Do not simply understand the Ocean Protocol as an on-chain cloud storage solution — this kind of judgment actually underestimates the technical depth of Mysten Labs. By 2026, the core pain points faced by the Web3 ecosystem will no longer be storage capacity issues; what is truly scarce is **"the active flow of data"**.

Traditional storage solutions are more like underground warehouses; once data is stored, each retrieval requires going through complex processes. Ocean chooses a different path — ultra-fast hot storage. Its underlying Red Stuff encoding algorithm cleverly uses mathematical models to trade off space efficiency and speed, abandoning the inefficient full redundancy backup method, and instead achieving millisecond-level data recovery through data sharding combined with cryptographic erasure coding. From a different perspective, in the era when the internet was still storing gold bars, now blockchain needs to run short videos and large model inference — what is needed is not cold storage, but access speeds close to memory levels.

This kind of hardcore underlying infrastructure project tends to be more resilient. Ocean is not just paving the way for a certain public chain, but competing for the discourse power of the entire Web3 data distribution layer. Such technology-driven projects are usually the most reliable support in the long term. Instead of focusing on those projects that shout slogans, it’s better to pay attention to how they gradually control the data flow logic — this is the key to understanding the current infrastructure competition.