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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 Oct. 19, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests PeerID
16,116,281 12D3KooWNV1fmCMU2ZUaADFe76Sqs8KNyqFZ786bi2jLcfLKsRAn
14,469,934 12D3KooWF768ppkGQWiffZ6DQHNmNTwoFMnZzXkorAxEWWUeDKEc
5,502,090 12D3KooWQQA5DzoNzzzexQbErSU5Heehix2K1VFizN3QyMnAZVYW
4,185,472 12D3KooWAJJJwXsB5b68cbq69KpXiKqQAgTKssg76heHkg6mo2qB
3,863,021 12D3KooWD6Ez2ZENdhrWRhagx7EvzVLg62GgivDsDfjQod7n6aAq
3,557,066 12D3KooWKXzRnj8WT55fyyjmQfiqnT97kT2Dn72cNv5STBLzBbEw
2,838,992 12D3KooWSxNuefKxYjTH9xBH2Nt6yVh9LLoaxoMf3KZwDnXmXKdB
2,512,368 QmcFmLd5ySfk2WZuJ1mfSWLDjdmHZq7rSAua4GoeSQfs1z
2,336,838 12D3KooWFyDX1fapRZxX3f9ABrrdRtAg9LxJKLnRXfWyqcehxaBB
2,319,938 QmcfJeB3Js1FG7T8YaZATEiaHqNKVdQfybYYkbT1knUswx

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during Oct. 19, 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
746 bafkreihokuwhkguqwq37h2fhcs6z62srwgrj2wfxzvmexgl4hv6wea66yy
672 bafkreig6hjavnvxlgw62hfmlo6vslcq2w4szeaubbi42l5rr7uvtab5sta
665 bafkreifuizolx2dd2h4jecaiqfyrgedpyrgnzedpefgz22eik44ihruvbm
661 bafkreifuvluqxfhhyvsr3pzweghgymm64uky2yan2cztvnylyfmamgyrna
660 bafkreidrzvwxd6azgxnpqzscyf7o4r3swj755nuhrrpnnjpethvlpwibga
652 bafkreiaoplxdwsv7f4ybshysvrabzcenhucwq6ag5an43muw4buerqtksi
650 bafkreigcrzgx6hfnfwouqewzc4om7na6wcrvoxcndlu3bahibwnc6w7sei
600 bafkreibzlt76t5v3zd47kasbd3t3h26f3zv6r5zzyhn6b6dfe6tymlw6le
600 bafkreifqjydbb6g2tx5ca4chnknhxntzwazhh2wu25z6dhacgjrsleofae
592 bafkreiaxl5tc67mhv227vkgq2piew27vkvuximvznbwigtlfssygot2oee

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