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 6, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests	PeerID
2,196,547	12D3KooWGtYkBAaqJMJEmywMxaCiNP7LCEFUAFiLEBASe232c2VH
1,706,238	QmcfZP2LuW4jxviTeG8fi28qjnZScACb8PEgHAc17ZEri3
1,676,851	Qmcfr2FC7pFzJbTSDfYaSy1J8Uuy8ccGLeLyqJCKJvTHMi
1,620,597	QmcFmLd5ySfk2WZuJ1mfSWLDjdmHZq7rSAua4GoeSQfs1z
1,616,853	QmcfVvzK4tMdFmpJjEKDUoqRgP4W9FnmJoziYX5GXJJ8eZ
1,604,447	QmcfR3V5YAtHBzxVACWCzXTt26SyEkxdwhGJ6875A8BuWx
1,597,938	QmcFf2FH3CEgTNHeMRGhN7HNHU1EXAxoEk6EFuSyXCsvRE
1,571,345	12D3KooWR3JBSxCsqsSBe9CntEjHtwBsjH5q3f9s4uJEMi7ikNCu
1,556,222	Qmcfuo1TM9uUiJp6dTbm915Rf1aTqm3a3dnmCdDQLHgvL5
1,528,321	12D3KooWN524wVitW7yTDjuHqmZj8MfriFYBfu2PWamCKiLeFkLo

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during March 6, 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
1,195	bafkreiad43efvjxejoevczu6lwx5jk673waivtyfutsoauqa6irvuvnh7e
952	bafkreicxmgqx6p3itfedgw53bt5aa2svk2fimgcvyxvwng7o55uu7vvxxu
949	bafkreia7pb7gzwsx6l7u3viywcjzwqtwkrx43q3inzyc4mjrwdwyqcpzsq
935	bafkreihwfvpzsernwhby6hudzhnkkb2xcdsdln66ifkpvqsoofr6knpreq
932	bafkreidu3gw3mdwcybwgqikzhbslr7v3u2wfwj2t3xrcs7pou6h7h5jj44
905	bafkreidl3n77rck2xlynxotngz7bsvucchyah2qj6f2hjlngyozk2avcx4
903	bafkreic2huxev6hpfbdrlelnkyqvn2d76x2vojezoxynk4wwcau5tqnspq
534	QmYiFk3U6QD3YCcDZLW61VhWsxLvWcJGbr1JQdjjBNgusZ
525	QmUgVb13VpA2sWunUm9JY7akQcp58BsyV1tfks3RuCQjFq
522	QmUEY9vJ7FA8Yj7ahUNzA1J4b5YvxSuPM4Kf6yJPFuosGo

Measurement Tools

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