Friends developing DeFi have recently been complaining: "I want to create a 'prediction contract based on real event results', but after looking for 3 oracles, either they can only provide price data, or they require all event data sources to be fully open. Not to mention the fear of being attacked, user privacy is also impossible to protect."
This is not an isolated case. In today's rapid expansion of Web3, different roles are stuck on the hurdle of 'trustworthy': DeFi needs diverse data but fears single points of failure, enterprises want to put data on the chain but worry about privacy leaks, and ordinary users come across industry news but can't distinguish between truth and falsehood. The emergence of Swarm Network (@GetSwarmed) (searchable on X) just complements this 'trustworthy puzzle'.
First, let's look at the pain points in the DeFi field. Traditional oracles mostly focus on 'price feeds.' When it comes to unstructured data like 'event results' or 'news events,' they are either powerless or rely on a few data sources. Last year, a certain prediction protocol suffered from a 'single event data source being tampered with,' leading to contract misjudgment and user losses exceeding one million. But Swarm's solution is completely different: it does not use 'centralized data sources,' but instead relies on an AI agent cluster to gather evidence across the network: for example, to verify the result of a football match, the retrieval agents will simultaneously scrape official event websites, referee reports, mainstream sports media, and even post-match player interviews; inference agents will cross-check timelines and eliminate contradictory information; finally, results are generated using reputation-weighted consensus, and the entire evidence chain exists on the Sui chain. Even if a certain agent makes a mistake, it will not affect the final conclusion. Currently, three DeFi prediction projects have integrated with Swarm, with the data anomaly rate directly reduced to below 0.3%.
Next, let’s look at the challenges of enterprises going on-chain. A leader of a supply chain finance company once said, 'We want to put the revenue data of our suppliers on-chain to trigger loan contracts, but this data is a commercial secret and absolutely cannot be made public.' This is precisely the Achilles' heel of traditional oracles: to make smart contracts trust the data, the raw data must be put on-chain, and privacy and credibility can only be chosen one. But Swarm has broken the deadlock with zero-knowledge proofs (ZK): companies only need to upload a ZK proof that 'the data meets loan conditions' without exposing specific revenue figures, and smart contracts can verify its validity. It has currently partnered with Plume Network to verify property data for real estate tokenization projects, ensuring the authenticity of ownership while not leaking the owner's private information. This type of enterprise-level collaboration has already landed in seven projects, covering supply chain, healthcare, and finance.
For ordinary users, the value of Swarm is more direct. When scrolling through X and seeing a tweet that 'a certain project is cooperating with a leading exchange,' there’s no need to rely on 'checking if KOLs have retweeted' or 'checking if the official website has made an announcement' to guess the truth. Just reply 'verify' in the comments section to @Rollup_News (searchable on X), and within minutes, you can receive results with an on-chain hash: AI agents will check exchange announcements, project Discord chat records, and even original media interview texts, and will label 'credibility scores' and key evidence. As of now, Rollup News has processed over 3 million pieces of social content verification, helping users avoid 12 major 'fake good news' scams.
Many people will ask, what distinguishes Swarm from other 'Swarm' projects? In fact, the positioning is completely different: Ethereum Swarm is a 'decentralized hard drive,' solving storage issues; Swarm Markets is an 'RWA trading platform,' addressing asset circulation problems; while Swarm Network is a 'privacy-preserving truth oracle,' resolving the issue of 'data being credible and private.' It does not compete with other projects but acts as an 'infrastructure filler' for the Web3 ecosystem.
From the perspective of ecosystem progress, Swarm is also not a 'pie-in-the-sky' project: at the beginning of 2025, it raised $3 million in seed funding, led by Y2Z Ventures, which has invested in Mask Network, with the Sui Foundation also participating; it has raised a total of $13 million, of which $10 million comes from the sale of 'agent licenses,' indicating that the market is willing to pay for its technology; partners include Oasis Protocol (leader in privacy public chains) and Mira (AI auditing platform), capable of providing end-to-end services from data fetching to privacy protection; the X platform has 283,000 blue V fans, and every time it posts technical progress, there are thousands of interactions. The community also has developers voluntarily creating tutorials to teach newcomers how to use its API.
$TRUTH has been launched on Binance, and in 2026 it will also introduce cross-chain functionality, allowing projects on Ethereum and Solana to use its services. In fact, Web3 does not lack 'new protocols' and 'new tokens'; what is lacking is 'hard solutions' that can solve real pain points. If you are a developer, a business leader, or just a user trying to find 'credible signals' in a chaotic information environment, you might want to pay attention to their X account @GetSwarmed. It may not be the most 'popular' project, but it is one of the few that can truly complete the 'key puzzle' of a credible Web3 ecosystem.
