Data Pond

The open storage layer for public-domain works

Non Profit

Public knowledge still runs on private servers

Most public-domain works live on one company's servers. When that company closes or changes its terms, the public loses access. Data Pond stores these works permanently on open, audited infrastructure, and lets anyone check that a copy hasn't been altered.

  • Files on a single company's servers can be deleted, paywalled or lost.
  • Links break and formats age, so digitised works slowly disappear.
  • There is no shared, audited way to prove a digital copy hasn't been altered.

What problem are we solving?

01

D-SAFE Network - UniMarc

Need one audited storage layer to build on, instead of each writing their own blockchain code.

02

Open-Source Developers

Need documented, audited building blocks to store and verify public-domain data.

03

Standards & Certification Bodies

Need an open, non-profit technical standard they can review and certify.

04

Public Digital Archives

Need their files to stay online and provably unaltered, whatever happens to any one provider.

Roadmap

2024
Security Audits
2025
Research
2026
Live Launch
Go-to-Market
Developer documentation launch
2027
Marc certifications
Developers community
Grant applications
Go-to-Market
Grant program applications
Sister-startup integrations