In the crypto world, everyone knows but pretends not to: when talking about decentralization, TPS, and consensus mechanisms, they turn around and throw data into some centralized cloud service when it comes to storage. This contradiction of "what is said and what is done" might finally be broken with the emergence of new storage solutions.

**Efficiency is the hard truth—why not Arweave and Filecoin**

People often ask, since there are already decentralized storage solutions on the market, why bother paying attention to new projects? The answer is simple: cost.

Traditional on-chain storage mainly has two approaches: either replicate the entire file across multiple nodes (which is prohibitively expensive), or use erasure coding techniques, but data recovery can cause network traffic that will scare you. Now, there is a self-developed solution called Red Stuff, which uses 2D erasure coding to disperse and distribute files across the network. As long as more than 2/3 of the nodes are alive, data can be recovered in minutes. The coolest part? Its replication factor only needs to be 4 to 5 times, whereas some competitors require hundreds of times to ensure security. Storing a large video or AI model with this method can be so cheap that you might suspect a calculation error.

**"Active" storage is the future**

Past storage systems were just warehouses—put data in and that’s it, dead data piled up. But this new approach is different; it turns storage into objects that can truly circulate within the network. Data is no longer passive; it gains "vitality," allowing it to be called upon, processed, and orchestrated across different application scenarios. This is what Web3 truly needs.