Hey Banyan frens,
We have some exciting news to share: Our new filesystem, BanyanFS, is now ready for public access!
This marks a new chapter for Banyan as we continue to build solutions that give users better privacy, access, & control over their data. 1/
Come join our Spaces w/
@ionet_official
Wednesday, March 6th @ 1pm EST
We'll talk about our partnership, crypto x AI, and a bunch of other stuff. Good vibes only.
Hey frens!
We are stoked to announce that Banyan MVP is now in Open Beta 🎉💻
This is the first enterprise-grade file storage solution to be built on the
@Filecoin
network 🏆
What does success for
@Filecoin
look like? According to
@jnthnvctr
it's "how do you build open services to compete with the
#cloud
?"
Filecoin is the foundation for new companies like
@BanyanComputer
to innovate, and offer secure + affordable ways to store data
Looking for a more
#decentralized
version of the
#cloud
? ☁️
Try our Open Beta MVP for free + let us know what you think! 💻🚀
TL;DR Banyan is built on top of
@Filecoin
+ on a mission to offer more
#secure
and decentralized file storage to customers w/ big data requirements
Decentralizing the Cloud
@_laudiacay
; Founder & CEO of
@banyancomputer
🗓️ 3/2, 2:00 - 2:30 PM
Learn more about Banyan’s technology, including how it uses the Filecoin network’s infrastructure and robust community of storage providers to protect user data without compromising…
Hey frens,
We have exciting news to share! 📢
Banyan is teaming up with
@ExpansoIO
to explore partnership opportunities and ways we can expand our offerings
✅ banyan's data is hot (e.g. retrievable)
✅ banyan's UX looks good
✅ we are proud to serve it
closed UX beta live- if you *should* be on the list and don't get an email within the hour, email us.
otherwise, you can access the open beta next week when Google approves our ToS.
Want to hear more about what we're building at Banyan & our long-term vision for
#decentralized
file storage?
Check out our latest podcast episode feat. Banyan's founder & CEO
@_laudiacay
🎙️
S/O to
@FilFoundation
for hosting us! 🙌🚀
in case you're worried about us being decentralized / censorable, here is a clarification- we heard multiple concerns
we are >= filecoin-with-replication level of read-censorship-proofing, which is probably higher than arweave's level
Exciting updates! We finished roadmapping to take us from beta to GA.
What can you expect between now and February?
December (mostly done, merging and debugging):
- fixing beta bugs (thank you all for breaking it <3)
- finish our spiffy new super-optimized BanyanFS spec…
A fresh and enlightening conversation with
@_laudiacay
from
@BanyanComputer
and
@mala
is now live on the DWeb Decoded feed.
They touch on the new Banyan Beta (check it out), where the crypto value flows are right now, and what decentralized tools need to do to get enterprise…
Thrilled to be featured in October's
@Filecoin
&
@IPFS
Ecosystem Roundup! If you missed it, catch the recording to hear from
@degentrix
on what we're building at Banyan and what's coming up next...
If you want the jargon: Banyan is highly-resilient-and-redundant, highly-private, local-first, easily-usable, and mostly-trustless/anti-censorship decentralized storage.
Tl;dr? We're the correct way for you (a startup, a small business, or a user) to do decentralized storage.
We’re assessing ways users can access
@BacalhauProject
through Banyan’s UI so they can take advantage of fast, cost-efficient, and secure computation
This allows our customers to utilize local compute and run CoD jobs through a
#decentralized
network of storage providers
you hate to see it
(google drive losing your data because they don't obsessively replicate / verify it between all clients and end servers, + tracking it with zk proofs submitted daily at risk of collateral slashing )
(banyan fixes this)
Our
#1
thing we do is building shit that works well for (paying) customers. So if shit isn't working well for you, you should let us know. And we will build shit that does work well for you.
Next year: we're integrating with EVERYONE, building a cryptographically incentivized and fully-decentralized CDN so you can use Banyan for publishing and distribution, and building all the "Coming Soon" features listed above.
Also, accredited investors should reach out. ;) ttyl
However, Banyan was originally founded because we wanted to build censorship-proof cloud storage. Concretely, the problems you're trying to solve there are:
1. snooping
2. third-party editing or losing data
3. getting censored
1 and 2 are solved by encryption and CIDs.
Got plans tonight?
