Web3 has always had a lingering problem: heavy dependence on text. Whether it's DeFi ledgers or NFT metadata, they're all lightweight kilobytes. To put it bluntly, it's not that developers don't want to use images and videos—it's a matter of cost. Storing 1GB of data on Ethereum or Solana would cost enough for a down payment on a house. This physical constraint has rigidly confined the entire industry to the shape of financial spreadsheets, still worlds away from a true "internet."
There's a project trying to break this deadlock. It wasn't designed for storing hash values, but specifically for storing Blobs (binary large objects). By slicing unstructured heavy data—like 3D models from on-chain games, video streams from decentralized social networks, or even AI training datasets—across a cheap node network, it essentially acts as an "external hard drive" for decentralized applications. Developers can write business logic in Sui smart contracts and hand heavy data to this storage network to handle, achieving a division of labor: "logic on-chain, data in storage."
Once this capability is unleashed, true "full-stack decentralized" applications become possible. Decentralized video platforms no longer need to stack videos on cloud service providers' servers. On-chain games can support complex 3D scenes rather than just text adventures. Even frontend web code can be stored in the network as Blobs, completely freeing itself from dependence on centralized servers. This is the path Web3 should take.
Web3 has always had a lingering problem: heavy dependence on text. Whether it's DeFi ledgers or NFT metadata, they're all lightweight kilobytes. To put it bluntly, it's not that developers don't want to use images and videos—it's a matter of cost. Storing 1GB of data on Ethereum or Solana would cost enough for a down payment on a house. This physical constraint has rigidly confined the entire industry to the shape of financial spreadsheets, still worlds away from a true "internet."
There's a project trying to break this deadlock. It wasn't designed for storing hash values, but specifically for storing Blobs (binary large objects). By slicing unstructured heavy data—like 3D models from on-chain games, video streams from decentralized social networks, or even AI training datasets—across a cheap node network, it essentially acts as an "external hard drive" for decentralized applications. Developers can write business logic in Sui smart contracts and hand heavy data to this storage network to handle, achieving a division of labor: "logic on-chain, data in storage."
Once this capability is unleashed, true "full-stack decentralized" applications become possible. Decentralized video platforms no longer need to stack videos on cloud service providers' servers. On-chain games can support complex 3D scenes rather than just text adventures. Even frontend web code can be stored in the network as Blobs, completely freeing itself from dependence on centralized servers. This is the path Web3 should take.