Shelby: Decentralized Storage Designed to Serve
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| author | Goren, Guy Hariri, Andrew Hartley, Timothy D. R. Kappiyoor, Ravi Spiegelman, Alexander Zmick, David |
| author_facet | Goren, Guy Hariri, Andrew Hartley, Timothy D. R. Kappiyoor, Ravi Spiegelman, Alexander Zmick, David |
| contents | Existing decentralized storage protocols fall short of the service required by real-world applications. Their throughput, latency, cost-effectiveness, and availability are insufficient for demanding workloads such as video streaming, large-scale data analytics, or AI training. As a result, Web3 data-intensive applications are predominantly dependent on centralized infrastructure.
Shelby is a high-performance decentralized storage protocol designed to meet demanding needs. It achieves fast, reliable access to large volumes of data while preserving decentralization guarantees. The architecture reflects lessons from Web2 systems: it separates control and data planes, uses erasure coding with low replication overhead and minimal repair bandwidth, and operates over a dedicated backbone connecting RPC and storage nodes. Reads are paid, which incentivizes good performance. Shelby also introduces a novel auditing protocol that provides strong cryptoeconomic guarantees without compromising performance, a common limitation of other decentralized solutions. The result is a decentralized system that brings Web2-grade performance to production-scale, read-intensive Web3 applications. |
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arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2506_19233 |
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| spellingShingle | Shelby: Decentralized Storage Designed to Serve Goren, Guy Hariri, Andrew Hartley, Timothy D. R. Kappiyoor, Ravi Spiegelman, Alexander Zmick, David Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Existing decentralized storage protocols fall short of the service required by real-world applications. Their throughput, latency, cost-effectiveness, and availability are insufficient for demanding workloads such as video streaming, large-scale data analytics, or AI training. As a result, Web3 data-intensive applications are predominantly dependent on centralized infrastructure. Shelby is a high-performance decentralized storage protocol designed to meet demanding needs. It achieves fast, reliable access to large volumes of data while preserving decentralization guarantees. The architecture reflects lessons from Web2 systems: it separates control and data planes, uses erasure coding with low replication overhead and minimal repair bandwidth, and operates over a dedicated backbone connecting RPC and storage nodes. Reads are paid, which incentivizes good performance. Shelby also introduces a novel auditing protocol that provides strong cryptoeconomic guarantees without compromising performance, a common limitation of other decentralized solutions. The result is a decentralized system that brings Web2-grade performance to production-scale, read-intensive Web3 applications. |
| title | Shelby: Decentralized Storage Designed to Serve |
| topic | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19233 |