“We do with data what Bitcoin did to money”
TinyCloud and Aqua Protocol are coming together at the intersection of Identity, Verifiable Data, and Data Access Control to give users, networks, and high trust groups new ways to share verified data sets on territory which they control and delegate access to using private keys.
The Shared Vision
Our shared vision is a world where technology works for individuals, groups, networks, and industries instead of few controlling entities. We see a world where people are able to use technology, transact, and be empowered digitally all without centralized intermediaries. The power of cryptographic verification has enabled a multi-trillion dollar industry to emerge with blockchains, finance, and cryptocurrencies; we are working to unlock the same disintermediating potential for the data that drives our every day lives and interactions. By solving deep identity, verification, and access control issues for individuals, industries, networks and governments, we can unlock more value than financial crypto ever could. Our collaboration and technological synergies, will help us to move further and faster in accomplishing this goal.
disintermediation: The process of removing intermediaries from a system, empowering parties to directly interact with each other.
Launching Sovereign Core
Aqua Protocol and TinyCloud are working together in launching Sovereign Core, a set of neutral, open-source technologies that work together to create powerful infrastructure to form sovereign digital presence and give users the ability to own, account for, and actualize the power within their data.
About the Technologies
TinyCloud is a Sovereign Storage Solution which allows individuals to decide where data lives and who has access to that data using their cryptographic keys and credentials issued to those keys. Using TinyCloud, individuals can create data vaults that allow them to govern their data and decide where that data lives. This means they can share that data with AI agents, applications, or other individuals without ceding control of the data. TinyCloud is personal data sovereignty infrastructure for individuals who want to have true ownership of data, with the capability to delegate access to other parties in a granular way.
Aqua Protocol enables true cryptographic verifiable data provenence. Using lightweight verifiable data structures, Aqua gives end users portable, private, tamper-proof data accounting capabilities. Aqua provides a data accounting framework that gives individuals control and ownership over their data, these capabilities provide enterprise-grade security with the convenience of decentralized technology. Aqua ensures data integrity and provenance through cryptographic verification, creating tamper-proof records of what happened to data and when — all without requiring a blockchain or compromising privacy.Learn more at https://aqua-protocol.org
What the Partnership Delivers
The partnership between TinyCloud and Aqua is focused on integrating these key technologies together to give individuals:
Policy Engine for Granular Access Control At the heart of our collaboration is building a policy engine that runs on verifiable data. This policy engine enables fine grained access controls following the well specified ODRL policy classes. Adding the policy engine to TinyCloud enabled access to data based on powerful parameters (i.e. credential-based access, time-based access, location-based access, and more) in a way that is trusted and verifiable. This allows for the creation of high-value gated venues such as professional associations in the legal, medical, and financial spaces, but also the ability to create structured community data stores for Network States and high trust groups who want to own and control the data in their Network collectively. Gated venues will range from the simple, such as gated chats and online communities, to the more complex gating and sharing of physical assets.
Example Use Cases:
- Gated Group Chat: Access requires valid network credentials
- Digital Access Control: Phone-based RFID keys issued via credential verification
- Privacy-Preserving Location Sharing: Share location or proximity with network members
Zero-Trust Data Marketplace with Marketplace Capabilities TinyCloud and Aqua are coming together to build a zero-trust architecture for selling data using TinyCloud instances, Aqua protocol, our shared policy engine, and EigenCloud TEEs for verifiable execution, with on-chain escrow services to ensure trustless data transactions.
This platform uses verifiable, trusted execution environments, cryptographic receipts, and smart contract escrows to ensure buyers receive promised data while guaranteeing sellers get paid—without requiring either party to trust the other. By combining TinyCloud’s object capability-based data sharing, Aqua’s legal contract integration and cryptographic verification, our shared policy engine, and EigenCloud’s TEE infrastructure, we solve the fundamental trust problems that lead to data marketplace failures while enabling legally-binding data transactions with institutional credential verification.
A shared framework
Our partnership delivers a shared framework for building neutral, open-source tools that deliver on long sought out capabilities, while driving service-based business models used by leading companies like MongoDB, Elastic, Redis, etc. We are creating a strong network of allies in order to build and propagate a sovereign internet and the technologies to which enable this vision.
Join us in building the future of sovereign data. Learn more at tinycloud.xyz