Announcing "StorPunk" a fork of Autonomi for temporary data, defi, & more

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Introducing StorPunk: A Temporary Storage Fork of Autonomi

Greetings Autonomi community,

I’ve been working to create the StorPunk project, a soon-to-be fork of Autonomi that pivots the network architecture from permanent to temporary storage.

Key Technical Differences

Storage Model: Where Autonomi promises perpetual data retention, StorPunk will implement configurable TTLs (time to live). Clients will specify retention periods, nodes price accordingly, and data is automatically purged on expiration. Some method of renewal is also on the table.

Token Architecture: Native network token (non-blockchain) with nano-transaction fees instead of ERC-20. This enables micropayments for smaller data chunks and keeps the value within our network as opposed to giving value the external networks.

Node Economics: Pure market model - nodes earn only from direct storage fees, no network rewards, no emissions, & no token burning. This aligns incentives with actual utility and prevents inflationary and deflationary pressures on the token. Keeping the financial ecosystem simple and straightforward.

Native Exchange: Built-in DEX functionality targeting Bisq-like defi functionality, but with an easier to use interface - perhaps similar to CeFi platform localcoinswap. Our DEX will run directly on the network. But may require Ethereum wallet (like metamask) for some trading pairs. We aim to support trading of:

  • WBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin) - an BTC backed stable coin hosted on ethereum
  • USDT or similar dollar backed stable coin
  • PAXG a Gold backed stable coin
  • ETH
  • ANTONOMI (and later a native Autonomi token if/when it is created)
  • PUNK (StorPunk’s native token)
  • PUNK-DAO (StorPunk’s DAO token on Ethereum)

Complementary, Not Competitive

We will also aim to build a dual-network client that can interface with both StorPunk and Autonomi. Users get unified access to temporary and permanent storage from a single application. Think of it as expanding the ecosystem rather than fragmenting it - permanent archives on Autonomi, working data on StorPunk.

Keep in mind that the project is still at conception stage with a 5-year DAO funding model planned. I would appreciate any constructive feedback from the Autonomi community.

Join the StorPunk Community

Of course a decentralized project needs a decentralized team. So, if you’re passionate about digital sovereignty and have skills in Rust, P2P networking, distributed systems, or DeFi, we’d love to have you join us. We’re especially looking for founders (early pro-bono contributors) who share our cyberpunk ethos - founders will be rewarded.

For privacy and security, we’re using the decentralized app Retroshare over Tor for all community discussions and development coordination. This ensures that team members can maintain anonymity while collaborating effectively. Visit our website’s “Join Us” page for the Retroshare connection details and available positions.

Check out all of the details at storpunk.io

–TylerAbeoJordan (founder and project coordinator)

Edits:

21 August 2025
Link to current draft DAO constitution draft on github:

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Here is an alternative idea you could work on and require less work and greater acceptance without dividing people over what is right/wrong or which to use. Also save developing for yourself so many things like token etc

Rather than a competing product, have a complementary network working alongside Autonomi. Make a temp storage network compatible with Autonomi where the nodes store temp data, accepted Autonomi token and the data is temporary. Then people could run 80% Autonomi nodes and 20% temp storage nodes. Well whatever ratio they wanted, and the normal market forces would have operators adjust the ratio depending on usage of their nodes.

Be fine while Autonomi uses blockchain for payment, once native then the temp storage nodes would have to kind of exist in both networks to get paid, or at least be able to check their Autonomi native wallet to check for being paid. So the node runs in the temp storage network and has a routine to check their Autonomi wallet.

That could actually work, be expensive for temp storage but could have very valid use cases where the user wants to use “cloud” storage but only temporary. IE an app that generates TBs of temp files while processing but then only outputs results as permanent. At internet speeds this would be a slow processing compared to local store, but maybe its recording real world data over months from sensors/sources from all over the world.

But for it to be successful it would have to be almost a mirror of Autonomi and the addon for payment checking. The only real difference is the TTL for data

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Mostly that’s what we are doing - we aren’t building a competing product at all … please read the website - we aren’t doing permanent data and we are going to use Autonomi for permanent data via our client - so people can choose to use whichever type of storage they prefer.

Also and critically, we are aiming for the cypherpunk/cyberpunk dream of a fully decentralized token with a fully decentralized exchange – This is why I joined Safe in the early days - I wanted the promise of a fast native token and anticipated a fully defi exchange would be built to support it … I’ve argued a lot here for that and it’s clear to me that it’s not going to happen with via Maidsafe.

Lastly, as I’ve also argued here, I have a serious concern with the viability of permanent data. And building long term on such a network with this sword of Damocles hanging over our heads isn’t viable either.

So I really have no option here. StorPunk must be built. I hope that people who have the same dream as me will join - not to divide the community here - but to enhance it!

In crypto we trust.

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DBC as currency?

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Possibly - I would certainly like that, but there isn’t a full specification yet. It needs to be fast, and have low to no transaction fee.

Over the next few months we will work out some more specs, but that’s all I can say right now.

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I’ve been working on the StorPunk DAO constitution this week. For those interested, a draft pdf is located on github - link added to bottom of this threads OP.

Additionally there have been many changes to the website’s roadmap and DAO plan.

29 August update - nothing visible today, but behind the scenes I’ve made a lot of changes to the DAO plan, and the website - a whole refocus toward a much broader audience. I’ve also introduced a new community development fund to be managed by the DAO which will carry on with funding for possibly much longer than the core development plan.

