Recently, I was completely angered by the套路 of a leading cloud storage platform.

As a freelance designer for many years, I store project source files and client contracts in the cloud for convenience. But the day before yesterday, when I urgently needed to deliver materials to the client, my download speed was limited to snail pace. The customer service actually told me that unlocking commercial files requires subscribing to enterprise services, costing 500 yuan per month. What’s more heartbreaking is that they could even report how many unpublished方案 files I have—meaning my design drafts are fully visible to the platform. At that moment, I realized that what’s stored in centralized cloud storage isn’t just files, but also leverage that can be controlled by others.

After hanging up, I started to seriously think about this issue. Storage is indeed a dilemma: relying on centralized platforms is convenient but restrictive. What about those early decentralized storage solutions? They are expensive and difficult to use, making them inaccessible to ordinary people.

Recently, I truly understood the concept behind some new storage ecosystems. Take a方案 based on the Sui chain, for example. It offers a programmable storage architecture combined with key management. The core selling point is: I control my data, I set permissions, and I no longer have to worry about speed limits or being spied on. This design philosophy is completely different from centralized cloud storage—one is platform-controlled, the other is user-controlled over who can see what.

The ecosystem incentive design is also interesting. These tokens are real consumables within the entire storage network—used for storing files, staking to run nodes, and participating in governance. With a deflationary mechanism, the more you use, the scarcer the tokens become, creating a healthier economic cycle rather than just speculative objects.

I heard that by 2026, this system will be deeply integrated into the Sui ecosystem. By then, designers will store files on-chain and unlock high-speed access with related tokens as standard operation. Imagine never having to face cloud customer service again, with data security and access speed fully in your control.

From being restricted by centralized platforms to understanding the true value of decentralized storage, this shift is significant for me. It’s not just a technical choice, but a redefinition of data ownership and privacy.