@EthereumDenver
Come hangout with us at the
@FilFoundation
Orbit Ecosystem Showcase & Happy Hour! 🚀
Banyan's founder & CEO
@_laudiacay
will be giving a talk at 6:40pm MST
Link to register:
We cover everything from end-to-end encryption, journaling/versioning, content addressing, our relationship to
@filecoin
, upcoming features, and more. Plus there’s a ton of technical info to nerd out to 🤓
Check it out and let us know what you think 🔗
Come join our Spaces with
@ionet_official
and
@FilFoundation
Today (March 14th) at 5pm EST
We're going to talk about opportunities for users when it comes to decentralized storage & compute +
#DePIN
Hope to see you there! 🚀
Over the past several months, our developers have been working hard to build BanyanFS from scratch. Why? We needed a filesystem that was distributed, encrypted, auditable, and ready for P2P collaboration. 2/
Let's go point by point.
1) We'll start with resiliency/redundancy: we bring your data to multiple Filecoin SPs, who seal it as cold archival storage onto the Filecoin network or store a hot copy locally for you to retrieve whenever you want it.
This is just the beginning. The BanyanFS roadmap includes seamless FUSE-mounting, UnixFS backwards compatibility, symlinking and virtually mounting external filesystems, more complex hierarchical filesystem permissioning, and signed journaling/audit logging tools. 14/
No third party, not even Banyan or its SPs, will be able to access your data. Users are the only ones with access to their own private key(s) and they alone have the power to set permissions and decrypt files they store with Banyan. 6/
And what does this mean for Filecoin storage providers? That's easy! Paid deals, done quick. Affiliate programs to turn your sales leads into paying happy customers with a product you didn't have to build.
Sign up on our website to join the infrastructure provider and…
We’re going to be dropping more features in the next few months now that our MVP is ready. Stay tuned, and in the meantime, check out our latest blog post for a more detailed overview of how BanyanFS works: 17/
In mid-2024, we'll also be activating our hot data proofs protocol and support for PoDSI, both built atop FVM. Your data will be doubly-protected by aggressive SLAs and blockchain-based proofs, whether it's hot or cold.
We currently have 4 SPs under contract on 3 continents, and have a waitlist containing several more geographies and many large, mature SP operations. Soon, we'll add the ability for advanced users to configure where their data is stored and where it's replicated.
Coming soon 👀 🔮
We are in our final stage before an official release to General Availability (GA). Here’s what's in the works:
🗃️ More file types
✅ S3 compatibility
🧑💻
#SDK
for our dev frens
📱 Mobile app 📱
🔥 Hot storage proofs
3 is solved by... Filecoin and proofs! If Banyan refuses to serve your data outside of our ToS, we're in violation of our own SLA. If we are forced to drop you as a customer for any reason, the deals Banyan made for you are still secured by Filecoin's collateralization mechanism.
What does this mean for YOU, the user over the next few months (Q1 2024)?
- stable, functional, easy cloud storage
- great user experiences
- seamless virtual cloud filesystem on your server, NAS, or laptop, eventually with automated backups, intelligent cloud syncing, and…
Price optimization, data ownership and security, is what will steal marketshare away from centralized cloud providers
Thanks for the coverage
@newsbtc
!
5) Finally, "mostly-trustless/anti-censorship".
Why don't we say decentralized? Well, we're not, and we don't believe we need to be. When it comes to storage, taking responsibility is a basic part of the product. You're paying for our SLAs and guardianship of your data.
If a copy goes down, Banyan seamlessly manages re-replication and load-balancing for you. All of our storage providers are vetted, under contract with our US entity, and running our monitoring software- we're aggressive about ensuring they do not drop or fail to serve data.
3) Local-first? What's that? Check this wonderful blog post out:
The tagline: "you own your data, in spite of the cloud".
We modified WNFS to create a decentralized-cloud-friendly data format where users keep local control over cloud storage.
Banyan's core data processing library is a "light client" for decentralized storage. It handles encryption, identity, versioning, chunking, cryptographic verification of modifications, and content addressing.
You can reach out directly to the miner to get a copy of your encrypted data- your keys, root hash, data CID manifests, and miner IDs are still on every device you've used Banyan on. You'll need to figure out new hosting yourself, and new deal renewal, but you won't lose data.
