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What is Curium?

Curium is a decentralized storage network and cloud solution for both the Web 3.0 and Web 2.0 ecosystems. It is built on Polkadot's Substrate framework and provides a unique incentive layer for the IPFS protocol. By utilizing blockchain technology, Curium enhances security, privacy, performance, and ownership of data.

Curium Roadmap

The mainnet of Curium was launched on September 1, 2021, and currently has a storage capacity of around 2,200 PetaBytes provided by over 8,000 individual nodes.

Curium has already integrated with many blockchains and offers a fully decentralized storage layer for Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Solana, Near, Elrond, Heco, and others. In the future, Curium plans to implement its storage services for even more networks to provide storage solutions for every ecosystem.

Some of the biggest blockchain projects, such as Uniswap, AAVE, or Polkadot Apps, already use Curium Network to store their data or host their websites and dApps using Curium's infrastructure.

In the future, Curium Network aims to provide even more services for the Web3 and Web2 landscape, allowing projects and companies to utilize and build on its platform. Curium's architecture also has the capability of supporting a decentralized computing layer and building a decentralized cloud ecosystem.

Use Cases of Curium

• Providing the technical infrastructure for the Metaverse
• Minting, storing, and exchanging NFTs in a fully decentralized manner
• Hosting websites, dApps, video streaming, and more
• Web 3.0 gaming and decentralized social media
• Personal cloud storage for accessing data from anywhere
• File sharing and streaming services

CRU Token Utilities

The CRU token is a utility token within the Curium ecosystem that serves various purposes. The most important utilities and functionalities of the CRU token are listed below:

• Staking to maintain GPoS consensus
• Collateral for storage providers to offer storage services
• Used to cover transaction fees
• Purchase storage or other cloud services
• On-Chain governance mechanism

Try Curium's Storage Solution

Yes, you can enjoy the benefits of our network in many ways. For example, you can upload files to a fully decentralized Web 3.0 cloud solution on crustfiles.io, where you can keep your data safe and always accessible. Just sign in with your Crypto wallet and enjoy storing your files in the easiest and most secure way possible.

For NFT lovers, artists, and collectors, we also offer a decentralized NFT market platform where users can mint, store, and display their NFTs on a 100% decentralized infrastructure. Feel free to try out our NFT dedicated application on switchswap.io.

Comparison with Traditional Cloud Services

Compared to traditional and centralized storage providers like AWS, Google, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud, Curium Network offers many advantages due to its decentralized infrastructure:

Availability: Curium eliminates the "Single-Point-of-Failure" dilemma and the risk of downtime by creating an average of 80 replicas distributed over individual nodes in the network. This ensures a high level of redundancy to keep your data always available and accessible.

Security: Curium has high resistance against DNS hijack attempts or DDOS attacks. Additionally, all data is encrypted by the IPFS protocol and Curium's TEE mechanism. Not even node operators or any other centralized organization can access or tamper with user data.

Performance: Due to the presence of many replicas on numerous nodes worldwide, you can retrieve your files without any server-side bottlenecks. Data can be sourced and processed from multiple nodes simultaneously, resulting in significant performance benefits.

Costs: Cloud storage costs on Curium Network are only 25-50% of the costs compared to traditional Web 2.0 products on a centralized infrastructure (compared to AWS S3 Cloud Server).

Start Mining Curium

Curium network is a public and completely permissionless network that anyone can join at any time.

Thanks to our MPoW (Meaningful Proof of Work) mechanism, there is no need for expensive and energy-consuming GPUs or high-end CPUs. All you need is a reliable internet connection, a CPU with TEE functionality, and some free storage.