Modular Storage Infrastructure

Autonomous Data Availability & IPFS Sharding Engine.

AetherDA operates as an in-process verification pipeline: ingesting binary rollup payloads, distributing 2D Reed-Solomon polynomial proofs, and pinning content across planetary Kademlia DHT subnets.

Primary Ingestion Target
UnixFS 256KB Merkle-DAG
Sampling Algorithm
RS(64, 32) over GF(2^16)
Pinned Storage Array
148.82 TB
+1.4 GB/hr ingestion
Swarm Peer Count
1,842 Nodes
Noise encrypted links
Sampling Latency
38.4 ms
99th percentile
Storage Backend
NVMe Pool
RAID-0 / Block device
Swarm Engine

Distributed Hash Table (DHT) Topology

Real-time Kademlia distance routing algorithm resolving Content Identifiers (CIDs) across dynamic network hops and subnets.

Protocol: /ipfs/kad/1.0.0 K-Buckets: 20 Active Rings
Local Gateway Node Relayed Providers Ingested Shards
Swarm Status: Mesh Converged
Routing Telemetry
Target CID: bafybeic...74xa
Hop Iterations: 3 Hops (O(log N))
XOR Metric: 0x3F8A...21
Active Channels: 4,096 QUIC Streams
Kademlia Note: Node IDs and Content CIDs inhabit a 256-bit keyspace. Proximity metric is defined as the bitwise exclusive-OR (XOR) distance: $d(x, y) = x \oplus y$.
Cluster Ingestion

UnixFS Merkle-DAG Pinning Console

Ingest raw data blobs, compute Blake3 / SHA-256 multihashes, and chunk data into standard 256KB UnixFS blocks for cluster replication.

Cluster Pinning Quorum: 3 Nodes (Strong)
// Aether Cluster Daemon Initialized on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001
[DA-ENGINE] Swarm listener attached to libp2p QUIC multiaddresses.
[STORAGE] Local BadgerDB blockstore mounted. 148.82 TB indexed.
[READY] Waiting for UnixFS DAG chunking requests...
Transport Layer

Kademlia DHT Peer Swarm Inventory

Active K-bucket peers providing redundancy for the Data Availability sharding layer.

Peer ID / Multiaddr XOR Metric Distance Transport Security Round Trip (RTT) Bitswap State
12D3KooWJ...8F19 / /ip4/45.10.166.42/udp/4001/quic-v1 0x0F4A...19 Noise-XX (TLS 1.3) 12.4 ms ACTIVE_REPLICATOR
12D3KooWR...4C82 / /ip4/185.220.101.5/tcp/4001 0x1B82...44 Noise-XX (Yamux) 24.1 ms ACTIVE_REPLICATOR
12D3KooWS...99EA / /ip4/91.108.4.12/udp/4001/quic-v1 0x2A19...90 Noise-XX (TLS 1.3) 8.2 ms IDLE_DISCOVERED
Specifications

Modular Architecture & Data Pipeline

01
Zero-Copy BitSwap

Incoming block requests are answered directly from kernel page caches via `sendfile()` without passing through user-space serialization layers.

Protocol: /ipfs/bitswap/1.2.0
02
AutoNAT Traversal

Integrated STUN/TURN hole-punching and Circuit Relay v2 protocols permit nodes behind symmetric enterprise NATs to maintain high connectivity.

Protocol: /libp2p/autonat/1.0.0
03
Cryptographic Integrity

Multihash headers are computed using parallel Blake3 tree hashes, reaching hashing speeds over 12 GB/s on modern multi-core server CPUs.

Standards: CIDv1 / Multihash 0x1e
Upstream Standards

Ecosystem Stacks & Frameworks

Core implementations that AetherDA interfaces with across the network.

celestia-node ↗

Modular Data Availability node executing 2D Reed-Solomon light client sampling.

Apache-2.0 · Go
ipfs/kubo ↗

Official Go implementation of the IPFS protocol and Bitswap exchange engine.

MIT / Apache · Systems
rust-libp2p ↗

Modular peer-to-peer network stack with Yamux, Noise, and Kademlia DHT.

MIT / Apache · Rust
Layr-Labs/eigenda ↗

High-throughput Data Availability service secured by Ethereum restaking.

BUSL · Protocol