Aleph.im announces integration with Tezos  

Aleph.im, a cross-blockchain decentralized storage and computing network, and leading blockchain Tezos (XTZ/USD) announced an integration, Invezz learned from a press release.

The integration will make connecting with Aleph’s decentralized infrastructure easy for developers on Tezos in line with Aleph’s previous integrations with blockchains like Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon.

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An extra layer of security and permanence

Marketplaces and dApps on Tezos will be able to leverage Aleph’s distributed compute and storage nodes, and Tezos NFTs will gain an extra layer of built-in security and permanence through a native backup of corresponding metadata to Aleph’s decentralized network.

Addressing pressing problems with NFTs

Outages and service interruptions can cause NFTs to become temporarily inaccessible. What’s more, the lack of redundancy in traditional cloud architecture could potentially render crucial NFT metadata nonexistent if a centralized cloud storage network provider were to cease to exist or go out of business.

With its NFT backup dApp, Aleph.im addresses these and other issues. The IPFS-connected app fixes key NFT metadata more than 50 times to each core channel node of the aleph.im decentralized network.

Jonathan Schemoul, CEO and Founder of Aleph.im commented:

NFT artists, collectors, and traders are just beginning to learn about the risks associated with centralized NFT storage, and, although the details can be dense, it’s likely that many have heard stories of NFTs disappearing or inaccessible. For this reason, we wanted to make it easy for anyone to use Aleph’s NFT backup dApp, and this integration with Tezos has given us a chance to move one step closer to making NFT backup very easy for the average NFT owner.

According to Schemoul, locked $ALEPH tokens are an easy way to pay for storage on Aleph. To ensure NFT storage reliability, the Aleph.im network also provides a ‘minimum wage’ payment to node providers. Burning Tezos NFTs will provide the holder with the $ALEPH tokens embedded in the NFT.

Schemoul added:

By pinning copies of relevant metadata to core channel nodes in our network, our NFT backup dApp uses redundancy to curb risk, but in the case of Tezos, we will be integrating the $ALEPH token directly into Tezos NFTs, making it easy for end users to back up Tezos NFTs on the Aleph network.

Hadrien Zerah, Managing Director at Nomadic Labs, said:

We are very pleased to be able to collaborate with the Aleph team. The arrival of a new decentralized storage solution on Tezos will attract new entrepreneurs to build innovative projects.