We’re not just talking about decentralization in Tokyo. We’re streaming through it. 🇯🇵🐝 Across ETH Tokyo week, Swarm will stream multiple events live over our decentralized network. Watch here: streamoverswarm.eth.limo/ Full streaming schedule below ↓

Stunned by a post: a 21-year-old American college student made $43,000 in a month with an AI virtual girlfriend. He set up an OnlyFans account called Maya. This Maya is 22 years old, tagged as a UCF psychology dropout, with 1,247 paid subscribers, and the highest-spending fan shelled out $1,847. But the most crucial part? The girl in those photos doesn't even exist. No real person on camera, no real person typing. All the messages are written by AI, the photos are AI-generated, and the voice is AI-synthesized. The entire Maya boils down to just four documents on his MacBook. Back in the day, building an AI virtual influencer took anywhere from six months to a year and a half. Now, he's got it running in just 4 weeks. Looking ahead, it might take only a weekend to whip one up. These four files break down like this: · persona.md, spelling out Maya's character, backstory, and likes; · voice.md, locking in her speaking tone and voice style; · flux.md, standardizing her appearance and photo style to ensure all images look like the same person; · brain.md, logging what each subscriber has chatted about and their preferences. Before the AI replies to any fan, it reads through all four files, so the persona never breaks, and it never forgets what the fan has said. Truth be told, the tech stack is so ridiculously simple it's almost absurd. That famous virtual influencer Aitana López from before? Her team took 18 months to pull her together. Now, a Maya-style setup is done and dusted in 4 weeks. This isn't sci-fi—it's something anyone with a computer can replicate step by step. And it's not just OnlyFans; slap this workflow onto Instagram, TikTok, or Twitch, and it'll run just as smoothly. AI has basically driven the cost of creating a virtual person down to zero. At this point, the only real barrier left is whether you've got the taste to decide what this virtual person should even look like..

deletable content in immutable storage

full circle moment 🔄 My first ever hackathon was @ETHGlobal Brussels in July 2024. Now I'm heading back as a mentor for ETHGlobal Tokyo on September 25-27. Excited to see what hackers build from the mentor side 👀 Apply to hack → ethglob.al/27NFXD9I0C

And the showcase page and the projects data are stored and served from Swarm. Gotta prove what you say, ain't it?

We got an important step closer towards unified liquidity between L2s and Ethereum via @etheconomiczone. Here is a @CoWSwap trade settled on L2 while using liquidity from L1. Bridging tokens out and receiving other tokens back all happens atomically! Public testnet soon!

congratulations to the @EthRome hackathon participants and the winners: gitkiv github.com/robdgs/gitkiv gitkiv.vercel.app/ and APIritivo apiritivo.vercel.app/ nearly all submissions use @ethswarm ... ethrome2026.swarm-devrel.bzz…

a dream come true: deletable content in immutable storage. @hdiedrich | @ethswarm Finally, published. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38050…

What if you never had a childhood? What if you never went to school, never met your friends, and never lived through any of the memories you have? What if you—and all your memories—came into existence just a moment ago? This bizarre possibility has a name: A Boltzmann brain.

What if reality works more like a video game than we realize? It's a fascinating thought experiment that leads to some surprising connections with quantum mechanics. 👇 Full video in the comments.

Inspired by @romanyam 's fascinating paper How to Escape From the Simulation, I explore an even stranger possibility: What if the universe itself is the computer — and the only way out is inward? 🎥 New video: How to Escape From the Simulation piped.video/f9SZrMn9qn8

We're happy to welcome @ethswarm as a sponsor for ETHRome 2026! 🇮🇹 Swarm is a decentralised storage and communication layer: your data lives on the network, not on someone's server. Grazie @ethswarm and see you in Rome! 🏛️ Apply here 👇

🏆 ETHRome Prize: PineSign Prove you sent an encrypted file and the recipient downloaded it. Encryption in the browser, Swarm for storage, ENSv2 for the record. Built solo, in 40 hours. Prize: one year of Urbe Hub membership 🐺

ETHRome 2026 begins 🏛️ 40 builders just walked into our own house in Rome. 40 hours of code start now. Grazie @ethswarm @arkivnetwork @AvaxTeam1 @ensdomains 🤝 Good luck hackers ⚔️💫

A useful Swarm stack: Encrypt the data. Upload it. Use ACT to control who gets access. Share it with whoever you choose. Revoke access when you choose. Put it behind a Feed so the content can keep changing without changing its address. Storage is only the first primitive.

Swarm has decentralized data infrastructure. But applications also need "identity": a way for a user to connect, move between dApps, and actually use that infrastructure without every app inventing its own account system. Enter Swarm ID. 🧵 1/7

Building for Road to Devcon with @ethswarm ? Check out this step-by-step video demo showing how to: • Install & launch Swarm Desktop • Redeem gift codes & fund your node • Buy a postage stamp to generate your Batch ID • Pick a problem statement on Loops & code with Loops Agent Harness Don't miss out on the $250 prize pool, get set up in minutes and start building!

From setup to first run, with interviews from the people who made it happen: a collective livecoding experiment where Swarm, @DarkFiSquad and @winprivacy turned decentralised infrastructure into part of the instrument. Watch the making of The Plural Monolith👇

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin