Swarm, the decentralised storage and communication system built on Ethereum, is announcing the mainnet release of its storage incentives programme, a mechanism to reward storage providers, which now incorporates staking.

The storage incentive programme is open to the Swarm community and anyone willing to share spare storage space and an internet connection. Financial rewards, in the form of Swarm’s utility token (BZZ), will be distributed among storage operators in exchange for their participation.

With Swarm, Ethereum’s initial idea of the “world computer” is being upgraded. A new brand of computers, a Web3PC that is private by design and respectful of the users’ right to use and produce content.

The team plans to have a working Web3 PC prototype out in the wild by June 2023.