Crust Network Introduces Crato — The Cloud Storage Solution of the New Era
Crust Network Introduces Crato, a decentralized distributed cloud storage solution based on blockchain, provides Decentralized Storage service based on IPFS and Crust.
Crato focuses on providing more efficient space for cloud storage infrastructure and a more open expansion environment for cloud storage applications. Crato is committed to becoming a powerful middle platform in distributed cloud storage network architecture and enabling a new storage ecosystem in the era of blockchain.
What is IPFS?
IPFS (Inter Planetary File System) a P2P storage network that every two nodes can exchange their data via DHT (Distributed Hash Table) protocol. In IPFS network a file is divided into numbers of blocks each has a unique CID (Content Identity). A file block contains its children’s CIDs. It can search and get the blocks by its children’s CIDs via DHT. This process runs recursively until a whole file downloaded.
What is Crust?
Crust implements the incentive layer protocol for decentralized storage. It is adaptable to multiple storage layer protocols such as IPFS, and provides support for the application layer. Crust’s architecture also has the capability of supporting a decentralized computing layer and building a decentralized cloud ecosystem.
The relationship between Crust and IPFS is quite similar to the relationship between incentive layer and storage layer. Filecoin protocols encourage nodes in the network to provide storage capacity through incentives, which IPFS can exactly provide this kind of storage ability.
How Crato Works?
1. Crato provide storage service to our customer by using Centralized Storage + Decentralized Storage. Customers don’t have to pay close attention to IPFS and the chain. Users just need to upload the data and the centralized server will assign tasks.
2. Crato use multiple ways to encrypt the sensitive data. Users can operate the encrypting procedure on their own side. Even though centralized server is used, the encryption key of the files will not be stored directly.
About Crato
Crato is a decentralized distributed cloud storage solution based on blockchain, provides Decentralized Storage service based on IPFS and Crust.
