Hive
InterPlanetary Swarm Hive
Keep your IPFS workflow. Zero pinning headaches.
MetaProvide explaining Hive (IPSH) during Swarm Solstice Community Call
The Problem: The "Decentralization Paradox"
Today, millions of developers and projects use the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) because they want their data to be decentralized and permanent. However, there is a major contradiction at the heart of the modern decentralized web:
Developers want decentralized storage, but they are forced to buy centralized reliability.
Because standard IPFS has no built-in way to reward people for keeping data online, files often disappear unless a user pays a centralized company (e.g. Pinata or 4everland) to "pin" the data. These companies act as "toll bridges" to the decentralized web—if they change their prices, face an outage, or change their terms, your data, and all the apps that rely on it, can vanish instantly.
The Solution: Hive
Hive bridges existing IPFS workflows to a more resilient decentralized stack. Teams keep familiar tools and addresses, while storage and discovery move into a peer-first architecture designed for availability and censorship resistance.
Data Resilience
With decentralized discovery and peer-to-peer propagation, your content remains reachable even when individual providers fail, throttle, or go offline.
Meets Developers Where They Are
No need to learn new code or complex crypto-concepts. Use the IPFS tools and addresses you already know.
High-Performance Retrieval
Hive combines local caching, peer-first lookups, and optimized fallback paths so developers get practical speed without sacrificing decentralization goals.
Free for Experimentation. Paid for Production.
Hive lowers adoption friction with a clear progression: experiment at no cost, then move to paid production tiers when you need stronger guarantees and gateway fallback.
Free Tier
Experimentation & Early Validation
Test, prototype, and share with defined usage thresholds. Free tier retrieval is peer-first, making it ideal for low-friction development and early pilots.
Production Tier
Operational Reliability
Upgrade for production-grade persistence, SLA-oriented operations, and gateway fallback where needed. Pay with credit card or crypto based on your procurement model.
Why HIVE Wins
No Vendor Lock-in
Anyone can run a Hive node—the network is truly owned by its users. Or let us run it while having no access to customer data. Hive is open-source; no need to take our word for it.
Cost-Effective Scaling
Scale storage and traffic with predictable economics, reducing dependence on single-vendor cloud cost curves as usage grows.
Censorship Resistance
Hive protects against centralized outages and censorship attacks that currently threaten over half of the content on the decentralized web.
Flexible Payment Options
Support both crypto-native and traditional procurement flows with crypto or credit card payments.
Built for Developer Outcomes
Hive helps teams ship decentralized storage without a migration rewrite. Keep IPFS-compatible workflows, reduce pinning dependency, and evolve into resilient production infrastructure on your terms.
Build now with familiar tools. Scale later with decentralized reliability.
Built with IPFS, Swarm, and Pears
Workflow
IPFS
Discovery & Permanence
Swarm
Delivery
PearsHow Hive combines IPFS, Swarm, and Pears
IPFS Interface
Keep existing routes and developer tooling.
Swarm Discovery & Permanence
Find providers through decentralized metadata mapping and permanently store data on Swarm.
Pears Delivery
Retrieve and propagate content/chunks peer-to-peer.
Outcome: IPFS-compatible workflows with decentralized discovery and peer delivery.
Get In Touch
Ready to bridge from IPFS to Swarm? Let's talk.
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