Baidu Netdisk recently announced that for users who have not logged into their Baidu Netdisk account from December 25, 2018 to October 15, 2020, the 2T free storage space will be reduced to 100G, and files exceeding 100G will only be supported for downloading. and access, unable to store files.
Since 2013, the rapid increase in users has caused storage costs to continue to rise, and storage products have shifted from a permanently free and unlimited model to a paid model. However, this market is still very broad, and large companies have entered the market one after another.
In the field of blockchain, following the decline in the popularity of the DeFi sector, the NFT and Polkadot sectors have become hot spots. At the same time, the decentralized (distributed) storage sector is also becoming one of several popular tracks, and users continue to grow. On September 28, Filecoin officially announced that it will open the mainnet when the epoch reaches a height of 148888 (expected to be around October 15). As soon as the announcement was released, the currencies of FIL futures and decentralized storage sectors rose accordingly.
According to the data of the popular section of Feixiaohao, as of 15:00 on September 29th, Beijing time, decentralized storage has risen to the third place.
The storage sector has a market of more than 4 trillion US dollars. When IPFS occupies 1% of this market, the market value of FIL is 40 billion, and when it occupies 10%, it is 400 billion. At present, well-known companies such as JD.com, Ali, Tencent, Huawei, etc. have a corresponding layout of IPFS.
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Filecoin
IPFS, InterPlanetary File System (InterPlanetary File System), is a distributed web, point-to-point hypermedia protocol that can make our Internet faster, safer, and more open. The goal of the IPFS protocol is to replace the traditional Internet protocol HTTP.
Filecoin is a decentralized platform for data storage. The project was launched in 2014 and is positioned as a storage infrastructure in the Web3 era. As the official incentive layer, Filecoin has the most ambitious vision. Currently, it has a huge volume, The ecosystem is complete, and it is the undoubted leader in this track, which can also be seen from the currency price that has been advancing all the way.
Filecoin is a token on IPFS, and filecoin is a way to reward miners by contributing idle hard drives.
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Arweave（AR）
Arweave is also an incentive layer application in the IPFS protocol. It is fully compatible with IPFS. The biggest highlight is that data is directly stored in the block, transaction settlement on the chain, permanent storage, and it focuses on one-time payment and permanent file storage. Arweave launched its mainnet on June 8, 2018. Internet users do not need to download new browsers, as long as the Arweave browser plug-in is used to permanently store data such as web pages, emails, and social media posts on the blockchain, which lowers the threshold for using the main network.
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Siacoin
A veteran decentralized cloud storage project.
Sia is a blockchain-based distributed cloud storage platform designed to compete with traditional cloud storage solutions from Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Consistent with the blockchain paradigm, Sia eliminates middlemen, offering users the opportunity to exchange storage directly with each other through its peer-to-peer platform. The cost of using the space is directly written into the smart contract, and the user only has the obligation to fulfill the contract, and has no right to tamper with the price without permission.
Compared with Google and Amazon, the advantages of Sia are data protection, security and cost reduction.
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Storj
Storj was launched in 2017. It is a distributed cloud storage protocol developed based on Ethereum. It is characterized by stable storage, benchmarked against Amazon S3, and focuses on enterprise storage.
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Crust Network
Crust is an incentive layer protocol for decentralized storage, adapts to various storage layer protocols including IPFS, and provides support for the application layer. At the same time, Crusts architecture is also capable of supporting the decentralized computing layer and building a distributed cloud ecosystem. Looking further, Crust encourages nodes to provide decentralized storage and computing for data through blockchain technology, and ultimately reflects ubiquitous decentralized data storage and computing capabilities.
Polkadot Polkadot has more than 200 ecological projects, among which the very famous distributed storage project is Crust Network.
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BitTorrent（BTT）
BitTorrent, the worlds largest file sharing protocol with over 100 million users, was acquired by TRON itself in June 2018, and now they have launched their own token on TRONs network. With the help of BTT, users can pay along with the shared files, both of which get more bandwidth, which will help in faster downloads. BTT is a TRC-10 token.
