Use Cases

Long-term data retention with instant accessibility

Media companies, video editors, post-production teams

Traditional cold storage like AWS Glacier is slow and expensive to access. Hot storage is too costly for large, long-term archives.

• O3-Compatible Decentralized Storage: Store high-res media at a fraction of the cost while maintaining fast retrieval.
• Tiered Storage Design: Content auto-distributes based on access frequency.
• Redundant, Verifiable Backups: Built-in fault tolerance and auditability.
• Cost-Effective Scaling: Pay less as you scale more.

Media teams get fast access to massive archives—without burning through budgets or waiting hours for retrieval.

Scalable, high-throughput storage for training large language models

AI labs, ML teams, research orgs

Training models on centralized clouds creates performance bottlenecks and soaring costs.

• Parallel Fetching via Distributed Nodes: No more single-node bottlenecks.
• Immutable Data Sets: Ensure reproducibility and provenance of training data.
  
• Plug-and-Play with Existing Pipelines: Compatible with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and other tools via O3 APIs.
• Fault-Tolerant for Large Jobs: Training doesn’t break when a node goes down.

Decentralized storage that actually accelerates AI—less latency, lower cost, and zero compromise on performance.

Securing sensitive files in hostile environments

Journalists, nonprofits, whistleblower platforms

Centralized platforms can be pressured into takedowns or surveillance.

• Distributed Global Infrastructure: No single point of failure or control.
• End-to-End Encryption: Files can’t be intercepted or snooped.
• Onchain Timestamping: Prove integrity and origin with blockchain-backed audit trails.
• Immutable Storage: No unauthorized changes, ever.

 Trustworthy, tamper-proof storage that empowers free expression and critical reporting.

Regulatory-compliant, geo-redundant backups

Financial services, health tech, regulated industries

Legacy backup systems are expensive, hard to audit, and prone to single-region failure.

• Multi-Region Replication by Default: Instant resilience across continents.
• Daily Auto-Backups: No manual ops required.
  
• Immutable Snapshots: Beat ransomware with verifiable, locked backups.
• Fast API-Based Restores: Restore in seconds, not hours.

High availability, compliance, and peace of mind—at a fraction of traditional cloud costs.

Global video storage & distribution

Streaming platforms, UGC apps, Web3 media

Centralized CDNs get expensive and can restrict content in certain regions.

• Globally Distributed Storage Network: Files are replicated close to users.
• Automatic Tiering for Hot/Cold Content: Optimizes speed without manual setup.
• Seamless Media Pipeline Integration: Thumbnails, encoding, metadata all supported.‍
• Lower Infra Overhead: Scale up user uploads without scaling up bills.

Decentralized content delivery, lower cost, and global reliability from day one.

Real-time analytics and batch processing over large datasets

Data engineering teams, analytics platforms

Siloed, expensive, and slow-to-query data lakes are a major bottleneck.

• O3-Compatible APIs for Existing Tools: Use Akave with Spark, Presto, and more.
• Verifiable Storage with Proofs: Audit compliance and integrity of datasets.
• Edge-Caching for Speed: Hot data stays near compute nodes.‍
• Up to 80% Cost Reduction: Store and query more for less.

Data lakes that actually scale—with speed, control, and full verifiability.

Decentralized data control with policy-based access

Governments, consortiums, privacy-focused orgs

 Cloud vendors often lock you in with proprietary formats and opaque pricing.

• RBAC + Delegated Access: Define fine-grained, onchain policies.
• Your Keys = Your Data: No third-party admin privileges.
• Transparent Pricing: No hidden egress or lock-in fees.‍
• Full Auditability: Every file action can be cryptographically verified.

Real control over your data—whether you’re managing health records or national archives.

Cross-chain dApps and protocols needing persistent storage

DePIN networks, cross-chain dApps, oracle networks

Onchain data is limited. Off-chain storage often breaks composability and integrity.

• Blockchain-Aware Storage: Native support for storing merkle roots, proofs, logs
• Composable APIs for On/Off-Chain Logic: Connect seamlessly with smart contracts
• Immutable Audit Trails: Anchor data to chains like Ethereum, Filecoin‍
• DePIN-Ready: Ideal for decentralized infrastructure nodes

Build systems that span chains—Akave keeps your data composable, verifiable, and omnipresent.