IPFS

Bitswap

We are monitoring Bitswap traffic through custom tooling and are producing statistics for the traffic flowing through the IPFS network.

This section presents insightful, high-level metrics regarding the traffic in the IPFS network, as observed through Bitswap messages.

Traffic Volume

Daily Unique CIDs

Aggregation of the total number of unique CIDs traced from Bitswap and the Amino DHT

Bitswap WANT CID Requests

Bitswap WANT CID Requests

The plot shows the number of WANT requests for CIDs that our node has received. Results are aggregated in 4hr windows.

Aggregation of the number of WANT requests to a single Bitswap node

Peer Activity

Top Chatty Peers during March 11, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests	PeerID
3,483,893	QmWmJfJKfJmKtRqsTnygmWgJfsmHnXo4p3Uc1Atf8N5iQ5
2,367,627	12D3KooWSu3DXTvyjqgPdZ6tfiey8EdHRoAY4RGGj8snshH9G1wY
1,786,103	Qmcfuo1TM9uUiJp6dTbm915Rf1aTqm3a3dnmCdDQLHgvL5
1,763,160	12D3KooWN524wVitW7yTDjuHqmZj8MfriFYBfu2PWamCKiLeFkLo
1,744,468	Qmcfr2FC7pFzJbTSDfYaSy1J8Uuy8ccGLeLyqJCKJvTHMi
1,741,162	QmcfJeB3Js1FG7T8YaZATEiaHqNKVdQfybYYkbT1knUswx
1,724,074	QmcfZD3VKrUxyP9BbyUnZDpbqDnT7cQ4WjPP8TRLXaoE7G
1,707,721	QmcFmLd5ySfk2WZuJ1mfSWLDjdmHZq7rSAua4GoeSQfs1z
1,702,750	QmcfR3V5YAtHBzxVACWCzXTt26SyEkxdwhGJ6875A8BuWx
1,697,354	QmcfVvzK4tMdFmpJjEKDUoqRgP4W9FnmJoziYX5GXJJ8eZ

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during March 11, 2026. Each CID shown on the right column of the table was requested by the number of Unique Peers on the left column, during the 24hr period indicated.

Unique Peers	CID
945	bafkreiad43efvjxejoevczu6lwx5jk673waivtyfutsoauqa6irvuvnh7e
862	bafkreicxmgqx6p3itfedgw53bt5aa2svk2fimgcvyxvwng7o55uu7vvxxu
856	QmYiFk3U6QD3YCcDZLW61VhWsxLvWcJGbr1JQdjjBNgusZ
855	bafkreia7pb7gzwsx6l7u3viywcjzwqtwkrx43q3inzyc4mjrwdwyqcpzsq
847	bafkreidu3gw3mdwcybwgqikzhbslr7v3u2wfwj2t3xrcs7pou6h7h5jj44
843	bafkreidl3n77rck2xlynxotngz7bsvucchyah2qj6f2hjlngyozk2avcx4
838	bafkreihwfvpzsernwhby6hudzhnkkb2xcdsdln66ifkpvqsoofr6knpreq
828	bafkreic2huxev6hpfbdrlelnkyqvn2d76x2vojezoxynk4wwcau5tqnspq
827	QmUgVb13VpA2sWunUm9JY7akQcp58BsyV1tfks3RuCQjFq
819	QmUEY9vJ7FA8Yj7ahUNzA1J4b5YvxSuPM4Kf6yJPFuosGo

Measurement Tools

Our network monitoring employs advanced crawling and probing tools and techniques to gather comprehensive data about network health, topology, and performance