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 April 20, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests	PeerID
3,227,744	12D3KooWQQA5DzoNzzzexQbErSU5Heehix2K1VFizN3QyMnAZVYW
1,787,995	QmcfZD3VKrUxyP9BbyUnZDpbqDnT7cQ4WjPP8TRLXaoE7G
1,767,467	12D3KooWGXyTxopZKxW1V96WsYkZWnLW7b7PSZH5J5vvGPW7zrTm
1,732,596	Qmcfuo1TM9uUiJp6dTbm915Rf1aTqm3a3dnmCdDQLHgvL5
1,701,572	12D3KooWDcKGPfkp4gsE4d9fcem3SWoU3N6cqeaUCVVrBZKcwS7b
1,691,654	QmcfVvzK4tMdFmpJjEKDUoqRgP4W9FnmJoziYX5GXJJ8eZ
1,679,590	QmcfgsJsMtx6qJb74akCw1M24X1zFwgGo11h1cuhwQjtJP
1,665,690	QmcfV2sg9zaq7UUHVCGuSvT2M2rnLBAPsiE79vVyK3Cuev
1,656,337	QmcfZP2LuW4jxviTeG8fi28qjnZScACb8PEgHAc17ZEri3
1,655,726	Qmcfr2FC7pFzJbTSDfYaSy1J8Uuy8ccGLeLyqJCKJvTHMi

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during April 20, 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
823	bafkreihc7efnl2prri6j6krcopelxms3xsh7undpsjqbfsasm7ikiyha4i
587	bafkreiap222f3lm2b4vuupsnblruecjrtm7u4kzoggozrqd6s4lxuxtvm4
577	bafkreibhut3fanngfxwnkuv7n5ksnddfgvi3j3dk6hv2kwx4ajqtvavaim
568	bafkreidknqox6jzlx2fjsrd7b3fy2o47uf3j4457emyqpikfpnu6cn4orm
566	bafkreicieezyhzy7fyukldroq5anfzfnzpngtn46ly5zsqks2nqqjlfj7q
562	bafkreibpnmelx5jtpqj3mg3eaqhwi3pak2yekrc75wp3nyvcta25gr2itm
561	bafkreihq2dpphodx32amlqgeuhtk63gkjlt6xos4vj6axxn7ylgtdpoqly
551	bafkreidjonitvb7phpbh7fi5qgxwbwts4tl5pnmo7g6l3l4po6qa4z5iaa
545	bafkreifzqnatmxyzxvu73hpxugf3wyc4r466k75owgjec6izksafohkzhq
391	bafkreiesbec2jincdxzvsewyn5cfmkeq6zonds22cojhfyggfadlgw5njm

Measurement Tools

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