A comparison between CESS and the SafeNetwork

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It came to my attention that there is another project trying to establish the same usecase as the Safe Network. They seem pretty far development wise and also have a testnet running currently:
https://cess.cloud/
Recent investment from VC: https://cointelegraph.com/news/decentralized-storage-platform-cess-raises-8-million-13-vc-funds

It be nice to have a topic for discussing their design and methods compared to ours.
From my understanding and limited research, it seems to have identical features, but with a blockchain instead for payment, with a set price for storage.

About CESS

CESS (Cumulus Encrypted Storage System) is a blockchain powered decentralized storage and content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure for Web3. Users and creators alike use the platform for on-chain data sharing, whilst builders can develop and deploy DApps.

Offering the most optimal Web3 solution for storing and retrieving high-frequency dynamic data, CESS reshapes the value distribution and circulation of data assets whilst ensuring data sovereignty and user privacy.

By utilizing a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) model, CESS drives mass deployment of network nodes globally through incentives.

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  1. It’s not really a network for home use - it’s more for developers and CDN use.

  2. It’s not applicable as a payment network - it’s system is pretty much solely for the payment for data storage, so limiting it’s functionality.

  3. I’m not certain how effective SAFE will be as a CDN for the open web (it would need bridges?). Safe is for home user storage and also an attempt to build a separate Internet and not really about providing functionality for the existing Internet.

So I think that CESS and SAFE are serving different sectors and have different purposes. CESS appears to be for the developer niche and SAFE is for everyone.

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