Active Archive
Archive data once, access it whenever – forever
Akord’s blockchain-powered digital vaults make archiving simple. With permanent on-chain storage you only pay once, reducing TCO and making your data instantly available at no extra cost.
With Akord's vaults
Hot storage accessibility for the price of cold
Public cloud services can take 48hrs to 'rehydrate' your archive online, and they'll charge you for it. In Akord, your data is instantly accessible for no extra cost. You pay upfront once for storage, making it incredibly cost-effective over never-ending monthly subscriptions.
Permanently owned data gives you control
Built on a permanent storage blockchain, our vaults deliver a permanent record of immutable data. No one can alter or delete your archive. An endowment ensures your archive's storage for 200 years (at least). The protocols that enable this are built on open source code – forget about vendor lock in.
Secure data on-chain and increase security
Our vaults ensure your data's integrity by storing data on a decentralised public blockchain. Private data is protected with quantum resistant end-to-end encryption, and you own the keys. Through a decentralised architecture, you can eliminate ransomware threats, as data is replicated across dozens of nodes worldwide.
Active Archive features
Archive data in an encrypted vault and benefit from quantum resistant end-to-end encryption. Archive, collaborate, message and share within this secure context.
Data is replicated across hundreds of Arweave's nodes across the globe. A hacker would need to capture data on all nodes simultaneously in order to hold it to ransomware.
Invite team members to your vaults and assign them with permissions to allow them to contribute or view only.
Any team member can collaborate and contribute to your archiving process through our intuitive web app, as well as leverage collaborative features like chat and note creation.
Within Akord Explorer, an app living on Arweave's permaweb, you'll be able to search through tags and by scoping to date ranges of creation, upload and modified date.
Every Akord vault comes with it's own timeline where every event is timestamped on the Arweave blockchain, making it the ultimate auditable proof of events.
Cumulative cost of 1 GB over 200 years
Doesn’t include egress or contract management costs.
Assumes fixed relative pricing.
Sources: AWS, Azure, Google, Arweave Fees, Hunter Lampson
Stop renting your data, own it.
Keep it simple – pay upfront and know your total cost of ownership from day 1.
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A better UX for permanent file storage than anything I've really seen yet.
What a web3 app should look like. It just works.
The Dropbox and Whatsapp of Web3, but more secure!
This protocol [Akord] allows you to harness the best tools that are being built.
A better UX for permanent file storage than anything I've really seen yet.
What a web3 app should look like. It just works.
The Dropbox and Whatsapp of Web3, but more secure!
This protocol [Akord] allows you to harness the best tools that are being built.
FAQ
The Arweave blockchain is designed to store data in perpetuity. Through an endowment, which your storage payment goes towards, it can continue to pay miners in the network to preserve your data indefinitely. As Sam Williams, founder of Arweave, says:
"[Arweave is] a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to truly store data forever – for the very first time."
We are currently building a fully decentralised app, deployed directly on Arweave: Akord Explorer.
Explorer will be able to find any data you sent to Arweave through Akord.
In practical terms, this means once the app itself is deployed on Arweave it will also be permanently available. Indeed every release of the app would be available as well.
So even if Akord, the company, stops working on the development of the app, Akord Explorer itself will continue to live on the permaweb.
You will be able to connect to Akord Explorer with your normal Akord app login details and find all your uploads.
You cannot delete files from the Arweave blockchain. This would be in opposition to its core mission of providing perpetual access – a truly permanent storage system.
However, included in the Arweave protocol standards is ANS-106: Do-Not-Store Request, which provides a protocol and transaction format to make a request to miners to not store data. As outlined:
"There might be various reasons why persons or entities might wish to remove some data from the network. These include privacy, government regulation and copyright violations."
Within Akord, you can 'Revoke files', which moves them from your 'Files' tab in a vault into a separate "Revoked files" area. This would prevent anyone from renaming, moving, downloading or viewing the file.
The file would continue to exist on the Arweave blockchain, but completely encrypted and essentially useless. Still, once a file is uploaded, regardless of whether it's revoked, it will continue to use your storage allowance.
Always carefully consider the nature of permanent storage before uploading files, as not all data will be suitable.
YES!
Your payment goes into a storage endowment. It's like the principle upon which the interest goes towards paying the future storage of your data. Indefinitely.
Read more about the Arweave storage endowment here.
To break it down into what this means in a very practical way: if you have 1 GB of storage on Akord and you upload 1 GB's worth of photos, you never have to pay again to keep those photos on Akord and on the Arweave blockchain. Even if you don't login to Akord for many many years, that data will be preserved and waiting for you.
You can pay in fiat currency, we don't require that you hold any cryptocurrency like $AR to pay for storage.
But we can also accept stablecoin payments like USDC or USDT if you wish to pay with cryptocurrency, just let us know.
Akord is constantly working towards making sure we and our users can be compliant with regulations.
In regards to GDPR, we have published a detailed article explaining the key issues to consider and our position on the subject.
No, never.
Once uploaded to Arweave, your data will be permanently accessible whenever you need it. It will never cost you anything to retrieve your data once you have paid for its storage.
Akord Explorer is an application that will be deployed itself on Arweave, meaning it will live alongside your data indefinitely. With your backup phrase you always be able to connect to Explorer and find everything you ever uploaded to Arweave via Akord.
This guarantees that you will always be able to access your data for free regardless of what happens to Akord as an operating company or our application used to publish data to Arweave.
Seconds, or even milliseconds.
It depends on some variables like your connection to the internet and your hardware if you're decrypting data, as well as if the network is congested.
But unlike many centralised cloud archival solutions, you will not have to wait for hours or even days to get access to your data.
When you archive files with Akord, we cache those files before sending them to Arweave. If the network drops the file for any reason, we automatically put it into a queue and attempt to repost it later.
Get all this info and more product info from our documentation pages.
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