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

Requests	PeerID
4,810,482	12D3KooWFbacBMyxDE4aQ44ATrMEaRRg5n4YmwhVuJE1M4VciJNM
3,237,603	12D3KooWCL2pXbQVaVnJntNZFNvz58PdY9gXo2R6NJajnDyhzxc4
2,526,677	12D3KooWL512C9u82p7ts7s6W9QWFJxSZKtwV82My8TttkYhZevk
2,520,628	12D3KooWBoZxBqGcWK87MF64eFSR4PXrTRZwriPLREPAsL3cW81b
2,519,320	12D3KooWSMkpWgSY3YPJHzkNPYKn6QjqmpRqDvqfGSexoJhTRyXp
2,515,245	Qmcfr2FC7pFzJbTSDfYaSy1J8Uuy8ccGLeLyqJCKJvTHMi
2,514,021	12D3KooWSbayyziJ1VfWBrcxrTitvqH1JevmkhVWqyNY8eZYq2RC
2,513,547	12D3KooWHA99h3y3N7HmkNaHWoXUL8H4kvzgkFhT6UDvwkvXJVPn
2,504,921	QmcfZP2LuW4jxviTeG8fi28qjnZScACb8PEgHAc17ZEri3
2,503,367	12D3KooWSEsbBsMonMUSKcZvY3qzAPFsSKxuFCDS32kzuPhYSP4h

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during May 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
367	bafkreidjoijvkh4cnrw7tmpe62f2c6mekidr2whsfjmz4qqj7ly3tux6yi
349	bafkreigfg4gto6buoi2uhndgnknxoxsnhz2lwrmddpo2ymaltozcckbf2e
349	bafybeidaudte4hhut3mnarhfkdnltlh2ij5qqw26yvusfy7gbbp7h2vv3y
348	bafkreic4ppnxsfncpju6dubb5i3gjplmr46lgarhlnvmfku4jv2qrxhvqi
348	bafybeiayhsqf3pk6blcgmd4zzjwh3galnikl4zi3q75rzdbpsmoaymo2ey
347	bafybeigsrgp3pmd5bvleh6x3equdcqfgnv7dyy7q7ee4gzjeznao2aethm
346	bafkreibpolviymn2t7zo2z3zwnsd6koceexkqvup6qiirk6jluxb4ctjka
346	bafybeigfjctvbgdr5ey67cn6cbzk7yhi5lansft72y5erpzdn37agya6kq
335	bafkreidev4su3ezjcf6h3ye7zra2gc5533odmaka6rypq33odjkijagyhe
334	bafybeig3lucwuaj43efsdfhzxezwksdjf22imnkylyt2c5vhvjizgdsq24

Measurement Tools

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