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How many people spend a lot of money buying NFTs but haven't considered a critical issue—are your digital assets really in your hands?
Simply put, most NFTs' images and metadata are stored on centralized servers like Pinata. Once these platforms cease maintenance, servers go offline, or the holder stops paying fees, those so-called eternal "digital collectibles" instantly turn into 404 errors. Investments worth tens of thousands of dollars can vanish in an instant. This is not decentralization at all; it's just working for middlemen, who also have to worry about "sub-landlords" clearing out their assets at any time.
A project directly addressing this pain point offers a satisfying solution—using a storage fund to completely change the game. The core mechanism is clever: when uploading files, users prepay all storage interest upfront, and network nodes will actively compete to help you store data for profit. This way, personal relationships, sub-landlords, and arbitrary price hikes are eliminated, leaving only code rules and economic incentives in operation.
On the technical side, the solution is robust. Built on the Sui ecosystem, the distributed storage scheme employs erasure coding and blob storage technology. Simply put, your files are shredded, scrambled, and dispersed across multiple independent nodes. Even if some nodes fail, the entire file can still be fully recovered. This anti-censorship, highly redundant storage method truly lives up to Web3's promises.
From a strategic perspective, transforming storage costs into protocol-level interest incentives is a brilliant design. This is completely different from projects that merely sell storage space; it creates a storage market with real economic cycles. Once this model is operational, the monopoly of traditional cloud storage providers will be seriously challenged.
The ecosystem has enormous expansion potential. Games, social media, on-chain videos—any large file storage needs low-cost, high-security solutions. Infrastructure projects like this are like building roads; once the infrastructure is in place, countless applications will naturally compete to come onboard.
The community atmosphere is also interesting. Discussions focus on technical implementation and storage optimization, without the impatience of quick price pumps. Instead, there's a genuine desire to solve industry pain points. This is rare in crypto projects.
While everyone is busy innovating at the application layer, projects that focus on infrastructure and truly eliminate middlemen are the real scarcity in the crypto world. Projects that can solve practical problems and have a complete economic model deserve serious attention.