Overview of Web3 Data Characteristics

From the read-only Web1, to the read-write Web2, and now to the current Web3 that emphasizes sovereignty and Read-Write-Own, this is an inevitable development trend in the internet era. The core of Read-Write-Own lies in data sovereignty, which includes both digital asset sovereignty and user data sovereignty.

Decentralized cloud storage achieves the core of Web3 through distributed data storage and rights confirmation, making it a necessary infrastructure for the development of the Web3 era. We can explore the characteristics of Web3 data and how decentralized cloud storage technology meets these characteristics.

Web3 Data Characteristics

From the perspective of data, Web1 requires content creators to manage their own servers and distribution infrastructure, placing the responsibility of data storage on the publishers.

Web2, on the other hand, is rooted in social media platforms, providing unlimited storage space to attract users to create and upload content, and then storing and using this data in a centralized manner. Platforms have pioneered various business models to profit from data at the expense of user privacy. As a result, users do not possess data sovereignty and data privacy, and are constrained by certain social media platforms that lock them into fixed ecosystems. There are significant social migration costs between different ecosystems.

Web3 addresses these existing issues through decentralized cloud storage technology, where the blockchain node network allows global consumers to access stored data. Therefore, how to better construct the data characteristics of Web3 and unleash the data potential of Web3 is a steadfast goal for the infrastructure. Web3 data typically has the following three important characteristics:

- Data Sovereignty Returns

Data sovereignty returns to the users. The protection of data sovereignty should transcend platform-level and even reach a world-class level, ensuring the collective rights of digital world users through world-class consensus. In the traditional world, this protection is platform-level, and the rules come from non-consensus; a single platform-level company can control all the rules and change them at any time to infringe on individual user sovereignty.

- Data Privacy Protection

User data privacy security is mathematically guaranteed through cryptography, rather than through database network security methods. User-controlled selective encryption is one of the fundamental rights of user data sovereignty.

- High-Frequency Data Updates

How to support real-time updates and high-frequency dynamic data is currently a challenge posed by the Web3 industry to the underlying data infrastructure. The industry currently faces issues with slow on-chain storage and write operations, which stem from the need to ensure the security design of blockchain systems; the length (size) of any blockchain distributed ledger will significantly grow with use. Therefore, meeting the high-frequency update and real-time data demands required by Web3 is another data characteristic that cannot be ignored.

CESS Meets Web3 Data Characteristics, Unlocks Web3 Data Value

Building infrastructure more suitable for Web3, meeting the needs for data storage, data sovereignty, privacy protection, and data monetization in Web3, and providing a full-stack storage solution is the path that CESS has adhered to for three years and will continue to cultivate. It can be said that CESS fully meets the data characteristics of Web3 through various technologies, unlocking the data value of Web3 and promoting the circulation and sharing of data value.

• Achieving Data Rights Confirmation, Returning Sovereignty to Users.

CESS adopts MDRC (Multi-type Data Rights Confirmation Mechanism). When users upload data, CESS storage miners will preprocess the data, including digital fingerprint extraction --- --- fingerprint on-chain --- --- fingerprint comparison, and other processes. The on-chain digital fingerprint will serve as the unique proof of data ownership, MDRC ensures data rights confirmation on the CESS network, returning data ownership to data owners.

• Achieving Massive Storage, Supporting Real-Time Updates and Privacy Protection.

CESS pioneered DeOSS (Decentralized Object Storage Service), which serves as a decentralized, object-based massive storage service within the CESS network, aimed at providing users with high-speed, high-security, scalable, and privacy-managed decentralized storage services for high-frequency dynamic data storage needs. DeOSS supports online real-time data sharing, ensuring user data privacy through data privacy management and tiered privacy permissions, allowing users to decide whether to make their data public, private, or partially private.

Moreover, CESS has innovatively introduced TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), ensuring that data processing is carried out under the PoDR² (Proof of Data Recovery with Multiple Replicas) mechanism, implementing encryption, storage proof, decryption, and other processes to guarantee confidentiality and integrity, thereby maintaining data security and privacy.

• Achieving Data Monetization, Allowing Every User to Enjoy the Circulation and Sharing of Data Value.

CESS introduces a decentralized proxy re-encryption mechanism, enabling data owners to change data ownership between users without disclosing data content, maximizing the usage value of data while ensuring privacy.

Conclusion

In the Web3 era, enabling every enterprise and user to possess data sovereignty is fundamental, and the value generated from the data circulation achieved on this basis will also be enjoyed by data owners. CESS not only provides infrastructure for the industry but also promotes a new era of data economy where users hold data ownership, privacy rights, and value benefits!