Try to imagine an extreme scenario: in the global trade market, no one can prove the origin of goods. Counterfeits are everywhere, and every transaction requires huge costs to verify authenticity, making it impossible to scale business.

Web3 data trading is currently stuck at this bottleneck. When AI datasets, original digital art files, or metaverse scene assets need to be traded or used as collateral, the real challenge is not transmission speed, but—why should I believe this data is genuine, complete, and unaltered?

Buyers cannot obtain neutral proof through traditional centralized storage. This is exactly where decentralized storage protocols can play a role.

The core logic is straightforward: through cryptography and global consensus, generate an unforgeable digital certificate for each data piece. This certificate (represented by content identifier CID and on-chain commitments) accompanies the data for life, allowing anyone to verify independently. It’s like issuing a globally trusted "ID card" for data assets, significantly reducing trust costs and enabling broader trading, financialization, and application scenarios.

Where does the economic incentive come from? That’s where tokens come in. They incentivize nodes to honestly store data and generate trustworthy proofs, while also serving as the basic payment method for using this advanced verification service. The token’s value is directly linked to the total scale of data assets circulating through the network.

Essentially, this system is building the "credit infrastructure" for the digital age.

Once data carries globally verifiable credit endorsement, an efficient, low-friction data asset market can truly operate. For fields like AI training, intellectual property trading, and open metaverse—areas that require complex and reliable data sources—this is not just a tool—it’s the prerequisite for future construction.