By 2026, as AI and blockchain technology truly collide, a storage revolution is quietly underway. The core storage protocol within the Sui ecosystem is redefining how developers store and manage large-scale data in a completely different way.

This is not a traditional file storage system. It is designed specifically for the AI era, creating a chain-agnostic decentralized data marketplace. Developers can directly upload AI datasets, model weights, videos, or NFT media without worrying about exploding costs or system single points of failure — addressing the pain points of centralized cloud services.

The underlying technology adopts innovative Red Stuff encoding and erasure coding schemes, enabling PB-level high-availability storage with only 4-5 times data replication. As for costs? It’s 80-100 times cheaper than some well-known decentralized storage protocols, and even far surpasses the price advantages of traditional cloud providers like AWS. This provides a tangible competitive edge for developers aiming to deploy AI applications at scale.

Looking deeper, the core of this system is a programmable blob — data exists directly as objects within the ecosystem, allowing read/write, transaction, and version control within smart contracts. Coupled with encryption layers, user data access is fully controllable and resistant to censorship.

From an operational perspective, since the launch of the autonomous network, the system has processed a large number of transactions. Recent updates have optimized the fee mechanism — tokens are used to prepay storage duration, with fees evenly distributed to network nodes and participants, and some fees are burned, creating a deflationary economic model.

The ecosystem is also accelerating its development, recently supporting data migration across multiple platforms and further improving the infrastructure layer of the Sui ecosystem. All these point in the same direction: decentralized storage is moving from concept to practical implementation.