Every device contributes spare disk into one content-addressed pool — that replicates only what matters. Storage, databases, and compute on one grid. Not the cloud. Not BitTorrent. Not a blockchain.
Real numbers, served live by a node on the network. It's early — small on purpose, honest by default. No projections, no vanity metrics.
The internet already has the hardware — billions of devices with idle disk. ZephCraft pools it into one elastic utility. Redundancy is engineered to need, from three knobs:
4× redundancy survives losing three-quarters of all pieces. Full-copy replication needs ~20× for the same durability. The floor is cheap.
Popular content gains providers where there's traffic — and sheds them when demand fades. Temporary, bandwidth-driven.
Anyone can pin content they care about — a guaranteed anchor. BitTorrent's "seed forever," done deliberately.
Content nobody wants and nobody pins is allowed to disappear. Not a bug — the network never pays to keep garbage alive.
| system | how it replicates | the catch |
|---|---|---|
| BitTorrent | Accidental — a side-effect of who's online. Popular = 1000× copies, unpopular = 1× then 0. | Wasteful and fragile. Whole-file copies, no erasure, no repair — dies when the last seed leaves. |
| The cloud | Hidden in a data center you rent, at "11 nines" you can't verify. | You don't own it. You pay forever. One company can revoke it. |
| Blockchains | Total — every node stores everything. | O(N) waste. More nodes ≠ more capacity. |
| ZephCraft | Engineered to need — floor + demand + pins. Deduplicated. Self-healing. | Leaner and more durable at once. Distribution, not replication. More nodes = more capacity. |
The same network that stores your bytes runs real databases, sandboxed compute, and a durable name registry — every layer built and validated on the live cluster.
Content-addressed objects, self-healing erasure coding, demand-driven lifecycle. Private files are ciphertext-only on the wire.
Real SQLite over content-addressed pages. One writer per database, anyone reads — durable and recoverable from the grid even if the owner dies.
Fuel-metered sandboxes with capability-scoped SQL + storage. Deploy by name, invoke from any node — the caller's identity comes free with the connection.
A durable, owner-signed name registry — sharded, writer-elected, resharded live by governance. Your names resolve with you offline. No committee anywhere.
You don't each own a generator sized to your peak — you draw from a grid sized to aggregate demand. Storage should work the same way.
Every file is named by its hash. Dedup and integrity come for free — the name is the checksum.
Any node holding two coded pieces can mint fresh ones — no re-download. Data survives churn no replication scheme can match.
Single-writer-per-identity means no blockchain, no gas, no global agreement. It scales linearly, not O(N).
A keypair is the only credential. Anyone can run a node, a relay, or the routing DHT. If we vanish, the network keeps healing.
The node runs today on macOS and Linux — connecting across NAT, over its own relays, storing and healing real data. Public builds land with the storage network.