One of the biggest headaches in Web3 applications is the long-term storage and verifiability of on-chain data. A decentralized storage protocol emerging in the IC ecosystem has changed this situation — it provides a trusted, highly available data storage solution for various dApps through a network of distributed containerized storage nodes.

The core advantage of this solution is very straightforward: dApps can directly read and write data through smart contracts without bypassing complex intermediate layers. At the same time, the cost is significantly lower, and scalability is well achieved. This means developers no longer need to struggle between decentralization and practicality; they can simply push storage requirements to the protocol layer.

With the explosive growth of the on-chain ecosystem, similar data infrastructure is gradually becoming standard in Web3. The reason this protocol is so promising is because it truly addresses real-world pain points.