Are you shocked every month by cloud storage bills? If you're using traditional platforms like AWS or Azure, you might already be accustomed to those high costs. Recently, a protocol has been working on one thing—using technological means to directly cut down this cost issue.

The principle isn't complicated, but the idea is indeed different. By fragmenting data with erasure coding technology and dispersing storage, then utilizing idle storage resources worldwide, the cost structure is naturally reconstructed. But cheapness is just superficial; user experience is the key. Imagine storing 660 small files and still being able to find a specific one in seconds—something that conventional distributed storage can't typically achieve.

Even more interesting is the "activation" of data. With specialized tools, you can set various conditions for data access: "This report can only be viewed after paying 0.1 tokens," "This game save can only be unlocked after the season ends." Data transforms from static storage objects into assets that can interact, circulate, and generate value.

Currently, petabyte-level real business data has been migrated to this network, covering NFT content, digital identities, AI models, and advertising data. More cutting-edge is that this ecosystem is expanding into fields like electric vehicle data and carbon credits, in cooperation with existing partners. This means tokens are not just governance tools but also circulation mediums and value benchmarks within the entire data economy.

Judging by the list of partners and the scale of existing business, this is not just conceptual. Community discussions are frequent, and development is progressing. If by 2026 you're still worried about cloud costs, it might be time to reconsider your data storage solutions.