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 31, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests	PeerID
3,333,238	12D3KooWQQA5DzoNzzzexQbErSU5Heehix2K1VFizN3QyMnAZVYW
2,612,361	12D3KooWJYkn2VN6i8HqEGiR4YyepHrASZWgZ7WftZgHuH1GNHTV
2,575,992	QmcfZP2LuW4jxviTeG8fi28qjnZScACb8PEgHAc17ZEri3
2,571,192	QmcfZD3VKrUxyP9BbyUnZDpbqDnT7cQ4WjPP8TRLXaoE7G
2,553,763	QmcfJeB3Js1FG7T8YaZATEiaHqNKVdQfybYYkbT1knUswx
2,534,423	12D3KooWH5PoV3bx6Q55m5imUE6DbAhyNpKJfm5zKh2t4YdT5cXr
2,512,361	12D3KooWL4929XTUxZt8aAXigP18Hwb565TGQLcxcSHd341xP68y
2,504,246	QmcfR3V5YAtHBzxVACWCzXTt26SyEkxdwhGJ6875A8BuWx
2,497,522	12D3KooWFAJNsdvy82jfb3PrGF9AsrdQU3rXxEtapEd4fmKx44bD
2,489,303	12D3KooWKUo6qmndSSN2NWazV5kTjdSdsoj5Kg4td1ZQ9nZCPVEf

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during March 31, 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
910	QmYiFk3U6QD3YCcDZLW61VhWsxLvWcJGbr1JQdjjBNgusZ
907	QmUgVb13VpA2sWunUm9JY7akQcp58BsyV1tfks3RuCQjFq
894	QmUEY9vJ7FA8Yj7ahUNzA1J4b5YvxSuPM4Kf6yJPFuosGo
765	bafkreiei2u6ca7rxvnrtzvblityy3jqehjenkzh4ybgg6kjnquxxmmcgmy
725	bafkreie5qan3rbo2fnmvf3hbbkcw2onbdu6fhfy5dwonofaitd5yxr2xma
622	QmbrrKcpQQtETa2YPiLz76JtgjJWEmUTuuFgLa655pUHx9
434	baejbeigi4r5745jvzxxasjlppgyqrdxat656famhebm22ixocmviuy4f4y
170	bafkreigmdpdmagzkt7bvh2kl3daafmgbk3smmxyuf76a4wwdtefz23c3ky
152	bafkreib2vixoulaazgv3rv76fzyqbzv5kj25wn5hxej3ujkcpdscarujx4
100	bafkreiaiaqomd2dot7ka524pkh7okunorreng23qqv4isdstzbcai6vn6u

Measurement Tools

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