The current public chain race seems to be blooming with various projects. Solana is known for its speed, Ethereum for its security, but no one has truly solved the hidden fatal problem—fragmentation of data storage.

What does reality look like? NFT, blockchain game, and SocialFi asset metadata are indeed on the chain, but what about key files like images, videos, and front-end interfaces? They are still the old way, hanging on AWS or unreliable IPFS gateways. It's like buying a sports car but only being able to drive on muddy roads—the hybrid architecture of on-chain assets combined with Web2 storage is essentially a house of cards.

This is why storage network projects are emerging. Filecoin takes the route of cold storage, but high-performance DApps need a different logic—an instant, cheap, and censorship-resistant data availability layer. This decentralized storage approach, focused on high throughput scenarios, is filling a critical gap in the Sui ecosystem. To put it simply, without this foundational infrastructure, even the fastest public chain performance advantages will be bottlenecked by storage issues. That’s why it’s so crucial for large-scale application deployment.