**With the geth 1.5 release, Ethereum integrates an alpha version Swarm in its main client; a distributed storage platform that is part of Ethereum’s vision of Web 3.0.**

The long-term goal of Ethereum goes far beyond creating a currency. Instead, the developers aim to build a decentralized Internet known as Web 3.0. While Ether, the digital asset fuelling the Blockchain, already serves as a gas to facilitate transactions and contracts, the other components of the web3 stack are still in early development. One of them has made it into a release of the Ethereum client geth as an experimental feature for the testnet; Swarm.
[read more on btcmanager](https://btcmanager.com/news/tech/new-release-of-ethereums-client-geth-awakens-the-swarm/)