Our digital life is data-driven. The bedrock of our digital future is trustworthy, resilient data storage. Today, that market is dominated by centralized cloud services - Dropbox, AWS, Google, and iCloud know more about me than I do. But this model comes with inherent risks and downsides: censorship, data loss, and exploitation by profit-seeking platforms. Ultimately, you don’t own your data and someone else is holding the keys.

Wait a minute… this sounds like a case for…. DECENTRALIZATION!

Enter decentralized storage (DStorage)—a web3 concept aiming to shift data custody away from big tech and back to you. Today, let's take a peek at the first and most foundational name in the game: IPFS.

IPFS: The Backbone of a Distributed…