Have you ever thought about this situation—opening an NFT minted five years ago, the webpage loads smoothly, the price is still fluctuating, but the image has long since gone dead. It's not a bug; the storage service from back then has been completely shut down.

This is the most ironic part of Web3: the on-chain ledger is forever, but off-chain data is as fragile as paper. We solved the trust problem of transfers with blockchain, yet we leave the life and death of content to centralized service providers.

There's a protocol that wants to change the approach. Instead of creating another decentralized cloud storage, it redesigns how data stays alive. It fragments large files, encodes, and disperses them across multiple nodes—so even if several nodes crash simultaneously, the entire data can still be fully restored. Storage shifts from a gamble of luck to a gamble on the reliability of the protocol itself.

The most interesting part is that these distributed data are no longer just "attachments." Smart contracts can directly read and invoke them, used for logical judgments, triggering state changes, or even participating in value flows. Those Web3 applications that were theoretically feasible but didn't last long in practice suddenly have a real infrastructure to sustain them.

In this system, tokens are not speculative chips but coordination tools. Those who provide storage earn rewards; those who consume resources pay fees. How to maintain long-term balance—everything is governed and incentivized through mechanism design.

History repeatedly shows us that the collapse of civilization often begins with the disappearance of records. To avoid this trap, Web3 must take storage seriously. Perhaps what ultimately determines the future isn't the next hot trend, but which data can withstand the test of time.