As Web3's infrastructure, decentralized storage carries great importance. Despite the existence of such classic projects like Filecoin, many people are still more familiar with traditional storage, but know very little about the practical application of decentralized storage. Sooner or later, blockchain-based decentralized storage will enter people's everyday life in all aspects in the future.
How decentralized storage works?
In the work mode of decentralized storage, all the stored information is encrypted, processed through smart contract, stored in different node in a distributed manner, by doing so, then individuals can directly control the data.
What are the applications of decentralized storage?
1. Encrypted storage of files
Personal data will be sliced into pieces and stored in multiple independent storage spaces. Device servers and storage providers are in a one-to-many relationship, thus ensuring sufficiently secure space for data. At the same time, data fragmentation ensures that personal privacy cannot be accessed by one or more other servers. Taking photo storage as an example, if the photo is stored on physical hard disks or cloud storage, once a hard disk is lost or a cloud account is attacked and stolen, the data stored on it is bound to be leaked.
2. Ownership of information
One major problem which Web3 needs to address is how to ensure personal ownership of the network information will no longer be stolen. Again, let's take photos as an example. Suppose that photos are the work of photographers and are stolen, then the photographers will face such problems as loss of copyright, failed to maintain legal rights and inability to get royalties. Decentralized storage ensures the ownership the moment when information is created and stored through encryption. Currently, the Datamall Chain Storage Project can easily achieve this through the OOD (Owner Online Devices) product released by its underlying protocol Cyber File System.
3. Reasonable allocation of remaining computer capacity
Many blockchain projects such as Filecoin, Storj, DMC, Arweave and Sia now can achieve decentralized storage with low thresholds. Only one computer or mobile phone is needed for people to experience decentralized storage. Projects like DMC can solve the problem of idle hardware memory. By providing idle storage capacity for people with storage needs, it not only improves equipment utilization and optimizes resource allocation, people also can earn rewards from transactions.
4. Unlimited access to content
Avoiding censorship and eliminating shackles brought by the internet firewalls, decentralized storage enables users to access their hosted content anywhere.
With the development and iteration of technology, the internet has brought many changes to people's daily life. There is now a need to change from "ease of use" to "reliability". Through Cyber File System-based Datamall Chain storage, the Internet will be the largest cloud storage. First and foremost, the decentralized internet belongs to all and serves all, and everyone can be a node. Secondly, user data are private property, and it is owned by users themselves through decentralized storage, rather than being controlled by platforms. Thirdly, the data it holds unlimited value. On a decentralized network, everyone can create their own content and get benefits from it.
