Sovereign S3
Storage as a service with guaranteed prices and free egress — a contracted bandwidth SLA for every terabyte you paid for. Start as a customer of our global storage; supply your own NAS into it when you're ready.
6.7 Mb/s / TB
Contracted bandwidth for every TB you paid for
Free egress
Guaranteed prices, no egress fees
Supply your pools
Contribute your NAS to the global network
The price of getting your data out.
Cloud storage is sold on price per gigabyte and quietly priced on the way out. Rates drift, egress is metered, and when you actually need your data back the transfer speed is best-effort — with a bill for pulling it out arriving on top.
For creators sitting on terabytes of high-bitrate footage, for power users, and for the IT shops supporting whole fleets of small businesses, the numbers that matter — a price that holds, and how fast I can get all of this back — are the ones nobody guarantees.
Buy the service, then supply it.
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Storage as a service, to start
You begin as a customer of our global storage: an S3-compatible endpoint you buy access to, with the capacity you need and nothing to run yourself. Prices are fixed in advance — what you sign up for is what you pay.
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Free egress, SLA bandwidth per TB
No egress fees, ever, and a contracted bandwidth floor for every terabyte you paid for — a measurable restore speed, not best-effort. Getting your data back is something you can plan around, not discover during an outage.
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Then supply your own pools
When you're ready, integrate your own NAS and contribute storage pools into our global infrastructure — turning capacity you already own into part of the network. S3-compatible MinIO backends are provisioned over a private WireGuard network by an idempotent, scripted layer.
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Private by purchase
Access is bought through SureVoucher, an anonymous token mint, so the storage service is paid without ever handling the buyer's payment identity.
People whose data is the work.
Creators and studios carrying terabytes of video and high-bitrate footage. Power users who keep large personal archives. Managed-service and city-wide IT shops supporting whole fleets of small businesses.
Each needs the same thing to start: a price that holds, free egress, and a restore they can time. And anyone sitting on spare NAS capacity can go further — supplying storage pools into the global network instead of leaving them idle.
Buy first, supply next.
| Milestone | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| NAS integration + storage-pool provisioning (MinIO over WireGuard) | Running | Idempotent, scripted, with tests |
| SLA bandwidth per TB + free-egress enforcement | In progress | Measurement + floor |
| Storage-as-a-service billing at guaranteed prices | In progress | Metered access |
| Anonymous payment rail (SureVoucher) | In progress | Integration |
Figures on this page are targets and internal measurements at proof-of-concept stage. The source is available for inspection; commercial rights are reserved for partners, investors and the spin-off companies each project seeds.
Sell the service, open the supply.
The proof runs to launching storage as a service at guaranteed prices with free egress, showing the bandwidth SLA holds per terabyte under real load, and opening the supply side so customers can contribute their own NAS pools into the global network.
Sovereign S3 spins out of Research ByIQ once the SLA holds under a paying deployment.