ACL: Natively, Filecoin does not have access controls- anyone could download your encrypted data. This is unacceptable to many customers. So Banyan built a Kerberos-like system on UCAN to lock down who can download your data. Eventually, we'd love to decentralize this service!
It's extremely edge-friendly if all you want to do is validate that even petabytes of your data is stored safely, with plans to reconstruct it one day on a bigger device: you can reconstruct all your content by locally storing your drive's root hash and key (a few bytes).
Anyway. That's Banyan's current product along with some immediate roadmap items. We're excited to hear what you think about it and how we can improve it to better serve the data storage flows you and your business need.
Integration's easy for everyone. Right now we have a webUI (like Dropbox), and a CLI that acts like rsync.
Soon, we'll release an S3 endpoint, a Dropbox SmartSync-style backup service (for servers and personal devices), and a mobile app.
4) Easily usable for everyone:
No crypto payments- and that's a feature: Our payments are done through Stripe, in USD.
We have simple and understandable bundles and pay-as-you-go plans.
Our SLAs make it so you don't have to stress about balancing decentralization with risk.
E2E: Banyan stores encrypted blocks. When you publish data, we issue a device key to ~the internet~. When you ask Banyan to process your data for you (like with our upcoming S3 endpoint or compute features), you issue a decryption key to Banyan.
Banyan's SkinnyFS is an interactive lightweight view of which files you have and their metadata- load only what you need to work on, let the cloud handle the rest, trustlessly. This is how our web client and SDK are able to gracefully navigate multi-terabyte encrypted drives.
The final piece is our SDK, designed to bring Banyan into DePIN / edge devices, dapps, and more. We're standardizing things internally, and can't wait to partner with protocols to bring sovereign storage to their users. We're currently dogfooding it in our web frontend!
2) Let's talk Privacy. Your data is encrypted before it leaves your device. We issue multiple device keys to your "identity", which is what logs into the Banyan platform. We support encapsulated encryption to do cross-device and cross-identity sharing.
Counting down the days to
#LabWeek
? Don't miss out on the cozy ☕️ coffee break we're co-hosting with
@glifio
. RSVP now and secure your spot for snacks, warm bevs, and excellent conversation.
are you a woman in tech in the NYC area? come join us tonight for our first-ever event to celebrate our impending launch with tacos, wine, and cooooool gaaaaaaals.
Important to note for OB:
🌐 Please only use
#Chrome
or
#Firefox
browsers at this time
🧑💻 You’ll need a
@Google
account (OAuth) to access Banyan. We’re working on alternative login methods and will share details soon
We manage all these integrations with one core interoperable set of data formats, a tiny/simple API, and one Rust library that gets cross-compiled into everything under the sun. It's easy for us to repurpose this into anything our customers need for using their data with ease.
BanyanFS is the backbone of our product and plays a vital role in our tech stack. It provides edge data formatting and indexing, and pulls data from local filesystems into a web3-ready format so users can collaborate while the data continues to be provably stored/secured. 4/
🚀 Meet
@_laudiacay
, a trailblazer in the decentralized storage space, at the
#FILDevSummit24
in Denver!
With a background as an engineer at
@protocollabs
, Claudia is now pioneering
@BanyanComputer
, a next-gen decentralized file storage system designed for web2 enterprises. 🌐…
#Decentralization
and privacy is important to us. It’s at the core of what we do. You (and only you) should be able to access & control your data 🗄️🔐
Try Open Beta for free and let us know what you think! 🚀👇
Location-agnostic storage: You can store data anywhere and work on it anywhere. BanyanFS allows you to use any actual storage backend (local disk, cloud provider, a spare older computer, etc). 9/
Cloud is a rapidly growing
#decentralized
computing network that enables
#AI
/ML engineers to access distributed
#GPUs
optimized for low latency and high-demand workloads, all at up to 90% less cost than centralized on-demand cloud services
A content-addressed and chunked format allows data to be sharded and moved easily and verifiably without disrupting the UX (all a user needs is their metadata kit). This format provides increased flexibility over traditional storage solutions. 8/
no babe ur +2688 -1940 line PR is perfect the reasonably-sized ones scare me
anyway, banyan metadata bug patched, fix will be deployed shortly... GA is a few short features away :)
Some key benefits of BanyanFS include:
End-to-end encryption: Files uploaded through Banyan’s UI are automatically E2E encrypted. This goes above and beyond other encryption techniques that both centralized and decentralized solutions offer. 5/