SINSO EXPLAINED IN SIMPLE TERMS

4 min readJul 25, 2022

If you have heard of SINSO and tried reading up on it, it’s fine if you found it a little technical. If this article is your first exposure then by the end of the article you would be able to understand SINSO without getting submerged with the technical terms.

To better understand SINSO, it is vital to understand certain concepts first before diving into SINSO fully . The concepts includes but not limited to Web 3.0, on-chain storage, decentralization and data governance.

Decentralization:

this is the most basic aspect of blockchain technology as a whole, and if you have any experience in the space, then you ought to know what decentralization actually is. The concept simply refers to spread of control, authority, decision-making etc over different network, nodes or entity instead of a single central one. It avoids a central point of failure or attack, discourages exploitation and promotes transparency.

On-chain Storage:

Storage is basically a way, method or space where something is stored or kept. The term is associated with storage within the blockchain space. The opposite of decentralization is centralization, where control or authority resides at a central point rather than distributed. This obviously has a single point of exploitation and lacks transparency. A storage in a centralized system would be considered a off-chain storage, as it is not within the blockchain.

Data Governance:

As the name implies, it is the process of managing data; the accessibility, usability, integrity and security of the data. This is usually based on some policies or standards. So in blockchain terms, it has to do with how users data are access, who can access the data, who is in control of the data, the integrity & security of the data.

Web 3.0

This is the “saviour that we are all envisioning to save us from the dictatorial and tyrannical hands of the big companies and centralization”. Web 3.0 is an upgrade on web 2.0. Unlike with web 2.0 where few entities or organisations are in complete control of, web 3.0 takes this autonomy and decentralises it. Everybody is in charge.

Now that we understand the basic terms, let’s see what SINSO is.

SINSO is a web3.0 infrastructure simplifying decentralized storage and data governance.

SINSO accomplishes decentralised storage and data governance through Filecoin. Ok, so what is Filecoin?

To understand Filecoin, let’s talk about IPFS first.

Interplanetary File System:

A project building “peer-to-peer” file sharing system. The important term is the “peer-to-peer” as it’s the underlying concept behind IPFS. To understand better, let’s compare it to the current web protocol(s), http(s).

When you get on your PC, and pull up “Facebook website”, you are using the https protocol. You send a request to the server hosting the “Facebook website” and the server returns the website to you if everything remains ideal, that is. One thing to note by the way, is that the content here is not permanent because if the server/servers should crash then that whole content goes down.

On the contrary, if it were to be IPFS, it would be something that goes like this; you get on your PC, then asks for who closest to you has the said “Facebook content”, then the closest peer sends the requested content. Who/what is being asked the question? A distributed/Decentralised network.

Filecoin:

This is a Decentralised storage network, that allows users to rent and buy storage space. It is built on IPFS. So if Filecoin is a storage network based on IPFS, that means, Filecoin storage network is a “peer-to-peer” network. Another way to put this would be, users who have storage space rents out the space to other users that are in need of storage space. Note that, users are incentivized to actually rent out space. And clients pay to store and retrieve data. It also offers a wide range of applications for Web 3.0 data governance, and the upcoming FVM will facilitate the adoption of Data DAOs (Decentralised autonomous organisations). End-to-end encryption is used.

Middlewares and infrastructures have to be developed to facilitate the transition of DApp from web 2.0 to web 3.0. SINSO is an infrastructure based on Filecoin that allows DApp developers to quickly and efficiently build applications in the Filecoin ecosystem and collaborates with storage providers.

That is, SINSO builds middlewares/tools that allows for data storage via Filecoin storage resources(remember Filecoin is a large ecosystem of storage resources). SINSO allows dApps to access decentralised storage network resources and data governance by “bridging” them to the Filecoin ecosystem.

SINSO has built the following products;

SINSO Getaway
SINSO DAPP Cube
SINSO Data Land
SINSO DAC

The four products above all have their own peculiarities. In subsequent articles, I will try to explain these products in simple terms as much as possible.

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