Darwin encrypts your files, splits them into chunks and replicates each chunk across nodes on the network. You pay once, in DARWIN, when you upload.
Darwin is a network for storing files. Instead of sitting on one server, each file is spread across many computers on the network, called nodes, and read back straight from them.
Your file is encrypted before it's stored.
It's split into chunks.
Each chunk is replicated across the nodes closest to it.
You get an address to find it again. Private files also get a data map: the key that opens them.
The Darwin viewer collects a file's chunks from the nodes, right in the browser. Files can also be fetched through the API or with the Darwin client.
Storage is paid in DARWIN on Robinhood Chain. The network quotes the price before you pay.
Readable only by whoever holds its data map, the key you get at upload.
Share the address, and it can be opened.
Open to anyone and shown in the public index.
Stored files can't be deleted from the network. A private file can't be opened without its data map.
Uploads from the website go through Darwin's upload service, which sees each file while storing it.
Anyone can see on the chain what a wallet paid for storage, and when.
Upload from the website with your wallet, or build on the API.