The Swarm team has released version 0.3 of their Ethereum Swarm client, marking the third proof-of-concept release now merged into the official go-ethereum repository. This POC3 release has been deployed to the public testnet, representing continued development progress for Ethereum's decentralized storage solution.
Swarm has been integrated into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature with the geth 1.5 'let there bee light' release. The current version is POC 0.2 RC5 'embrace your daemons', representing a refactored and cleaner codebase for the decentralized storage platform.
December saw continued development progress across the Ethereum ecosystem, with ongoing research into proof of stake and sharding following the Singapore workshop. The light client, Whisper, and Swarm protocols advanced while discussions on protocol economics and community governance continued.
