Decentralised
Storage & Compute
AI inference that runs inside the network — on encrypted data, on hardware you own. Storage, streaming, and compute.
S3-compatible
Drop-in AWS replacement
Client-side encrypted
Zero plaintext on any node
Redundant shards
Survive multiple node failures
ZiB Node
film_reel_ep3.mp4
Whisper transcription — pass 2 of 3
Uptime
24h 15m
Earned
0.45 ZiB
Jobs done
12
The Flaw in the Cloud
Centralised AI infrastructure means one company sees every request, controls pricing, and holds your data. ZiB is the alternative.
$400B+
The projected cloud AI infrastructure market by 2028 — almost entirely controlled by three companies. That's not infrastructure. That's a monopoly with an API.
The centralised model is broken for AI:
AI Vendor Lock-in
Your model weights, inference data, and pricing — all controlled by the same company that can cut you off tomorrow.
Inference Surveillance
Every request you send to a centralised AI provider is logged, profiled, and owned by them. Your data trains their next model.
Data Breaches
Single points of failure that attackers can — and do — target. One breach exposes everything.
Outages
When AWS goes down, everything goes down. Centralised architecture makes downtime everyone's problem.
AI That Runs
Inside the Network
ZiB nodes run AI inference directly on your stored, encrypted video — speech, vision, GARM brand-safety scoring and IAB Content Taxonomy v3.0 categorisation. All on-network. None of it ever seen by a third-party cloud.
Three-pass analysis pipeline
Per-Frame Analysis
Emotion, body language, thumbnail score, on-screen text, brand detection — for every keyframe
Per-Segment Intent
Hook / payoff / CTA detection and engagement prediction per transcript segment
Whole-Video Synthesis
Executive summary, narrative arc, title/description, audience & ad-targeting signals, IAB v3.0 + GARM brand safety
Transcription & Captions
Full transcripts with timestamps, speaking pace, and confidence scores — powered by on-device speech recognition. WebVTT captions generated automatically and linked directly to your HLS stream.
Scene & Visual Analysis
Per-frame emotion, body language, brand detection, thumbnail scoring, and production quality — analysed by on-device vision models running directly on the node. No cloud. No third party.
Universal Sidecar JSON
One canonical encrypted output per video. Clip suggestions with vertical crop scores, IAB taxonomy, GARM brand safety floor, thumbnail rankings — plus YouTube-ready chapter timestamps you can paste straight into your description.
Everything AI applications need.
Owned by no one. Available to everyone.
No vendor in the loop. Every capability runs on hardware you own, behind keys only you hold — with no central point to breach, throttle, or shut down.
Unbreakable Security
AES-256-GCM encryption client-side, before any bytes reach a node. Reed-Solomon 8+4 sharding survives four simultaneous node failures. Node operators only ever see UUID-tagged ciphertext — never your filenames, paths, or content. Node-to-node traffic runs over a private WireGuard mesh: no public ports, no plaintext on the wire.
Video Streaming
Hardware-accelerated HLS/DASH encoding across 240p–1080p quality variants. Segments are encrypted and delivered directly from nodes — no CDN middleman in the data path.
Blazing-Fast Speeds
Files are retrieved in parallel from the nearest nodes, ensuring faster download and upload speeds compared to traditional centralized services.
Earn Rewards
Contribute your spare storage and compute to the network and earn rewards. Turn your idle hardware into a valuable asset.
Developer SDK
S3-compatible API with AWS SigV4, a browser JS SDK with credentialless uploads, and a single API call for encoding and AI compute. Drop in ZiB wherever you use S3 today.
Self-Healing Network
Heartbeat-driven liveness detects offline nodes within seconds. Missing shards are re-replicated automatically until full 8+4 redundancy is restored. No ops on call, no playbooks to run.
Direct Ingest from Your Node
PIN-pair the desktop app to your account and drop files straight in. The node encrypts, shards, and encodes locally — no browser upload, no round-trip through any cloud. Same pipeline, zero egress.
Drop-in S3.
Built for the Web.
ZiB is S3-compatible out of the box. Point your existing AWS SDK at our endpoint and it just works. For browser apps, the ZiBStorage JS SDK handles encryption, multipart uploads, and video encoding with a single call.
S3-Compatible API
AWS SigV4 auth, presigned URLs, automatic multipart upload chunking at 50MB
No Credentials in the Browser
Server calls initiate the upload — browser gets a one-time URL and uploads directly to nodes
Video Encoding API
One call to start HLS/DASH multi-bitrate encoding with hardware acceleration (VideoToolbox, NVENC, AMF)
AI Compute API
POST /compute/sidecar/{id} — transcription + vision analysis, results stored back in ZiB as a JSON sidecar
Real-Time Webhooks
encoding.progress, job completion, and sidecar-ready events delivered straight to your endpoint — no polling required
Stable file_id, Automatic Supersede
Re-upload to the same key and ZiB cancels the old encoding job for you. One live job per (bucket, key) — route by file_id and trust it
Multi-Platform Node Support
Desktop app (macOS, Windows), Linux daemon, and Raspberry Pi — all running the same stack
// Encrypt + upload — AES-256-GCM before
// any bytes reach a node
const { file_id, cdn_url } = await
ZiBStorage.uploadDirect(file, registration);
// One call: HLS/DASH encode + transcription
// + Vision AI sidecar (GARM, IAB, chapters)
await zib.startEncoding(file_id, {
transcription: 'recommended',
vision: 'standard',
});
// Subscribe — webhooks push progress
// and final sidecar to your endpoint
// POST https://you.example.com/zib-hook
// event: encoding.progress | sidecar.ready
Earn USDC
With Your Storage & Compute
Install a node. Share your spare drive and compute. Get paid every 48 hours in USDC — no mining, no staking, no lock-ups.
Storage Jobs
Earn per GB stored and per shard served. The network routes jobs to the nearest available nodes automatically.
Encoding Jobs
Run hardware-accelerated HLS/DASH encodes and earn per completed job. VideoToolbox, NVENC, and AMF all supported.
AI Compute Jobs
Nodes with capable GPUs can opt into transcription and vision analysis jobs, earning a premium rate per completed inference.
~4 mo
Payback period
~188%
Annual ROI on hardware
48 hrs
Reward cycle
How We Stack Up
Not just better than the cloud. Better than existing decentralised alternatives too.
| AWS S3 | Dropbox | Backblaze B2 | Filecoin | Sia | ZiB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price /TB | ~$23 | ~$20 | ~$6 | ~$1–5 | ~$1–2 | $6–20 dynamic |
| Performance | High, costly | Consumer | Budget tier | Archival only | P2P, no CDN | Fast P2P |
| Ownership | Vendor lock-in | None | None | Miner-controlled | Renter keys | Your keys |
| S3 Compatible | Yes — locked in | Yes — centralised | Partial | Drop-in | ||
| Streaming | Via CloudFront | HLS/DASH | ||||
| AI Compute | Separate bill | On-network | ||||
| Operator sees filenames? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | UUID-only |
| Earn Rewards | FIL token | Siacoin | USDC |