As we move toward an increasingly autonomous digital future where data is more valuable than ever, the challenge of secure, reliable, permanent storage is becoming increasingly critical, and the infrastructure that supports our data must therefore evolve.
Auto Drive represents a significant step forward in this evolution, providing access to affordable, verifiable, truly permanent on-chain storage by serving as a gateway to the Autonomys Network’s blockspace.
Auto Drive is a decentralized content-addressed storage solution built on the Autonomys Network.
Auto Drive transforms the underlying blockspace that forms the foundation of Autonomys’ distributed storage network (DSN) into a secure, easy-to-use, interoperable data storage tool with a user experience akin to Web2 cloud platforms.
Today’s Web3 ecosystem faces a significant contradiction: while blockchain transactions themselves are immutable and decentralized, the actual data referenced by those transactions is often stored on centralized or temporary infrastructure, creating critical reliability issues. This is because traditional blockchain networks and storage solutions treat data storage as a separate service — either on-chain at enormous cost or off-chain with compromised security.
In the Autonomys Network, storage is an intrinsic byproduct of the network’s consensus mechanism — Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS) — which naturally generates vast amounts of blockspace. Auto Drive makes this blockspace accessible to developers and users. Data stored via Auto Drive is secured by the network’s consensus and permanently stored in the same blockspace that maintains the Autonomys Network’s own history and state.
Unlike other “decentralized” storage solutions that often simply distribute data across servers, Auto Drive provides access to genuine on-chain blockspace. This means your data inherits the same permanence, security, and decentralization guarantees as the Autonomys Network itself.
Auto Drive offers an intuitive web interface at ai3.storage that makes storing and accessing blockspace as simple as using a traditional cloud storage service. Users can drag and drop files, create directories, and manage their stored data with ease.
Security is paramount in the decentralized ecosystem. Auto Drive provides optional end-to-end encryption, giving flexibility that puts you in complete control of your data security while maintaining the benefits of on-chain blockspace.
For developers looking to integrate blockspace into their applications, Auto Drive offers:
Auto Drive utilizes the Auto-DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) data structure, which breaks down larger files into manageable chunks that fit within the network’s blockspace. This approach ensures:
Problem: As AI systems become more autonomous, verifying their behavior and the sources of their information becomes critical
Solution: Auto Drive functions as a Trust Layer, creating permanent, verifiable records that can be used to audit agent actions and validate information provenance
This foundation of trust enables more powerful autonomous systems by allowing:
Problem: AI agents need persistent, verifiable memory to build upon experiences and establish trust
Solution: Auto Drive serves as the Blockspace Gateway for AI agents, providing the secure memory foundation they need for true autonomy and trustworthiness
By storing their experiences, learnings, and decision-making history on immutable blockspace, AI agents can:
Problem: NFT assets frequently reference content stored on centralized servers rather than being truly on-chain
Solution: Auto Drive provides decentralized, Permanent On-chain Storage for NFT assets, ensuring they persist as long as the blockchain itself
The Autonomys Network’s unique Proof-of-Archival-Storage consensus mechanism ensures data permanence while creating economically sustainable blockspace, a fundamentally different approach from networks that treat storage as a separate service.
This combination of true permanence, verifiability, and accessibility opens the door to use cases we’ve yet to imagine. From decentralized social networks with user-owned data to scientific datasets that can never be lost or altered, Auto Drive provides the infrastructure for countless innovations yet to be discovered.
As creators and developers continue to explore this new frontier, we anticipate entirely new categories of application to emerge that require the unique properties of decentralized blockspace to function.
Ready to experience truly on-chain blockspace at practical prices? Here’s how to get started:
npm install @autonomys/auto-drive or yarn add @autonomys/auto-driveBy leveraging the Autonomys Network’s transformative approach to blockchain storage, Auto Drive fundamentally reimagines how data can persist in a decentralized world.
Join us in building this future. Your data deserves permanence in secure blockspace, and Auto Drive is here to deliver it.
Don’t store your data. Secure it with Auto Drive.
The Autonomys Network — the foundation layer for AI3.0 — is a hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing high-throughput permanent distributed storage, data availability and access, and modular execution. Our deAI ecosystem provides all the essential components to build and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) and on-chain agents, equipping them with advanced AI capabilities for dynamic and autonomous functionality.
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