Introducing Akave Cloud: A New Standard for Verifiable Data Ownership

Akave Cloud launches as the first Avalanche L1-based storage platform—offering S3 compatibility, onchain control, and verifiable, sovereign data access.
Stefaan Vervaet
July 7, 2025

Introducing Akave Cloud

Today, we’re proud to launch Akave Cloud ; the first enterprise-grade decentralized storage layer built on an Avalanche L1.

Akave Cloud delivers everything teams need to store, manage, and access data at scale: full S3 compatibility, onchain access control, and verifiable storage, all without the burden of running your own infrastructure.

Whether you're building AI systems, analytics pipelines, or data-driven apps, Akave Cloud is the fastest way to get started with programmable, sovereign storage.

Why Akave Cloud

Legacy cloud was built for static files, closed systems, and siloed access. But data today is dynamic. It’s trained into models, streamed into agents, queried across borders, and monetized in real-time. For legacy infrastructure to keep up, it needs sovereignty, programmability and verifiability built-in.

Akave Cloud delivers:

  • Up to 80% cost savings
    Eliminate egress fees. Reduce redundancy overhead. Pay only for what you store and use as often as you need.
  • S3 compatibility
    Plug into Snowflake, AI pipelines, analytics workflows, and backup tools, no refactor required.
  • Verifiable audit trails
    Every action is recorded on a cryptographically secure ledger and stored immutable. You can prove what happened, when, and by whom.
  • Smart contract-based access control
    Define retention rules, usage policies, monetization terms, and enforce them onchain.
  • No vendor lock-in
    Your data is encrypted client-side, stored immutably, and portable by default. Data can move across regions and servers, while maintaining data integrity.
  • Self-sovereign by design
    You control the keys. You own the policy. Nothing moves unless you sign-off, and there’s no reliance on third parties.

How It Works

The Akave network is built for verifiability, programmability and performance. Here’s how Akave Cloud works:

  1. Upload + Ingress
    Upload data through our SDK, CLI, or S3-compatible endpoint. Data is encrypted before it ever leaves your machine.
  2. Chunking + Encoding
    Data is split, erasure-coded, and optimized for highly durable and resilient distributed storage.
  3. Decentralized Storage
    Files are stored across a network of vendors, orchestrated by Akave Cloud with its own dedicated Avalanche L1 for performance and verifiability.
  4. Onchain Access Control
    Access policies, retention rules, and monetization logic are enforced via smart contracts, not a central admin panel.
  5. Geozoning + App-Specific Subnets
    Spin up regional subnets for data localization or launch custom subnets tailored to your app’s throughput and compliance needs.

Already in Use Across AI, Analytics, and Media

Akave Cloud isn’t theoretical — it’s already in production with early adopters:

  • Heurist.ai → enabling data provenance of AI models with verifiable storage
  • TheDefiant.io → preserving archives with censorship-resistant infrastructure
  • Intuizi → reclaiming data ownership by integrating Akave into Snowflake data pipelines

Leveraging Decentralized Storage Networks

Akave Cloud is also part of the Filecoin community and integrated with the Filecoin network. While Akave Cloud delivers high-performance enterprise-grade, programmable storage for active data, it can write and commit cold or archive data to Filecoin storage providers; ensuring durability, transparency, and cryptographic proof of storage across time. This integration enables enterprises to combine fast, sovereign storage with long-term durability provided by the Filecoin network.

The Future of Storage Starts Here

Akave Cloud isn’t just a better version of the cloud — it’s a new foundation for programmable, verifiable data infrastructure. For teams building in AI, analytics, and beyond, it offers the speed of Web2 with the control and transparency of Web3.

See It in Action

How to Engage

If you’re an enterprise

  • Migrate from cloud and free your data
  • Cut costs and regain compliance

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Whether you're scaling your AI infrastructure, handling sensitive records, or modernizing your cloud stack, Akave Cloud is ready to plug in. It feels familiar, but works fundamentally better.