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 Feb. 18, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests	PeerID
2,826,636	12D3KooWSu3DXTvyjqgPdZ6tfiey8EdHRoAY4RGGj8snshH9G1wY
1,894,669	12D3KooWKfmouBn9LziommL16Xu8fn4vsbuKwHfRJbQYQbwsHiFT
1,893,665	QmcfZP2LuW4jxviTeG8fi28qjnZScACb8PEgHAc17ZEri3
1,892,202	QmcfR3V5YAtHBzxVACWCzXTt26SyEkxdwhGJ6875A8BuWx
1,890,861	QmcfVvzK4tMdFmpJjEKDUoqRgP4W9FnmJoziYX5GXJJ8eZ
1,878,251	12D3KooWALHfQbXTa7uJGpKxomAmTjFqSWbfhRijKrMa2KJsmTgt
1,866,917	12D3KooWHSAvjoDSxvYsexKft6cHLP71yzHERnKGEmmPWwo7KZeW
1,859,396	12D3KooWKFypep24QfRHFjGzD2Yp6JLaQp8f5eCQ4BXH2yxbW4Pv
1,850,690	12D3KooWDLsciaLhofX7hB3vhd23miCqRbpAktoi5oS2G1B2PJzv
1,850,199	Qmcfuo1TM9uUiJp6dTbm915Rf1aTqm3a3dnmCdDQLHgvL5

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during Feb. 18, 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
872	bafkreidbiagf7smlymvdjwtvqwxqm75gxa3dmutukvilcgj2yppibletlm
867	bafkreieulegjrxnk2vbp3eyhosfhgzs4t3ov7uykbkfx2j6gojnnxl4erm
849	bafkreihp4hjyvb3voztz3rrw5ivl2dcofmampqt4xdsdv3su4ja24acqji
844	bafkreidrvjz5wvji4qqyskp24wc7w7p6myvgsktbdpkhqueo4elgi62giu
822	bafkreianvv4uso2ohdbiqf5kp3oxtbso7az7tde5ne3cdpjgyrjmkm6bay
702	bafkreiekhatg4hwy4dtgegdljx63dhcylebvxwv36wjbzqqz2uy5smrnr4
666	bafkreib3bjgx4sn7zyx7jf6fhouvcw6zjj7febokjc7fdp5v63teiutksa
569	bafkreihnuymeve6fsmk3jarrjnj7niisw526ha2zk5jry4wk72ndqostlu
319	bafkreicdkeejh6uo54c2rqghzlqvmgm4njzncuxjisgexb5ri7aild5nje
270	bafkreighgncl5yrfxufo2eg2ff2qzgtf7ztwuz23prgftnfhrgaqvnzkpy

Measurement Tools

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