Akave, a pioneering decentralized storage network, today announced the launch of Akave Cloud, the first decentralized data layer deployed on a dedicated Avalanche L1. Akave will revolutionize data infrastructure, providing encrypted, programmable, and verifiable storage tailored for the high demands of decentralized AI, DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks), and compliance-driven SaaS..
Unlike traditional cloud services, Akave anchors all storage logic—uploads, reads, and permissions—directly to smart contracts. Doing so guarantees that all interactions are permanently recorded on-chain with tamper-proof audit trails and gives users complete data sovereignty without sacrificing performance or usability.
Akave Cloud is already being used by teams including Intuizi, The Defiant, and Heurist.ai, and is the first decentralized storage system to integrate with Snowflake, enabling analytics teams to work with familiar tools while shifting to verifiable, decentralized infrastructure.
“What drew us to Avalanche was more than just the technology—it was the alignment. Their ecosystem shares our focus on enterprise-grade infrastructure,” said Stefaan Vervaet, CEO and Co-Founder of Akave.
Akave Cloud is live now. Developers and enterprises can get started at akave.cloud
Enterprise-Grade Performance on Avalanche
Running on its own dedicated Avalanche L1, Akave Cloud benefits from the network’s EVM compatibility, sub-second finality, and customizable chain logic, which are critical for real-time, data-intensive applications.
Key capabilities include an S3-compatible API for drop-in integration, client-side encryption for end-to-end data control, smart contract-based access control and SLA enforcement, programmable storage wallets that move logic with the data, and a multi-tier architecture that combines a hot-tier Avalanche network with cold-tier Filecoin extensions.
Akave also provides the option for hosted deployment, greatly lowering infrastructure overhead and achieving up to 80% cost savings over legacy cloud providers, yet still retaining on-chain transparency and control benefits.
A New Model for Participating in Data Infrastructure
As a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN), Akave supports a new model of participation. Contributions by anyone in the form of bandwidth, compute, or storage can be rewarded. Participants can operate nodes to provide uptime or deploy regional Avalanche L1s customized for special governance and compliance requirements.
In the future, Akave’s plan is to create sovereign data zones—community-operated L1s that satisfy local regulatory and infrastructure needs, with interoperability and auditability throughout the rest of the network.
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