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- Free allowance
- Gateway writes are described as 'free' but need a signature; the storage quota itself comes from a Discord channel, not a published number: 'Get free storage quota: 1.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Gateway writes are described as 'free' but need a signature; the storage quota itself comes from a Discord channel, not a published number: 'Get free storage quota: 1. Join Crust discord 2. Follow the pinned message on free-storage channel'. Default storage order term is 6 months. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | Free gateways list is published (github.com/crustio/ipfsscan lib/constans.ts, e.g. https://ipfs-gw.decloud.foundation). No bandwidth meter documented. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
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| Tooling | IPFS HTTP API-compatible authenticated gateway; also a standard IPFS Pinning Service endpoint usable cross-chain. rclone can read IPFS via the gateway; writes need the W3Auth signature flow. |
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| Composes with | Quota is granted per Discord/on-chain identity and the order is an on-chain transaction, so chaining means many funded Crust accounts — closer to a staking scheme than a free tier. |
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| Reliability | Write path is signature-gated; unauthenticated PUT returns 401 and reads of unknown CIDs return 403, so the gateway is not an open drop. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 3
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Gateway writes are described as 'free' but need a signature; the storage quota itself comes from a Discord channel, not a published number: 'Get free storage quota: 1. Join Crust discord 2. Follow the pinned message on free-storage channel'. Default storage order term is 6 months.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
wiki.crust.network/docs/en/DSMContributed storage decentralised pinning marketstorage/crust-network-dsmJSONcomparereport an error
- Free allowance
- Storage orders placed on-chain, each held for six months; the top four nodes submitting proofs share that file's reward
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- inferred2 sources; reasoned from other evidence
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-21
| Free tier | storage orders placed on-chain, each held for six months; the top four nodes submitting proofs share that file's reward unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | card card |
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| Egress | retrieval incentivised separately; no free allowance published |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | cli IPFS CID-based orders; Crust apps |
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| Tooling | crust CLI, IPFS, apps.crust.network |
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| Composes with | IPFS-compatible, so any IPFS gateway can read it |
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| Reliability | Reward goes only to the top four proof submitters per file, so payout is a race; unverified capacity reporting. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | wiki.crust.network/docs/en/DSM | 'Currently, each storage order would be stored on the Crust Network for six months'; 'Any node that submits corresponding storage proof will be added to the payout queue ... the top four nodes in the queue will get the reward of this file's reward' |
| 2026-10-21 | crust.network/ | capacity and node counters rendered as '0 TB' and '0'; no pricing table published |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "storage orders placed on-chain, each held for six months; the top four nodes submitting proofs share that file's reward","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read