What are Storage Marketplaces?
Storage Marketplaces are platforms that connect users needing decentralized data storage with providers offering storage capacity. These tools facilitate the buying, selling, and management of storage resources on decentralized networks, often leveraging blockchain technology to ensure transparency and trust. Typical services in this category include marketplaces for file storage, retrieval, and hosting, where storage providers compete to offer space and users select based on price, reliability, and performance. The primary users are developers and product teams building decentralized applications (dapps) that require scalable, censorship-resistant, and verifiable storage solutions. Key characteristics of these marketplaces include decentralized governance, token-based incentives, and integration with distributed storage protocols like IPFS, Filecoin, or Arweave. Subcategories may include storage rental platforms and data retrieval services. Developers should explore Storage Marketplaces when they need to outsource data storage in a decentralized manner, optimize costs, or ensure data availability and integrity without relying on centralized providers.