The mobile app for ArDrive, a decentralized data storage platform, is now available on Google Play Store and gives customers an alternative to Google Drive for data storage. ArDrive Mobile is a decentralized permanent storage app with no size restriction that offers consumers an alternative to popular data storage apps. ArDrive’s mission is making permanent data accessible to everybody – saving, sharing, downloading, and accessing that data has gotten much easier today 🐘🥳 Android users can now download #ArDriveMobile!https://t.co/hALwzfVK9Y — 🐘🔗ArDrive.arweave.dev (@ardriveapp) October 5, 2022 Decentralized Data Storage Platform ArDrive Phil Mataras, the founder of ArDrive, revealed that the mobile app would use the ArWeave storage network, with an iOS version planned for the near future. Like Filecoin and Storj, Arweave is a decentralized file storage platform built on the blockchain. Decentralized storage networks are looking to take a chunk out of the established data storage and server market, which Amazon Web Services dominate. Since users must pay for data upload using Arweave’s native currency, AR, it is anticipated that most ArDrive Mobile users would be crypto-natives initially. The native $AR coin of the Arweave Network serves as a payment for storage space sales. It gives them a reason to keep such files accessible to customers. Arweave thinks that by using this incentive system, it would be possible to build a ...
