In the decentralized storage space on the Sui chain, one project has captured 90% of the market share on its own, which is quite rare. But this is not a marketing gimmick; it’s a real technological breakthrough.

The key lies in that RedStuff encoding scheme. How do other storage protocols in the Sui ecosystem handle it? Most are based on traditional RS erasure coding, which results in replication factors soaring to 15-20 times, making storage costs prohibitively high, and data retrieval taking over 1 second, completely stalling dynamic applications. In comparison, RedStuff uses XOR operations to reduce the replication factor to 4-5 times, cutting costs by 70%, and data read latency drops to milliseconds. This gap is not a minor optimization but a qualitative leap—no wonder 80% of dynamic applications in the Sui ecosystem choose this scheme, with developers voting with their feet.

Looking at the security design, some storage protocols lower their fault tolerance to cut costs. If more than 30% of nodes go offline, the data recovery success rate drops below 50%, which is essentially gambling on luck. RedStuff’s encoding is impressive because even if two-thirds of the slices are lost, it can still recover data 100%. This redundancy design is crucial for applications handling fund transfers, where data loss means direct financial loss, leaving no room for error.

Once the technical barrier is built, it’s hard to be overturned. The current leading position of this project is ultimately earned through hardcore engineering capabilities.