The Web3 hot storage network is here! Can Shelby, jointly launched by Aptos and Jump Crypto, trigger a new revolution in the decentralized storage paradigm?
Although on-chain data has the characteristics of being immutable and verifiable, its high storage costs and latency limit the interactivity and real-time nature of Web3 applications.
Early Web3 storage systems, such as IPFS and Arweave, although providing decentralized data availability guarantees, mainly focused on "cold storage" scenarios, that is, data is stored in a static, rarely accessed state.
Although distributed peer-to-peer cold storage solutions reduce storage costs, data writing is expensive and reading speeds are slow, which cannot meet the needs of real-time, frequently interactive application scenarios.
For a long time, Web3 has lacked a true "hot storage," that is, a storage infrastructure that supports low-latency, high-throughput data reading capabilities. Therefore, past Web3 applications often stored a large amount of state data (such as real-time player positions in multiplayer online games, and real-time order book data in DeFi protocols) in the front-end or centralized cache, which violated the principles of decentralization and verifiability.
Shelby was born in this context, with the vision of providing a truly scalable, high-performance, off-chain verifiable cloud-level distributed hot storage network, providing millisecond-level response, high throughput, and excellent scalability for the Web3 world, thereby bridging the gap between on-chain smart contracts and real-world data needs.
If we simplify Shelby's distributed hot storage network, it will mainly consist of three parts: a storage layer responsible for the real peer-to-peer physical medium storage, a communication layer that optimizes read and write speeds, and a protocol layer responsible for internal incentives and auditing:
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