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 May 10, 2026. The number of requests shown were made from the corresponding PeerID, during the 24hr window indicated.

Requests	PeerID
4,268,057	12D3KooWAh6qr6ouUgTDtirkPB4PtZ5Ur4Mmttg2aXJAPar1L2Ru
3,077,355	QmcFmLd5ySfk2WZuJ1mfSWLDjdmHZq7rSAua4GoeSQfs1z
3,047,786	QmcfFmzSDVbwexQ9Au2pt5YEXHK5xajwgaU6PpkbLWerMa
3,022,393	QmcFf2FH3CEgTNHeMRGhN7HNHU1EXAxoEk6EFuSyXCsvRE
2,841,292	12D3KooWGtAxa9LG8Ydxt23vrziDYZ4n3orw27xVuVqA6DPGmbns
2,810,543	QmcfJeB3Js1FG7T8YaZATEiaHqNKVdQfybYYkbT1knUswx
2,777,597	12D3KooWHX27TBZLPynyKF14uc79qb41rN3dkqt222V7J9W1mSeR
2,774,138	12D3KooWCRLfHBpTrFaS8mVX7rp5myATMGcH9Jr5cSkq2ajkWvUu
2,770,063	QmcfR3V5YAtHBzxVACWCzXTt26SyEkxdwhGJ6875A8BuWx
2,753,611	Qmcfr2FC7pFzJbTSDfYaSy1J8Uuy8ccGLeLyqJCKJvTHMi

CID Popularity

Most popular CIDs observed during May 10, 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
433	bafkreicfauik7zhy76alrchfnk5nfv7pibxmxn6h5dp6fo5qplwmw5oaau
329	bafybeifjrsprnwh5tsvq6vigcy5exi45mi6hurply572562xa3ia2uok6i
316	bafybeigwaxnpyaswqhj5wtifgqvhqnwurrfu3dtuulcx6qrwdr5zd7y3z4
312	bafybeidakgs2kww3ij2zaokzpkpxd3gj64ccyvd7jf65psyvhjvdhtrgwy
310	bafybeiei4hhuoohp3tfeckyuatxtprnzn6pohkmutmyyqvh3jcfsy52by4
310	bafybeiaqmpnwhtyyk7mjbn7vniynil7oe4dlwskeso6ld3spjpr3soqn3u
308	bafybeibcptrz7s3mhrbsjrntseiab3rcjxaiba4b2djri4wtjppz4ppsni
293	bafkreiccgrbrxy44yzcunxe6lnjd6hocma7txth6bwb4ozi3upxg2qlste
291	bafybeic5xneihwujisab65jlkcuvghag5aqqqvbq2cthj73ra74nddl7re
227	QmXXdWWZvaFKfzDHAJVinr2UtgyDzwY2LHCqSaTdsWTMVL

Measurement Tools

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