Re-Naming this Storage Solution

[mudigal]

Web3 Storage is already available in the market, which is built on FileCoin.

Github for that - https://github.com/web3-storage

Its high time we come up with some cool name for our storage solution! Please suggest.

[mudigal]

Some suggestions by Claude -

Egyptian Mythology:

• Ammit — devourer of the unworthy; slashes dishonest providers
• Duat — underworld vault where souls are stored and judged
• Maat — goddess of truth, order, justice
• Sekhem — divine power/authority
• Ushabti — servants sealed in tombs to serve forever

Greek:

• Aegis — shield of Zeus; guaranteed protection
• Cerberus — multi-provider guardian

Indian Mythology:

• Akshaya — inexhaustible vessel; persistent storage that never runs out
• Chiranjiv — immortal/eternal; data that lives forever
• Kavach — divine armor/shield; protection through stake
• Naaga — serpent guardians of underground treasures
• Sumeru — cosmic mountain (Merkle Mountain Range double meaning)
• Dharitra — "one who holds/bears"; holds data accountable
• Akshay Nidhi — inexhaustible treasury
• Vastram — cosmic fabric; data woven into chain
• Garuda — divine protector and carrier

Mesopotamian:

• Abzu — primordial deep where knowledge was kept
• Kishar — "whole earth", totality of ground

Persian Mythology:

• Simurgh — guardian of the Tree of Knowledge
• Asha — cosmic truth/order; honesty enforced by slashing
• Daena — divine conscience that judges
• Faravahar — guardian spirit, symbol of protection

Game Theory / Accountability:

• Stakehold — storage backed by stake
• Wardent — warden + decentralized
• Pactum — Latin for agreement/pact
• Ironclad — unbreakable guarantees

Cryptographic / Technical:

• Merkora — Merkle + ora (edge/boundary)
• Chainvault — chain-backed vault

Short & Startup-friendly:

• Provault — provider + vault
• Stakesafe — says what it does
• Blobpact — blob storage + pact
• Corro — from "corroborate" (verify)
• Dault — decentralized + vault

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Tintin:

• Marlinspike — Captain Haddock's estate; a grand vault/stronghold
• Calculus — Professor Calculus; the absent-minded genius who always delivers (like providers)
• Castafiore — the Milanese Nightingale; persistent, impossible to silence (like your data)
• Syldavia — fictional kingdom with guarded secrets
• Unicorn — the ship hiding Red Rackham's treasure; data buried but retrievable

Harry Potter:

• Gringotts — the goblin-run vault; literally stake-backed storage with guardians
• Fidelius — the secret-keeper charm; one trusted keeper holds your data
• Pensieve — stores and retrieves memories perfectly
• Horcrux — data split across multiple providers, survives if any one lives (replication!)
• Patronus — guardian that protects against threats
• Niffler — finds and hoards valuables; data retrieval

Lord of the Rings:

• Palantir — seeing stones; distributed orbs that store and reveal truth (taken by the company though)
• Mithril — lightweight but indestructible; efficient but guaranteed storage
• Ent — ancient guardians who protect what's entrusted to them; slow but unstoppable
• Silmaril — jewels of immense value, worth guarding with your life (stake!)
• Andúril — "flame of the west", reforged; rebuilt trust through cryptographic proof
• Erebor — the mountain vault of the dwarves (Merkle Mountain Range again)
• Lórien — protected realm where nothing decays; persistent storage

Manga / Anime:

• Kamui — divine power in Naruto; authority of the chain
• Zanpakuto — soul-bound sword in Bleach; data bound to provider by stake
• Senku — Dr. Stone's genius who rebuilds from stored knowledge
• Akira — raw unstoppable power; the chain's credible threat
• Shinigami — death gods who enforce rules; the slashing mechanism
• Vault Hunter — Borderlands-inspired; seeking and securing storage

Asterix:

• Dogmatix — the loyal little dog; always faithful, always watching (monitoring)
• Getafix — the druid who brews the magic potion; the protocol that empowers providers
• Obelix — fell in the potion as a child, permanently strong; permanently staked
• Menhir — Obelix's carved stones; immovable, permanent data markers
• Indomitable — "the indomitable Gauls"; storage that can't be taken down

Other Comics / Fiction:

• Wakanda — technologically advanced hidden vault (Marvel)
• Vibranium — indestructible material; indestructible guarantees
• Tesseract — cosmic storage cube (Marvel)
• Batcave — hidden, secure, always accessible
• Tardis — bigger on the inside; scalable storage
• Hobbiton — peaceful, reliable, unassuming but sturdy
• Cerebro — finds and connects to everything in the network (X-Men)
• Asgard — realm of the gods; the authoritative chain layer
• Mjolnir — only the worthy can wield it; stake-gated access

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Overall top picks across all categories:

Name │ Why it works
| :--------: │ :---------------- │
Akshaya │ "Inexhaustible" — beautiful, pronounceable, perfect meaning
Sumeru │ Cosmic mountain + Merkle Mountain Range double meaning
Maat │ 4 letters, goddess of truth — maps to verify/slash
Asha │ "Cosmic truth" — slashing enforces honesty
Gringotts │ Everyone instantly gets it — stake-backed guarded vaults
Mithril │ Lightweight but indestructible — efficient + guaranteed
Erebor │ Mountain vault + MMR connection, epic feel
Pensieve │ Store and retrieve perfectly — intuitive for storage
Menhir │ Immovable permanent stone markers — love this for data persistence
Stakehold │ Immediately communicates the game-theoretic model

[karolk91]

• Spacetime
• DotSpace
• DotStore
• DotStorage
• PolkaDisk
• PolkaSpace
• Bulletin v2

[antkve]

Latinate / Greek-ish:
Arcus
Memora
Thesaurus (“treasure/storehouse” origin)
Chronos
Aether
Nodus
Arca (“chest”/“ark”)
Cista (“box/chest”)
Mnemo (memory root)
Demosyne
Statera
Krypteia
Tabularis
Archivum
Codex

[franciscoaguirre]

I propose to name this similar as other protocols in Polkadot: like BABE, GRANDPA, ELVES, BEEFY, TAMARIND.
Here's a list of names similar to each of those respectively:

• NANA: Nested Archive for Negotiated Agreements
• LARDER: Leased ARchive for Distributed Encoded Records
• GNOMES: Granular Negotiated Off-chain Merkle-anchored Enforceable Storage
• CHUNKY: Chunked Hash-anchored Upheld Negotiated Keepsake Yard
• TAMARIND: Time-bound Agreements for Merkle-Anchored Replicated Independent Nimble Datastores

I personally like GNOMES, it's short, fits well with ELVES and the meaning of the acronym is good.

[burdges]

Spacetime was already used by many kinda stupid projects

All the Polka or Dot plus storage synonyms make some sense.

The real innovation here is observing that an interactive protocol resembling a state channel disputes handles storage reliability as well or better than zk proofs, etc. Yes merkle proofs get used, but that's more an internal detail. We probably do not want disputes per se, but one can say similar safer sounding stuff..

StorageChan = Storage state channel but a wordplay on 4chan, etc. Also StoreChan, SpaceChan, FileChan, DiskChan, etc.

Settled Store = Storage mediated through state channel settlement and dispute procedures. I guess this sends a bunch of the reliability etc signals while being fully justified by the underlying tech.