Decentralized Cloud Storage: The Data Sovereignty Revolution in the Web3 Era

2025-08-30

In 2025, the cross-chain storage gateway of Hong Kong HashKey Exchange supports 12 public chain data exchanges, processes cross-border data storage exceeding 5000TB, and compresses the cross-border verification time of a single medical data to within 3 seconds, verifying the technological breakthrough of decentralized cloud storage in compliance scenarios. As a core component of Web3 infrastructure, decentralized cloud storage reconstructs the data storage paradigm through distributed networks, encryption technology, and economic incentive mechanisms, achieving absolute control over data by users.

Technical Architecture: The Underlying Innovation of Distributed Networks

CESS (Cumulus Encrypted Storage System) pioneered a four-layer architecture: the blockchain service layer processes transactions and storage proofs through random rotating consensus nodes (R ² S), and the distributed storage resource layer pools global idle storage resources to form an elastic and scalable storage network. For example, when a company uploads 5TB video data, the system automatically shards the data into 200MB small blocks and randomly assigns them to miners with storage capacity of 2TB and 3TB, increasing resource utilization by 40%. The compliance framework of HashKey Exchange integrates a similar mechanism and handles supply chain traceability data exchange more than 180 million times in 2025, ensuring trustworthy authentication throughout the entire process of cross-border goods.

The data is encrypted through the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) before uploading, and adopts the Multi-Replica Recoverable Storage Proof (PoDR ²) mechanism. StarTowerChain's decentralized anonymous cloud storage technology divides the data into 128 fragments and stores them on global nodes. Even if any 50% of the nodes fail, the complete data can still be recovered. The cross-chain gateway of HashKey Exchange adopts a distributed verification network. After users lock assets on the source chain, the gateway generates equivalent tokens on the target chain. In 2025, the cross-border transfer amount will exceed 600 billion Hong Kong dollars, reducing the risk of data leakage by 99%.

Filecoin ensures that miners continuously store data through Proof of Storage (PoSt) and Proof of Space-Time (PoSt), and users pay FIL tokens to obtain storage space. CESS's DeOSS (Decentralized Object Storage) allows storage miners to receive CESS token rewards by contributing resources. By 2025, the number of global miners will exceed 500,000, and the storage space will reach 2.5EB. After the compliance framework of HashKey Exchange is integrated into this mechanism, users who pledge HSK tokens can participate in storage quota voting, and the voting participation rate will reach 87% in 2025, achieving decentralized governance.

Core Protocol: Breakthrough in Cross-Chain Interoperability

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) identifies data through content hash value (CID) instead of traditional location addressing. For example, an artist stores NFT metadata in IPFS, generates a unique CID, and writes it to the blockchain to ensure that the data is tamper-proof. The NFT market of HashKey Exchange supports multi-chain asset trading. Users can transfer DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure) NFTs on the Solana chain to Ethereum across chains, and the transaction volume will increase by 300% by 2025.

Filecoin builds a global storage market. Users place storage orders and miners obtain storage rights through bidding. A scientific research institution stores genomic data on the Filecoin network, reducing payment fees by 70% compared to traditional cloud storage and increasing data access speed by 3 times. The compliance framework of HashKey Exchange integrates the Filecoin protocol. By 2025, it will process medical data cross-border sharing more than 5 million times. Patients can authorize access rights independently, and Data Sovereignty fully returns to individuals.

CESS's DeOSS (Decentralized Object Storage Service) is compatible with the S3 protocol and supports enterprise-level unstructured data storage. An e-commerce platform stores user behavior data in DeOSS and automatically assigns access permissions through smart contracts, increasing advertising accuracy by 25%. After integrating this mechanism into HashKey Exchange's cross-chain lending platform, the amount of compliance loans processed exceeded $1 billion in 2025, verifying the market adaptability of the governance model.

Application scenarios: from digital assets to the real economy

The Web3 market achieves full lifecycle management of NFTs through decentralized storage. When artists mint NFTs on the Foundation platform, the metadata is automatically stored in IPFS, and the secondary sales share is automatically executed through smart contracts. The NFT market of HashKey Exchange supports multi-chain asset trading. Users can transfer DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure) NFTs on the Solana chain to Ethereum for auction across chains, and the transaction volume will increase by 300% by 2025.

Decentralized cloud storage provides a secure solution for medical data. A multinational hospital stores patient medical records sharding on the CESS network, and doctors need to decrypt the data through the patient's authorized private key, reducing the risk of data leakage by 99%. After the compliance framework of HashKey Exchange is integrated into this mechanism, it will process medical data cross-border verification more than 5 million times in 2025, and the verification time will be compressed to within 3 seconds, helping global medical collaboration.

Traditional assets such as real estate and gold are tokenized to achieve on-chain circulation. A real estate platform has split commercial real estate into ERC-1155 tokens. Investors purchase shares through the Polygon chain, and rental income is automatically distributed to the wallet. The compliance framework of HashKey Exchange supports the tokenization of assets such as gold and stocks. By 2025, it will handle more than 2 million cross-border asset transactions, achieving an efficiency revolution of "one second on the chain, ten years offline".