Shelby
Shelby is a decentralized hot storage network on Aptos for serving streaming, AI, and read-heavy workloads with low-latency reads.
What is Shelby?
Shelby is a decentralized hot storage network for streaming media, AI inference, and other read-heavy workloads. Erasure coding handles durability, a dedicated fiber backbone keeps latency low, and a hybrid auditing scheme verifies data availability. Aptos coordinates metadata and payments off the data path, while reads are metered to align incentives between providers and consumers.
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