March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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Swarm
Swarm has been developed as a distributed file storage platform. It is a decentralized, distributed, and peer-to-peer storage network. Files in this network are addressed by the hash of their content. This is in contrast to the traditional centralized services, where storage is available at a central location only. This is developed as a native base layer service for the Ethereum Web 3 stack. Swarm is integrated with DEVp2p, which is the multiprotocol network layer of Ethereum. Swarm is envisaged to provide a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)-resistant and fault-tolerant distributed storage layer for Ethereum Web 3.0. Similar to shh in Whisper, Swarm has a protocol called bzz which is used by each Swarm node to perform various Swarm ...