What do traders fear most when monitoring the market? It's not market reversals, but suddenly discovering that their data is gone.



Imagine this scenario: one morning, you want to check last year's backtest records, but when you open Google Drive, you receive a "Link has expired" message; or you log into your exchange and find your account locked due to IP changes, and you can't retrieve years of order history. At that moment, you realize that what you thought was "my" data is essentially just "rented."

**Why is current cloud storage like renting a house?**

Services like AWS and Google Drive are indeed very convenient—fast uploads, stable access, user-friendly interfaces. But what’s the cost? The landlord can reclaim the property at any time. Policy changes, regional restrictions, account anomalies—your data can disappear in an instant. For ordinary users, it might just be losing a few photos, but for traders?

Quantitative strategies refined over two years, accumulated historical market snapshots, transaction records of every order—these are the true assets. Once your cloud account is shut down, you're not just "temporarily unable to access" them; you lose your core competitive advantage. Those data are your secret weapons for making money. Without them, your experience and skills become worthless.

This is why more and more people are starting to ask: is there a way to truly own their data, just like owning Bitcoin—controllable, transferable, and impossible for others to seize? Behind this question lies a huge unmet demand.
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SelfCustodyIssuesvip
· 01-12 12:50
That's right. I have three years of backtesting data just sitting in my wallet. If one day Google glitches and directly bans me, I'm afraid I would have to start all over again.
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LiquidityWitchvip
· 01-12 12:48
yo this hits different... your alpha recipes living rent-free in someone else's vault, then boom—landlord evicts you before market open. that's the real liquidation nobody talks about ngl
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TokenomicsDetectivevip
· 01-12 12:34
Haha, Google Drive was banned once, I will never forget that feeling. Everyone should set up their own nodes to store data, unless you want to leave your fate to the landlord. Cloud storage is just a ticking time bomb, it will blow up sooner or later. This is the core value of Web3—self-custody > everything. How can there still be people trusting centralized services? Read and ignore. Data sovereignty is truly more important than returns. So, on-chain storage needs to become widespread, or we're all playing with fire.
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MetaMaskedvip
· 01-12 12:29
Really, once the account is banned, all the data is gone—that's the biggest nightmare for traders.
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