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Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data.

Is ethersphere/bee beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, ethersphere/bee merged 15 of 24 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 2 days. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Indexed issues
106
Avg merge
2d 11h
Merged PRs (30d)
23
Dominant language
Go
License
BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push
Oct 5, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 6, 2026
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How to contribute to ethersphere/bee

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's BSD-3-Clause license.
  4. Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Storage radius oscillates every wakeup when the reserve is full of out-of-radius chunks, leaking pullsync streams on peers
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ethersphere/bee#5659 ·

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  • Investigate why a deferred chunk can fail IdentityAddress
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    accepted seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

    ethersphere/bee#5648 · 1 comment ·

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  • GET /bzz/<ref>/ can 404 off-node, and the 404 is indistinguishable from a missing index document
    Open
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    seen

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    ethersphere/bee#5625 · 1 comment ·

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  • GET /chunks returns 500 "read chunk failed" where /bytes and /feeds return 404
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    accepted seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ethersphere/bee#5624 ·

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  • A stalled log sink deadlocks peer connectivity — node reports healthy with zero peers and never recovers
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    seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ethersphere/bee#5581 ·

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  • Simplify staking contract migration for node operators
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    • Is something wrong?
    feature seen user-experience

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#5577 · 2 comments ·

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  • retrieval: the overdraft back-off has no metric, so a throttled node looks idle
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    seen

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ethersphere/bee#5561 · 1 comment ·

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  • Postage: silent bucket rollover on mutable batches overwrites previously stamped chunks — make reuse explicit
    May be free again Open
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5538 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Pricing protocol should not gate connections from bootnode-mode peers
    May be free again Open
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5496 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Desync between redistribution game phase tracked by node and on-chain (need to investigate)
    May be free again Open
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5485 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Bee node stuck unhealthy due to storage radius mismatch (10 vs neighborhood 9), redistribution never resumes
    May be free again Open
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    accepted seen

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#5428 · 2 comments ·

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  • notifyrefreshmentsent error
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    on hold

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#5402 · 1 comment ·

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  • Research Review: Pushsync Silent Chunk Loss
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    accepted seen

    ethersphere/bee#5400 · 15 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • storageRadius decrease logic too restrictive on active networks
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    seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#5396 · 2 comments ·

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  • Auto-detect blockchain block time from RPC endpoint
    May be free again Open
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5386 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Aggressive peer connection burst at startup (can look like port scanning)
    May be free again Open
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5380 · 1 assignee ·

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  • DCUtR (Direct Connection Upgrade through Relay) for non-reachable NAT-ed peers
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    feature seen

    ethersphere/bee#5355 · 2 assignees ·

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  • Support external Ethereum keyfile for swarm identity
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    feature seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#5351 ·

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  • Pullsync seems to hold lock on chunkstore
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    seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    ethersphere/bee#5335 · 3 comments ·

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  • lastSelectedRound in /redistributionstate API is misleading for unstaked nodes
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    • Is something wrong?
    accepted needs-discussion seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ethersphere/bee#5333 · 1 comment ·

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  • Expose storage price calculations and meaningful stamp purchase errors
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    seen

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    ethersphere/bee#5301 · 1 comment ·

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  • Bee seems to return index 0 for sequential feeds
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    seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    ethersphere/bee#5251 · 1 comment ·

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  • Suggest to switch bee config files with more readable versions
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5219 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·

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  • Bug: Migration step 06 fails on incomplete stamp metadata, causing total data loss
    May be free again Open
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    ethersphere/bee#5216 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • SOC encryption support
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    ethersphere/bee#5203 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Bytes upload with pre-defined key
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    • Is something wrong?

    ethersphere/bee#5202 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • tinygo support
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#5182 ·

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  • Move all full-node logic under a build tag
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#5181 ·

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  • Use a build tag to toggle Prometheus/metrics
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#5179 ·

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  • Stuck pending transaction - logs indicate cancellation, but it seems successful
    May be free again Open
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5123 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Make metrics available while node is adapting to reserve-capacity-doubling change
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    seen

    ethersphere/bee#5115 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Tagging does not work on direct BZZ upload
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#5096 · 5 comments ·

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  • WebAssembly support
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ethersphere/bee#5085 ·

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  • Store PSS messages when there is no subscriber
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    needs-discussion seen

    ethersphere/bee#5061 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • Bee option for Node Spinup: Funding private key
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    on hold

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#5030 · 1 comment ·

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  • Revamp Feed Endpoint parameters
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    seen

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#5028 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Compact postage batch usage with chunks optimization
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ethersphere/bee#5009 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Improve Stamp Management By Abstracting Amount and Depth and Adding Auto-Dilution / Top-up
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#4992 · 8 comments · 3 reactions ·

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  • Auto-Neighborhood Balancing Feature
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#4991 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • UPnP port mapping should be regularly attempted, not only at startup
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    seen

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#4975 ·

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  • Add Automated OpenAPI Specification Tooling
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    ethersphere/bee#4974 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add chunk bulk upload API
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    feature

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#4872 ·

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  • Can't pin large files uploaded with chunks
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    ethersphere/bee#4864 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Prevent users from staking on machines that cannot calculate proofs in time
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#4849 · 5 comments ·

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  • Refactor epoch based feeds
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#4830 ·

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  • ENS resolution
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#4822 ·

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  • Unify default location for config files for different startup methods
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ethersphere/bee#4813 ·

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  • stewardship get is super slow
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    ethersphere/bee#4800 ·

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  • Etag makes the browser cache CORS headers?!
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ethersphere/bee#4769 ·

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  • responsible neighborhood splitting
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ethersphere/bee#4758 ·

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