Storage mirrors every DCS-built site to Filecoin the moment it publishes — content-addressed, replicated across independent providers, and backed by a cryptographic proof of storage. No vendor in the path. No "deal terminated" email. Ever.
On Filecoin, every file is addressed by the hash of its own contents — its CID. Change a single byte and the hash changes, so the CID stops resolving. There is no way to alter stored data and have it still look like the original.
Watch a tampered byte break the CID — and the gateway refuse to serve it.
Every artifact is pinned with a replication factor and a durability window baked into its receipt. Choose a tier and watch the copies spread.
A representative view — the live network spans thousands of independent providers across every continent. Pay-once-store options available; pricing is fixed, no credits.
Decentralized storage isn't a marketing label — it's a different set of guarantees. No single vendor in the path. No pricing changes overnight.
Thousands of independent storage providers across every continent. No single vendor can deplatform you, raise prices unilaterally, or lose your data.
Providers compete in an open market. Pricing is transparent and trends down — pay-once-store-forever deals exist. Try getting that from AWS.
Content addressing means tampering is detectable. Every byte hashes to its CID — change a stored site and the CID simply stops resolving.
Replication count, region preference and encryption are configurable per site. Defaults handle the 99% case; the knobs exist for the 1%.
"Stored" should mean provably stored, right now. Three Filecoin-native proofs run across the network so replication is real, not nominal.
Providers continuously prove they still hold the data over time — not just that they once received it. A lapsed proof triggers automatic re-replication.
Each replica is cryptographically distinct. A provider can't store one copy and report many — replication is real, not nominal.
Every site upload produces a public deal. Anyone can audit when, where and by whom your site was preserved — no trust in DCS required.
Every DCS agent action — compute, build, deploy, erasure — is signed with ed25519 and pinned to Filecoin alongside the artifact. Same chain head CID surfaces in the OS dashboard, the public verifier and the certificate PDF.
Every compute_inference, build_complete and
erasure_complete event is signed at emit time with the
dcs-receipt-key-2026 private key. Canonicalised JSON, sorted keys, no
whitespace — anyone can recompute the bytes and verify.
Each receipt is pinned to Filecoin via Lighthouse SDK 0.4.5. The CID becomes the universal handle. Storage is the only product where every action and every artifact are content-addressed on the same network.
The same chain head CID surfaces in the OS dashboard, on the public verifier at
verify.dcsai.ai, and inside the certificate PDF — three views, one
provable handle.
Auto-mirror covers websites today; the others land progressively as the DCS product surface expands.
Open knowledge benefits from open infrastructure. These are the datasets DCS intends to mirror — pinning sequenced as community partnerships and budget allow.
Transparent about what works in production today and what's on the way.
1× / 3× / 5× replication with 1y / 7y / 99y durability windows — the SLA tier is baked into every receipt.
Batched cross-replica query in under 30s. A public meter shows replica count and any at-risk receipts.
Per-tenant DEK + KEK wrapping. Erasure shreds the key; data on Filecoin becomes mathematically unreadable, with a signed receipt.
Build logs, image bank and agent outputs auto-pinned to Filecoin after every Compute run — prompt to site to artifacts, all chained.
An hourly sweep re-attempts failed or pending pins — no artifact gets stuck in limbo on a transient backend blip.
Operator reputation anchored on Base alongside the receipt chain — the first mint is executed and live.
An EU backend is deployed; gateway and orchestrator images are public on GHCR for independent inspection.
The x402 HTTP payment protocol on the upload endpoint — agents pay-as-they-pin, on rails Filecoin natively understands.
A one-click upgrade to a pay-once, store-forever permanence deal — straight from the dashboard.
Six phases from auto-mirror to cross-product permanence. Most of the underlying infrastructure already runs in production; phase milestones are productisation steps.
Magic-link auth, Cloudflare Pages frontend, Lighthouse SDK 0.4.5 wedge unlock, asset vault CRUD with sha256 dedup, drag-drop upload, per-asset certificate PDF, v3 premium frontend redesign. 30+ items completed across May 7-12. 19 sessions verified mirrored.
Receipt chain, public verifier, certificate-chain PDF, network stats, embed badge, press kit, JSON export. Satisfies Storage NEW 1 + Compute NEW 1 + Unified Roadmap X1 simultaneously. Day 1-10 v3 marathon delivered this.
Standard (mirrored), Guaranteed (multi-region pinned + monitored), Permanent (endowment-style, Arweave pay-once model adapted). Live on-chain "last proven retrievable" timestamp per tier — wraps Filecoin's 2026 SLA-driven storage markets as a product available now.
SDXL image bank, build logs, agent outputs — auto-pinned. Storage becomes the permanence layer for the entire DCS ecosystem, not just the website product. The moat made concrete — requires owning Platform + Compute + Storage at once.
We've watched too many "decentralised storage" products oversell. Here's the honest list of things Storage is not built for, and won't pretend to handle.
Your customer-facing site loads from Vercel's edge — sub-100ms globally, same speed as Wix. The Filecoin mirror is for permanence and verification, not for serving traffic. We trade a few latency points for guarantees AWS structurally can't offer.
Filecoin is for content-addressed artifacts, not transactional records. Storage mirrors websites, certificates and signed receipts — all things that benefit from immutable + auditable. Your CRM, your bookings table, your inventory — those live in Postgres.
Private archives are encrypted client-side via Kavach. Plaintext never leaves the browser. We physically cannot search inside encrypted blobs — if you need search, store metadata separately.
Your customers visit a normal HTTPS URL — no wallets, no MetaMask, no seed phrases. The Filecoin mirror is invisible to them. We won't bolt on a Web3 layer that adds friction to your users' experience.
A site auto-mirrored on publish — and an integrity check anyone can run.
Storage is the permanence layer — these products write to it.
Real questions, answered straight.
One email when auto-mirror unlocks for every tier. No drip campaign. No sales sequences.
Content-addressed, replicated, and provable — preserved long after any vendor is gone.