Both are distributed storage, what are the differences between Swarm and IPFS?

Recently, Jian Jinqiu, Secretary General of the Blockchain Special Committee, stated in the official media: computing power is power, computing power is assets, and computing power is economy. At present, computing power has occupied a dominant position in the blockchain industry and other emerging digital industry chains. Among them, distributed storage represented by technologies such as IPFS/Filecoin, Swarm/BZZ has huge room for development. The National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Implementation Plan for the Computing Hub of the National Integrated Big Data Center Collaborative Innovation System" on May 24 to accelerate the green and high-quality development of data centers and build a national computing hub system across the country.

Aixin iBLOCK.one actively responds to policy calls, promotes the green ecological development of the blockchain and distributed storage industries, and has launched the distributed storage ace swarm project to help you correctly participate in swarm's first mining bonus. However, as both are decentralized distributed storage, what are the similarities and differences between Swarm and IPFS?

Swarm is similar to IPFS in that:

First, they both provide the underlying technology for efficient decentralized storage of the Internet in the future and are content delivery protocols.

Second, it is all achieved by creating a node network, storing the original data in slices in different network spaces, and using the storage space, bandwidth and network nodes of the participant clients to jointly provide a serverless information data hosting platform.

Third, it is all about solving the problems of network congestion and centralized data storage.

Fourth, both provide incentives to encourage users to use their resources and provide compensation.

Fifth, in principle, they all ensure efficient and transparent use of data and protect the integrity and permanence of data.

The differences between Swarm and IPFS are:

From a development perspective

1. Swarm has just started large-scale testing. With ready-made smart contract ecosystem resources and effective hot data on the Ethereum chain, it can directly realize the value of its distributed storage on the Ethereum chain;

2. IPFS has its own main chain and ecology. The main network has been launched and has recruited a user base. It is still further improving in terms of code maturity, scalability, adoption rate, community participation, and interaction with the dedicated developer community. It is a global public chain and is currently in the ecological development stage. At present, most of the data it stores is cold data.

From the functional point of view

1. Swarm focuses on "building a decentralized storage and communication network on the blockchain". As Ethereum's storage and communication system, Swarm's main goal is Ethereum's DApp code, user basic data, blockchain and state data, as well as untraceable decentralized and redundant storage. Ethereum developers can complete data storage tasks directly through Swarm without having to rely directly on external systems.

2. IPFS is a distributed file system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data, which is comparable to the HTTP protocol of the Web 2.0 era. It builds a network transmission protocol for distributed storage and file sharing, which can connect all computing devices using the same file system, and supplement the hypertext transfer protocol that currently dominates the Internet. Its goal is to solve the problem of centralized data storage under the HTTP protocol. Once the central server is attacked, the data may be stolen, leaked, deleted, and the data storage cost is high. In addition, when the centralized server is accessed in a centralized manner, it will cause congestion, resulting in slow access speed. This problem is particularly prominent when rushing for train tickets during the Spring Festival every year.

From the perspective of motivation

1. Swarm has created a unique incentive system for data storage and distribution to promote user enthusiasm. BZZ is Swarm's functional token and is also used for bandwidth and storage rewards. Swarm's incentive mechanism is divided into the following three categories: 1. Bandwidth incentives, which are used to establish trust relationships to exchange bandwidth and promote data upload and download. 2. Discovery rewards, when a node connects to another node and communicates its connection level, then another (older) node can recommend a new connection for it to improve the new node's connection level. 3. Storage incentives, Swarm's storage space is limited by the sum of all individual nodes' contributions to the network storage, and storage incentives are set to ensure fair compensation for storers;

2. All valuable services on the IPFS network are traded through Filecoin. Storage service providers obtain block packaging rewards by providing storage space services, and users pay FIL to storage service providers through storage and retrieval needs. Filecoin is the incentive layer mechanism of IPFS. The supply and demand relationship is maintained through block rewards and pledge mechanisms. Block rewards depend on the proportion of its storage capacity to the storage capacity of the entire network. Storage capacity is measured by how many units of effective storage space the storage service provider provides in the network and how long it can be stored. The pledge mechanism, on the one hand, ensures that the data stored in Filecoin is not lost. On the other hand, the pledge system deepens the interest binding with storage service providers, prolongs the time period of Filecoin ecological construction, and is conducive to the future development of IPFS.

On May 30, swarm officially announced: We are approaching the mainnet launch; BZZ tokens have not yet been deployed or distributed. Private buyers are not allowed to pledge tokens before the mainnet launch. It is expected that the mainnet launch date is getting closer and closer. Aixin IBLOCK.one, as a mature and high-quality integrated digital asset configuration platform integrating computing power mining farms, computing power asset management, mining machine leasing, mining pools, mining machine sales, decentralized digital asset lending and financial services, has deployed high-quality mining machines for swarm worldwide, while providing technical support for mining farm deployment, and launched multi-currency computing power professional leasing services to ensure the maximum mining income. At the same time, the electricity cost is low, which is more than 15% cheaper than the industry average; invoices can be issued to provide computing power users with a legal and clean "birth certificate"; ultra-low entry threshold, rich buy-and-give activities; provide lending financial services, so that users can accelerate the payback period by 30%.

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