I hope to have the new changes up before the weekend is over, but otherwise, next week, then onto the the DAO development itself.

Cheers :beers:

05 Sept 2025 update:

The website has undergone major changes - refocusing the marketing from being a storage network, to becoming a complete cypherpunk ecosystem. The DAO also has significant changes.

I am currently having issues with DNS for the storpunk.io but should be up within 24 hours. Currently the site is accessible via tor:

http://roiy357xbbf53w4ens45gv4wqfxkkibpuj5tgkvsirhy6sjoprfrnwqd.onion/

Next job is the DAO build plan.

Cheers :beers:

11 Sept 2025

Just a short update this week with nothing new to reveal.

Behind the scenes I’ve been developing work flows (scripts) to build the website from markdown files - as easy to further develop the site and quickly build and deploy it. The site still has many issues and will take me some time (maybe another month) to fully resolve all of them.

I am also creating a comprehensive DAO development plan that will be ready for release in a few days. I expect DAO contract coding to start next week.

I am not a super speedy worker and also want to insure I am thorough, so please don’t expect fast results, but we are getting there and everything time-wise is well within my original expectations.

Cheers :beers:

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For a constitution it seems too specific, and for a comprehensive document it leaves too many unknowns. I suspect AI generated too many details for human to make it a concise synthesis. Or perhaps it’s just me having trouble to grasp it.

What does soulbound / non transferable means? Is it tied to specific address? What if this address is a multisig and it gets reconfigured to other member addresses? If someone loses interest in the project, he just stops to vote? What if all people do this? Does it mean, that there is no possibility to onboard new people? If so, quorum tresholds will be harder to achieve I think.

How can a Community Development Fund fund post-launch development for many years, if it’s created from 40% of unsold tokens of tiers, and each tier’s size is just a couple months worth of a full team work?

What if snapshot.org goes offline or is closed?

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Thanks for the feedback. I will work on the constitution some more to make it more readable.

I’m adding a glossary of terms in the future - so that will help with some of these terms. Basically though, Soulbound tokens are non-transferable. After acquiring one, it is always in your personal wallet and identity. It cannot be sold or given to another person.

The reason we are doing this is so that after the value of the $PunkDAO tokens have been transferred to the StorePunk network, post launch, the $PunkDAO token, if it’s not made soulbound, could still be resold -and it wouldn’t be easy for an average person to know if they were getting a PunkDAO token that was still able to give a network Punk token and some people could try to defraud people. By making the $PUNKDAO token soulbound (after you use the bridge to gain the $PUNK tokens), it retains it’s voting right as before, but it will no longer be tradable - it’s only value at that stage is for voting anyway. This all starts post-launch and only happens if you convert the value of the PUNKDAO token into network PUNK tokens.

Stated more simply: tradable $PUNKDAO → soulbound $PUNKDAO + $PUNK token.

Your multisig and governance concerns are valid and I have no solution to them other than to warn in advance to not use multisig for the PUNKDAO tokens unless you are understanding the concern with doing so. Reaching quorum could become a problem as well, but I expect the funds held by the DAO will diminish to pocket change before it becomes a too big worry, hence there won’t be really anything left for the DAO to vote on - it’s not meant to be a vehicle for permanent network governance - only a method to keep the development on track and to support community development sub-projects while funds remain available.

I need to remove the time component from document. Years was speculation on my part and could be very optimistic. The unsold tokens can still be converted to PUNK tokens, so the value of the network PUNK token determines the value of the total sum of unsold PUNKDAO tokens - as we don’t know what this value will be, there really shouldn’t be a time period attached to this.

Votes can happen on-chain, but will then require gas fees.

All great questions and I appreciate you taking the time to read the documentation and provide feedback - all very helpful. Currently it’s just been my eyes and the AI … and much slips through. I’m rereading the docs all the time to find errors and also problems and weaknesses like those you’ve pointed out.

edit: I will also add, that until the contracts are developed and testing is complete, we can change and adapt the plans here - I’m not going to start any marketing until then, so we can consider what we have to be a flexible framework for now. Until then, if you have any suggestions, please share them.

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20 Sept. 2025 update

This week I’ve updated the constitution and whitepaper documents - still unpublished; and continued to develop workflows & CSS for the website - these updates are also still unpublished.

I was a bit under the weather earlier in the week and didn’t get as much done as I wanted, but have been working hard the last two days to have a larger update next week with published results.

As the project documentation has grown larger in volume and information density, it’s become important for me to build scripts that better facilitate reproducible builds of these documents and website. This has taken a longer period of time than I’d hoped, but better to get it right and take a little longer than to continue to deal with a greater burden of as the project grows.

Cheers,

Tyler

26 Sept. 2025

I’ve just pushed a major update to the website and documentation. Too many changes to list. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

Logo contest: 500Ant tokens to the best submitted logo for storpunk. I will create a poll here in this StorPunk thread when we have submissions.

I’m looking for something the same dimensions as the Autonomi logo, but with StorPunk website blue/yellow colors.

Deadline for submissions is 30th of Nov. 2025; just post them here in this thread.

Cheers

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02 Oct, 2025 Update.

This week I’ve started work on the DAO contract. This will take a few weeks to fully deploy the contract on the mainnet I imagine. This weekend I intend to publish the ongoing work via radicle git so more eyes can be on it and next week I hope to deploy onto ethereum testnet and register the contract with snapshot.org to begin testing the contract.

BTW, Anyone going to try for the 500Ant tokens in the logo contest? No submissions yet! Post them in this thread. :wink:

Cheers

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