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Introduction
We live in a world where data isn’t just important, it’s everything. It’s the heartbeat of our digital lives, from the personal identities we protect to the AI models that will define the future. Every interaction, every advancement, is built on data. And yet, the systems that hold it all together—our storage solutions—are failing us.
Today, we are forced to choose between the flaws of the past and the promises of the future. Web2 is centralized and vulnerable, a constant target for censorship, control, and security breaches. Web3, though groundbreaking, often leaves us grappling with insecurity, rigidity, and a lack of true interoperability. We’ve long known that this is not enough.
It’s time for a new approach that meets the needs of an AI-first world, with storage that is as innovative, private, and secure as the technologies being powered. One that is tamper-proof, verifiable, and censorship-resistant. One that merges the strengths of decentralization with enterprise-grade security, verifiability, and seamless interoperability for the future of AI, web3, and tokenized assets. That solution is DataHaven.
DataHaven provides an unshakable foundation for the next wave of digital transformation. Deployed as an Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS) secured by EigenLayer’s re-staking protocol, DataHaven ensures data is:
Tamper-proof, protected by cryptographic proofs that guarantee integrity
Verifiable, allowing AI-generated models and logs to remain auditable and accountable
Censorship-resistant, ensuring no single entity controls access
Private, so after it is encrypted you can ensure it stays that way
AI-optimized, designed for federated learning, AI agents, and machine learning workloads
With native EVM compatibility, DataHaven enables seamless smart contract integration, empowering decentralized applications (dApps) to build on a trustless and future-proof storage layer. As AI-driven innovation accelerates, DeFi expands, and tokenized assets rise, the need for sovereign, verifiable, and interoperable storage has never been greater. DataHaven is not just meeting this need; it is driving the revolution.
Why DataHaven?
Blockchains excel at creating public, verifiable data and representing value. However, they are inherently inefficient when it comes to storing large amounts of data, as all information must be replicated across all nodes in the network. This limitation has driven developers to rely on off-chain storage solutions for data-intensive applications, which introduces centralized trust assumptions that compromise the security and censorship resistance that blockchains are designed to provide. Moreover, off-chain data is vulnerable to unavailability or loss, yet developers and users have largely accepted this weakened security as the norm.
In response to these limitations, projects such as Filecoin and Arweave have emerged to enable decentralized storage while maintaining certain web3 principles. While these platforms demonstrate the viability of blockchain-based storage, they function as standalone networks. This isolation creates substantial challenges, as the majority of developer activity, asset issuance, and user engagement is concentrated on smart contract platforms like Ethereum, Solana, and Layer 2 blockchains.
For developers building on these smart contract platforms, integrating web3 storage solutions from separate blockchains results in a fragmented architecture. This not only increases the security attack surface and trust assumptions—as they become the union of both systems—but also leads to a poor user experience due to the complexities of managing accounts and transactions across multiple independent blockchains.
DataHaven was specifically designed to address these challenges by providing a specialized blockchain for efficient decentralized storage while remaining natively integrated within the Ethereum ecosystem. Unlike standalone storage solutions, DataHaven is secured by Ethereum through the EigenLayer re-staking protocol. This approach significantly minimizes additional security and trust assumptions for developers already building within Ethereum, ensuring storage security is directly tied to Ethereum’s economic and cryptographic guarantees.
Moreover, DataHaven features an integral, native, and trust-minimized bridge, a critical distinction absent in competitors, which depend on third-party bridges with their own trust requirements. This native bridge is paramount, as it enables DataHaven storage to be seamlessly accessed and integrated into Ethereum-based applications on both the mainnet and Layer 2 networks.
As a result, DataHaven stands as the first and only specialized storage solution that is natively part of the Ethereum ecosystem. This allows developers to incorporate robust, decentralized storage into their applications without the usual trade-offs, ensuring seamless interoperability, high security, and a streamlined user experience.
Authors
This litepaper was made possible by the expertise and insights of the following individuals from the Moonbeam Foundation, along with contributions from Moonsong Labs:
John Bridgewater
Advisor
Alex DiNunzio
Head of Growth & Strategy
Piotr Dziubecki
Head of Product
Aaron Evans
Head of Operations
Prasanna Ketheeswaran
Chief Financial Officer
Ryan Levy
Global Head of Business Development
Sicco Naets
Head of Ecosystem
