On October 20, 2025, many awoke to a digital landscape in disarray. What began as a routine morning quickly devolved into a widespread disruption: Reddit was inaccessible, Snapchat wouldn't load, Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings failed to connect.

On October 20, 2025, many awoke to a digital landscape in disarray. What began as a routine morning quickly devolved into a widespread disruption: Reddit was inaccessible, Snapchat wouldn't load, Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings failed to connect.

Crypto is obsessed with decentralization. On the other hand, crypto leans hard on Amazon’s AWS S3 (Amazon’s Super Simple Storage) and other popular centralized storages for its data needs. What do we mean by data needs?

Throughput, latency and fees. Everyone is obsessed with these. But history doesn’t lie. Performance doesn’t win. Tooling does. The difference between projects that fade and those that define their category comes down to tooling.

Hyve is a decentralized data storage with competing qualities to those of AWS S3. It also boasts a robust DA (Data Availability) solution, which exists as a cog in the greater data infrastructure engine that Hyve encompasses.

Whether your app lives on a L1, L2, or L3, its value comes from the security, decentralization, and economics of the base layer it relies on. However, most apps break this alignment when they rely on centralized cloud providers such as AWS S3.