Once again supported by the Web3 Foundation! CESS will develop a storage pallet for Substrate

On March 7, 2022, the Web3 Foundation approved the proposal for CESS to apply for a grant to develop a storage pallet for Substrate. This is a new proposal following CESS's successful completion of all milestones for the W3F Grant and receiving grant funding support on January 25, 2022.

The Web3 Foundation's approval of this proposal reflects trust in CESS's technical capabilities and indicates that the Substrate open-source framework indeed requires such a storage module to decentralize the underlying infrastructure and establish the ability to support high-frequency data interaction applications.

The proposal submitted by CESS not only allows projects developed on Substrate to integrate CESS's storage services directly through this pallet without major modifications to the code, whether they are newly built chains or existing ones, but also enables users to conveniently upload and download data through a customized storage REST component without the need to install additional client programs.
Once implemented, this proposal will have a significant impact on both CESS itself and the Substrate ecosystem, specifically including:

· Attracting ecosystem participants to CESS

Substrate is the most important tool in the Polkadot ecosystem, an open-source blockchain toolkit that packages various functional modules included in the blockchain. Developers can easily select the required functionalities, and the modules are connected via interfaces. Currently, hundreds of projects use Substrate as their development framework, including many projects outside the Polkadot ecosystem. Integrating the storage "toolkit" into the Substrate "tool library" can bring more and more ecosystem participants to CESS in the future, increasing the frequency of storage usage and enhancing the storage yield level of the CESS protocol itself.

· Improving storage module performance to attract developers

So far, the storage module of Substrate still uses IPFS, but the current user experience of IPFS is not good. Many projects developed with Substrate tend to use other decentralized storage solutions or even directly use cloud storage. After the integration of the CESS storage module, the performance of Substrate's storage module will be greatly enhanced, providing convenience for developers and attracting more developers to adopt the Substrate framework.

This is another important milestone in the technical progress of the CESS project. As a high-speed, secure, and scalable decentralized cloud storage network infrastructure developed on Substrate, CESS aims to become a more convenient, secure, and efficient DApp development platform that supports WASM and is compatible with EVM smart contracts through its storage technology. After providing the storage pallet for Substrate, CESS can not only offer storage services to the Polkadot ecosystem and the broader Substrate ecosystem but will also significantly improve the efficiency of building its own future ecosystem.