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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

Daily Unique CIDs

Shows the number of CID records that our Bitswap Sniffer stored per day. The records come from Bitswap messages (want, have, dont-have and block) and from Amino DHT provider requests (add and get provider records). The count does not remove repeated CIDs, so the same CID can count more than once.

Data is provided as is, without warranty. Scraping and automated bulk extraction are not permitted. See our Terms of Use.

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

Bitswap WANT CID Requests

Bitswap WANT CID Requests

Shows how many CIDs a Bitswap WANT message carries, from the WANT messages that our Bitswap Sniffer recorded. For each peer and timestamp, we count the CIDs in the WANT messages (roughly the CIDs in one message). Each line is a statistic of these counts over all peers in a 4-hour window: AVG is the mean, and P10 to P90 are percentiles (P50 is the median).

Data is provided as is, without warranty. Scraping and automated bulk extraction are not permitted. See our Terms of Use.

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

Peer Activity

Top Chatty Peers during Nov. 9, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests PeerID
16,045,235 12D3KooWNV1fmCMU2ZUaADFe76Sqs8KNyqFZ786bi2jLcfLKsRAn
5,588,310 12D3KooWAJJJwXsB5b68cbq69KpXiKqQAgTKssg76heHkg6mo2qB
3,017,837 12D3KooWKXzRnj8WT55fyyjmQfiqnT97kT2Dn72cNv5STBLzBbEw
2,763,129 QmcfZP2LuW4jxviTeG8fi28qjnZScACb8PEgHAc17ZEri3
2,710,170 QmcfJeB3Js1FG7T8YaZATEiaHqNKVdQfybYYkbT1knUswx
2,678,540 Qmcfuo1TM9uUiJp6dTbm915Rf1aTqm3a3dnmCdDQLHgvL5
2,600,481 QmcfgsJsMtx6qJb74akCw1M24X1zFwgGo11h1cuhwQjtJP
2,568,503 QmcfZD3VKrUxyP9BbyUnZDpbqDnT7cQ4WjPP8TRLXaoE7G
2,475,734 QmcfV2sg9zaq7UUHVCGuSvT2M2rnLBAPsiE79vVyK3Cuev
2,451,951 QmcfR3V5YAtHBzxVACWCzXTt26SyEkxdwhGJ6875A8BuWx

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during Nov. 9, 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
609 bafkreiaayimirg76mn3t65a36pmxe3h6cnk4xm7nd667ixfa6b3wbjba4y
608 bafkreighi4pzzuwfbl6zhn5hukkuyvod5c2ktygpbdienzxromep2pnauq
607 bafkreib5vp2adr4yxrjkbfdvhqycmdq3hnzrsevr7elvnv5todadcq67bq
605 bafkreif5sibnopw63wkc2n5mhtekhx2mtoazevjuevtl4fpobigyou5htm
603 bafkreiad6p3frpjatswtal56qoqq2zn3nu55jij2cwbhtu3fzgnjxh5vue
602 bafkreie4oysiu5bxoxhlszizul62yajz5lwal2o3yhgjzzxju5x3psq6cq
585 bafkreidrwxgx77xze77qu3k56qcck746mnpk4w7uejjfd5rjaeedypvy4e
583 bafkreidysxbgzd5opstglsyvrb4lnz2zwlpx6wf5mgr3jgnqnrefymru54
548 bafkreigiylfoaw7nztzz5omhgudvjahvqjzlxdnfs54ipgovnpffwus77q
544 bafkreicm4522d4if2rmrds26kefg2t2v43vzy5m3kkzqfdchnr7uv72jtm

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