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 July 30, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests	PeerID
2,682,274	12D3KooWEqYHEeZSHECSUTZR31q2t73ig8ZaPt2cPzSHtiRN3B2H
2,149,036	12D3KooWLkhm5u2mtnZeq6SF9BU1EfY6ZZSRGwLkGSTJgqYeXhwS
2,095,806	12D3KooWT27APcP7qYe1iPoYgxixf7EYzpwd3yp9fkHcCJ4uJKDT
2,052,474	12D3KooWFMwjjqXZgaq7npVcUoiq58BnW1aBxNL1L2S5HWfhq4Hr
2,035,349	12D3KooWF8M6C8ZoGGkKn4uUuEciNHNgdJ8PXs6DzWysbBE2ENPQ
2,033,980	QmcfR3V5YAtHBzxVACWCzXTt26SyEkxdwhGJ6875A8BuWx
2,013,688	Qmcfuo1TM9uUiJp6dTbm915Rf1aTqm3a3dnmCdDQLHgvL5
2,004,407	12D3KooWQsUWZ3Ss8mzEBtKVvsumhWadU62VvKWtt2X1w82c9Xh2
2,003,357	12D3KooWPjY39fTVjVEXWvp1z6h8BP5ZmWZHQ2TknX5caQXRW3C9
1,996,072	QmcfV2sg9zaq7UUHVCGuSvT2M2rnLBAPsiE79vVyK3Cuev

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during July 30, 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
364	bafybeihe5z5npvip2hx5xehbm2nejuhvmc6zi6ykz3xkzlavrosumxtyli
348	bafybeib7d5qt66e5pqxd2kimz3linenucx22qb5d3jj7j3dvj652ep6rbi
339	bafkreihrjlmumwxdsq36x5w4cjg6guoe6zmdvvnge2k5g7wgcs7jcfuhxa
309	bafybeiazplu2lffbkpbv6ivfzvbjqkkngry2w73vssf2yw7ve6vayoqj7y
303	bafybeieme4fm65tfhovm24jffif3gxcpfnbspllqfeqyxlvgdfbiuv5o6m
302	bafybeia6ysuqucegkiuv6bx2426dprubogtlmy6hmt5aduu2yrhbxamdcq
296	bafybeia3stc7dx6fzybkumkmqfqcbs45t6bgnubag5kpacsxokarp3zvli
296	bafybeiaw3t4gumf4nzeg2cv74tes7nmuqwsz5z4zcp43mimk6ksu5eyhc4
294	bafybeiejkiicruyplpryvi6apvoobjpmhfpiaap2o2x7wnwk7aqoe3zmrq
291	bafybeicktm2ew7fhohvk5fiwmcptj7oknbxdhpooivdglttpneh55r45hu

Measurement Tools

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