Akave: AI Trust Unlocked
The Role of Data Provenance in Decentralized AI
End-to-end data provenance is the foundation for realizing truly decentralized AI. In a world where data is the lifeblood of innovation, ensuring its authenticity, integrity, and ownership is paramount.
Welcome to Akave, where we’re redefining data management with our pioneering on-chain data lakes, enabling the future of decentralized AI.
When it Comes to Data, Web3 is Still Built on Trust
Despite the promise of decentralization, most of Web3 still relies heavily on Web2 infrastructure. This means your data is often controlled by centralized entities, limiting transparency and ownership.
The status quo of data storage hasn’t changed. Isn’t it about time that it does?
At Akave, we challenge this status quo, believing in a future where data is verifiable, immutable, and truly owned by the user.
So, what’s stopping adoption of decentralized infrastructure?
Current decentralized storage solutions face challenges such as poor UX/UI, complex interfaces, and lack of cloud feature parity. We want to fix that!
Akave’s Unique Approach in this space
Web2 Infrastructure Feature Parity:
- S3 Compatible Cloud Interfaces — like our own Akave O
- Structured and Unstructured Data Lakes
- Erasure Coding
- On-Chain Storage Marketplace
- Data Management Policies
- Hot to Cold Storage Data Pipelines
- Storage Tiering
- IPFS Data Structure across all tiers
- Filecoin Integration
- And more…
However, addressing these gaps is not enough. New architectures are needed.
The explosion of AI workloads and decentralized computing has highlighted the need for large-scale, verifiable data architectures.
At Akave, we enable the power of data lakes to offer a robust and flexible data management solution. By using a decentralized approach built on the Filecoin infrastructure, Akave ensures that data is not only stored efficiently but also verifiable and immutable. Our data lakes enable seamless data movement, secure storage, and makes data ready for your comprehensive analytics, and advanced machine learning demands.
By leveraging blockchain technology, Akave ensures scalable, secure, and tamper-proof data storage, enabling organizations to harness the full potential of their data while driving innovation and smarter decision-making.
Akave is Re-Architecting Data Lakes for Decentralized AI
Akave’s Decentralized Data Lakes are the First to Unlock:
Faster Local Performance: Imagine having a seamless, localized storage option right where your compute stacks are, at the edge — closer to the user. No more waiting — just instant access to your data when and where you need it.
Reduced Egress Cost: Centralized clouds like AWS nearly hold your data hostage by charging exorbitant fees for moving data out. Akave offers significantly lower egress costs and allows you to move your data freely.
Immutable and Verifiable Storage: Akave ensures end-to-end data provenance, data integrity, and immutability through ZK Proofs and content addressable indexes.
Choice Through an Open Marketplace: Benefit from competitive pricing and superior service offerings through Akave’s open marketplace. Choose from a variety of storage providers to find the perfect fit for your needs.
Constant Data Visibility: With Akave, you have continuous visibility into your data. Our data provenance layer, stored on Filecoin’s InterPlanetary Consensus (IPC), ensures you always know the status and history of your data, enhancing transparency and trust.
Meet the visionaries building Akave:
Stefaan Vervaet (CEO): A visionary leader with a long standing background in storage, the former Head of Network Growth at Protocol Labs and Founder of the Decentralized Storage Alliance. Stefaan is known for his strategic insight and network-building expertise.
Angelo Schalley (CTO): The technical backbone of Akave, Angelo is an enterprise and solution architecture expert with extensive experience in enterprise architecture, infrastructure and decentralized storage technologies. His expertise ensures the technological foundation of Akave is solid and future-proof.
Daniel Leon (COO): Responsible for driving network growth and strategic partnerships, Daniel has a proven track record of scaling enterprises and decentralized networks, most recently leading the Decentralized Storage Alliance. His role involves overseeing company operations and ensuring long-term strategic goals are met.
Long-Term Vision: The Data Oasis
We believe that end-to-end data provenance is the key to truly decentralized AI.
Akave aims to become the foundation for any company aiming to perform comprehensive analytics, and advanced machine learning on their data
By supporting multi-chain data placement and movement across different storage tiers, zones, and geo locations, and leveraging Filecoin’s InterPlanetary Consensus (IPC), we aim to create a high-throughput, low-cost, decentralized data management solution, ensuring data provenance and integrity.
We’re building the data oasis in the digital desert.
Network Effects — Build with us!
Akave will release a token in 2025 to incentivize the horizontal scaling of the network and drive more adoption. Node providers will earn yield by providing data services and securing the network, with the Akave DAO managing the incentives.
Build with us and become a node provider to help shape the future of decentralized storage. Sign up for early access to our testnet releasing in Q3 2024.
Join us 🔥
Stay tuned for more updates and join us as we make waves in the decentralized storage space. For more information, check out the Akave teaser site including a short demo on how to move data into decentralized storage in less than a minute and follow us on social media.
