Storage 3.0, surprisingly hot It's been a long time since there were any new infrastructure projects, and all kinds of pure coin issuance projects were eventually put on hold, ending the imagination. Starting from market demand, it has become the main theme of the next generation of infrastructure, but I really didn't expect innovation to happen first in the storage track. I never expected that the long silent leader Jump and the pure blooded American public chain Aptos would cause trouble. Let's sneak in! ⬇️ What happened during the process of taking a cute little dog photo and saving it to the cloud drive? How are files stored? Splitting this process, cloud storage ensures efficient, secure, and reliable storage and access of files through sharding, encryption, distributed storage, metadata management, and redundancy mechanisms. To further refine, storage is a process of uploading (writing), storing, and retrieving (reading). Web2 has actually done this set very well, and to this day, AWS, Google Cloud, and Aliyun have polished every aspect thoroughly. Why is there still Web3 storage available? Decentralization. Raising the banner of decentralization can make many things appear 'politically correct', and indeed, companies such as FileCoin, IPFS, StorJ, and Arweave have found their own PMFs in different dimensions. In my opinion, none of these projects have solved a problem: they cannot meet the read and write requirements of Web2 level. To put it bluntly, Web3's storage projects generally have decent storage speeds but slow reads. This limits many application scenarios of Web3, such as dynamic NFTs, DeAI, live streaming, creator economy, GameFi, and so on. Now, this situation may be coming to an end. Someone has come in, it's still two people. / Last night I saw Aptos boss @ Aver-Ching and Jump Crypto investment director @ zsparta having a conversation at @ Permissionless. Wow, this is what we were supposed to do. Blockchain giant Aptos Labs has teamed up with top institution Jump Crypto to create the world's first decentralized, high-performance, real-time storage system, truly bringing Web2 level service data to Web3. Project Code: Shelby @ ShelbyServes Aptos' high-speed public chain can be understood, isn't Jump Crypto a market maker? Why did you end up working on the project? Not really. Behind Jump Crypto is the world's top high-frequency trading company, Jump Trading. In order to do well in high-frequency quantitative trading, they have developed, invested in, and acquired a bunch of infrastructure, which can be called infrastructure maniacs. This can also understand why Deepseek was created by a quantitative company rather than a traditional AI company. Shelby can be seen as the beginning of Storage 3.0. Storage 1.0 was a cloud storage service for Web2, while Storage 2.0 was an early storage service for Web3. With 3.0, we officially entered the era of "hot storage". From the Aptos Foundation's ecological leader @ ASHAWANN's tweet, it can be seen that "hot storage" requires storage services with read-write performance and practicality that can be compared to Web2, and has Web3 characteristics such as decentralized high-speed, programmable, and monetizable. Aptos has built a fast and low-cost public chain, and the collaboration should provide underlying technical development support. Jump Crypto should provide architecture support for the business logic layer, which gives Shelby two advantages from birth. The performance described in the document is millisecond level coordination, 600ms latency, 30000 TPS, and the cost is as low as 0.000005/tx. Sui has Walrus, so Aptos wants to create a Shelby? From a technical perspective, it is not. Leaving aside Shelby as the next generation storage technology, it has the ability to extend chain abstraction to public chain ecosystems such as Solana and EVM, making it the infrastructure of the entire Web3. In addition to high-speed storage and reading, programmability supports turning reads and writes into profits. In the future, you can easily earn USDC by watching short videos or reading novels. So from this perspective, Shelby is not a pure storage project, it has a bit of a "service data" meaning. Currently, there is not much information, especially in terms of technical architecture. The white paper has been released, and I will take a closer look. // Aptos has recently voted to reduce production, presented in Congress, and worked on stablecoins. This time, joining forces with Jump Crypto, I feel it will be a big deal, so I will pay attention to it first. This is a soft core science popularization article, through which you can have a partial understanding of the following knowledge: Technical principles of file storage How does Shelby define the next generation of hot storage Web3 OF is coming (not) Author: Anymose | A Soft Core Science Popularization Writer <End of Full Text>