Aptos Labs and Jump Crypto launches Shelby, a decentralized hot storage protocol built for speed

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Aptos Labs has united its forces with Jump Crypto to unveil Shelby, a new decentralized hot storage protocol designed to support web3 high -speed web applications in real time, according to an announcement on Tuesday.

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Decentralized and monetizable storage for applications rich in data.

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Designed for non-stop3 non-stop3 workloads such as video streaming, AI training, Data flows and informal tokens, Shelby promises to provide cloud performance while preserving the guarantees of transparency and decentralization property.

Cases of use with low bandwidth and low latency such as streaming and live flows recover Internet traffic models, exposing the limits of decentralized storage networks. Designed for static content, these systems do not have the speed and responsiveness necessary for web3 requests, as indicated by Aptos Labs and Jump Crypto.

With Shelby, the team aims to fill this performance gap, offering web manufacturers “the next chapter of the decentralized infrastructure”, according to the CEO of Aptos, Avery CHING.

“It is not only faster or more flexible. It completely unlocks new categories of applications that can work in real time, evolve in channels and give creators and developers a total control of their data and economic,” said CHING in a press release.

How shelby works

Shelby will operate on a global network of high performance nodes connected by a dedicated fiber optical skeleton, with a on-board cache that allows access to large-scale subsecond data.

EDGE cache is a technique where data is temporarily stored closer to users, allowing them to access the content in less than a second, even if it is hosted far.

According to the team, the protocol supports real -time readings, access control based on smart contracts and flexible monetization tools such as pricing based on the use, tilting and application of DRM.

While Aptos serves as a native coordination layer, offering a finality of 600 ms, 30,000 transactions per second and ultra-basic gas costs, Shelby is designed to be agnostic in chain, with a planned support for ecosystems, in particular Ethereum, Solana and other modular environments.

“We build Shelby to put an end to the false choices between speed and centralization,” commented Sarabh Sharma, partner, investment manager at Jump Crypto. “The possibility of moving large -scale data, the logic of access to the program and monetizing the content natively is a leap forward not only for Web3, but for the Internet as a whole.”

Shelby drew the attention of key players such as Metaplex, the history protocol and the pipe network. The platform sets its speeds on a Devnet focused on developers of the fourth quarter 2025, followed by a Public Testnet deployment.

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