EthStorage 2022 Yearly Report

5 min readDec 30, 2022

Hello EthStorage supporters!

2022 was the year EthStorage was introduced and we have had a lot of progress developing and spreading the word about EthStorage. For those who don’t know about EthStorage, here is the short introduction.

What is EthStorage?

EthStorage is a layer 2 solution that provides programmable dynamic storage based on Ethereum’s data availability. EthStorage will greatly reduce the storage cost of storing a large amount of data on Ethereum, saving the cost of 1% to 0.1%. The low cost of storing large data by EthStorage can better enable a fully decentralized network in the future. EthStorage is highly integrated with EVM and is compatible with Solidity, Remix, Hardhat, and MetaMask. The team received a research grant from the Ethereum Foundation for data availability research.

EthStorage 2022 Summary

EthStorage received a data availability research grant from Ethereum Foundation.

Data Availability (DA) is the key technology to enable Ethereum scalability, and we will work closely with the researchers from the Ethereum Foundation on the important topics of DA. One interesting topic the team is working on is the efficient algorithm for data recovery based on Danksharding. Qi Zhou, EthStorage’s founder, proposed an efficient algorithm that could increase the performance by ~4x based on Danksharding encoding.

Learn more: https://t.co/nAiD8NdoEd

Proposed EIP-4804: Web3 URL to EVM Call Message translation

EthStorage proposed the EIP-4804/W3IP-1 “Web3 URL to EVM Call Message Translation which is a translation of an HTTP-style Web3 URL to an EVM call message. Currently, reading data from Web3 relies mainly on Web3 proxy to Web3 blockchain. The translation is mostly done by the proxies such as dApp websites/node service provider/etherscan, which are out of the control of users. The standard here aims to provide a simple way for Web2 users to access the content of Web3 directly. Moreover, this standard enables interoperability with other standards already compatible with URIs, like SVG.

Learn more: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-4804-web3-url-to-evm-call-message-translation/8300

Qi Zhou, the Founder of EthStorage, Became a Member of Forbes Technology Council (Link)

Qi Zhou became a member of Forbes Technology Councils — a platform to reach/educate more international audiences about Web3 technologies including Ethereum, data availability, sharding, Web3:// access protocol, EthStorage.io, etc

This is an invite-only organization and only respected tech leaders are selected for the council based on their deep knowledge and diverse experience in the industry.

Learn more: https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Qi-Zhou-Founder-EthStorage-io/f106b543-6e4a-4d7c-a249-26b9f4b27e4c

Qi Zhou delivered a speech titled “On the Future of Web3 — Paving the Way to End-to-End Fully-Decentralized Web” at Devcon Bogota

The Ethereum Devcon 6 was held in Bogota, Colombia in October. Qi Zhou was invited to attend the conference and delivered a speech titled “On the Future of Web3 — Paving the Way to End-to-End Fully-Decentralized Web.” Here’s the full presentation video: https://youtu.be/rRI-3RV_JHw

EthStorage Played An Actively Role in Ethereum Community By Hosting and Attending Multiple Events

EthStorage hosted an after-party of SF EDCON and gave some casual talks about data availability and an after party ‘Building the Foundation for Future Web 3.0’ with Harmony and NKN as the part of the San Francisco Blockchain Week (Link)
gave a talk at Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC) (Link)
talked on “Web 3.0 Pioneers — future storage panel” with FileCoin, NKN and Bluzelle
had a talk with DappLearning on scaling Ethereum storage, especially based on latest data availability technologies
had a technical sharing of web3:// access protocol at Dali — Center of Web3 in China. You can watch the video here.
had a technical workshop named “Build #dApps Based on EthStorage and web3:// Access Protocol” at @RebaseCommunity Hackathon
gave a speech at BNB pitchday at SF
shared research with Arweave on protocol layer mechanism and ecological introduction.
was invited by DECODE to introduce the problems and real dilemmas currently faced by the Web3 industry. DECODE is the largest technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship community jointly hosted with UCBerkeley & Stanford (Link)
talked on the latest developments and applications of Ethereum Data Availability at the Web3 Industry Seminar which was invented by zkpDAO
talked on EthStorage and web3:// access protocol for Antalpha_Labs Hackerhouse event!
Attended a Web3 workshop hosted by Gitcoin about Web3 storage and Decentralized Database Solutions, ETH SF Hackathon and a the discussion hosted by permaDAO.
EthStorage will also attend Ethereum’s biggest Hackathon in Feb, 2023. See you at ETHDenver!

The gateway for web3:// access protocol became available at http://w3link.io and supports multiple chains including Arbitrum One, Nova, QuarkChain, Harmony and more.

With web3:// access protocol defined in ERC-4804 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4804, you can browse any web content hosted by smart contracts via http://w3link.io! (Link)

The protocol supports multiple blockchains including Arbitrum One, Nova, QuarkChain, Avalanche, Harmony, Fantom, BSC, Polygon and more. The full list of blockchains supported can be found here: https://docs.web3url.io/advanced-topics/web3url-gateways

You can also now browse web objects on Arbitrum smart contracts using web3://.Eg: (Link)

Please find more information about EthStorage here:

Website: https://ethstorage.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EthStorage
Discord: https://bit.ly/EthStorage_Discord
Telegram: https://t.me/ethstorage