BEYOND BORDERS

A serious contender to become the first truly decentralised and anonymous alternative to the Internet as we know it, The Unigrid Network is proposing a revolutionary shift in how on-chain data storage and cloud services work. Maria Debrincat sits down with their CEO and Co-founder Evan Green.

Is there anything particularly interesting about the technical white paper you will be sending out to accredited firms and investors?

The white paper describes a completely new way of storing data and deploying services in a fault-tolerant and redundant manner. What we are proposing has never been done before and is a gutsy shift in how Blockchain networks, storage and cloud services work. It has the potential to completely change how we store data and deploy services on the internet.

How are you pushing this network forward to become the first truly decentralized and anonymous alternative to the regular internet?

The Unigrid Network does not discriminate against who can and will contribute compute cycles and data storage. We believe the only way for a network like this to work is to allow anyone to join. The Unigrid Foundation acts in the sole interest of pushing the network forward. It does not control which updates make it onto the network though. These decisions will be left up to the network itself with a voting system on-chain.

Can you expand more on your pitch deck?

We tried to focus more on how Unigrid will help and its solutions rather than get into too many technical details. One of the biggest problems with how the current internet functions is in how data is stored. We plan to revolutionise how this works by utilising Blockchain technology for fault tolerance and redundancy.

On a typical website, for example, data is stored locally on one server. If a client needs this data backed up and stored in another location there is a cost involved with moving that data and renting further storage space. On the Unigrid network, this will be a feature and not an afterthought. Data will automatically be backed up by sharding it into tiny segments then distributing it across the network.

We will also introduce parity blocks for fault tolerance and data redundancy. This will allow the network to self-manage what data is needed and how many copies of shards to store. As far as we are aware this will be a first in the world of Blockchain.

What are the biggest milestones on your horizon? As things stand?

On-chain redundant data storage will be our first step to the new network. We are pushing to have a beta of that working out this year. With this update, end-users will be able to store data on-chain that is sharded across the network redundantly. Another implementation we plan to add this year will be a free VPN service. This will allow end-users to browse the internet via an anonymous proxy through our network.

What do you consider to be your biggest strength as a team?

We have over 65 years of combined experience in software development with our core team. Our background is diverse, with many areas of expertise ranging from networking to mobile applications.

Do you have any new projects coming up that you're excited about?

Currently, we are working on an update to our protocol and releasing a new wallet. The wallet will allow us to generate new tokens for the current investors and will enable the distribution process to begin. The wallet itself is built utilising Java as we slowly start to move away from the old source code. This wallet will be the entry point to the Unigrid network. Here users will be able to either maintain their grid nodes or purchase data storage which can then be uploaded to the network. We will also be implementing an auto-update feature in these wallets so they are always up to date with network changes.

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