Neova - AI-Enhanced Decentralized cloud system

EthCC[8] · 2 Jul 2025 · 12:06

Quentin Clement demonstrates Neova’s AI-enhanced decentralized cloud. The presentation examines combining storage, security and computing with goals of data integrity, ownership and scalability for businesses.

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From EthCC[8], hosted by Ethereum France.

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[Music] Hello. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you guys for coming. Uh, is everyone ready? I can start. Yeah. Okay. Great. Sorry, it's lunch time, so I'm going to be quick on on the track. Um, so just to introduce you a bit, NOVA, uh, we built a Dein layer, a Dein protocol. uh we distributed all the storage systems in order to build the decentralized cloud. uh so that's quick introduction on it.

Uh going to review everything but first I want to compare a bit with what is existing right now. Um the centralization storage the companies the cloud everything is owned by data centers. So every data you are running for example in an application or you have a database well you are using AWVs GCP or VH well every providers uh in a centralized way you are using their computing power you are using and giving them access to your data and that's for me an issue uh so that's why we built Nova two years ago while we started to

develop it uh because I don't want my data owned by companies. I don't want just to share my pictures having their in Google image or whatever. I just want to have my documents uh as ownership. Uh so that's the ID but when we research a bit we find other issues and the first one was the security the security of the cloud we can find it right now with the issue with cloud fair uh last week or two weeks ago at same time as AWS downtown uh AWS crashed and actually every services in the world crashed at the same time. So that's a big issue for

a developer for a company. You need to have access to your data and you can't have access because you are not the owner of it. So that's the idea of having something very decentralized and of course using the cyber security of the web 3. Um so the dependency and of course the sovereignty. Um today if you are owning your data and you are hosting it in France you need to be regulated in France. But if you are using AWVs for example, the issue is the data is in the US. So if you have confidential documents, confidential research, innovation or whatever, you need to be regulated by the US and you that's not your market. So we have a sovereignty

problem on it. So that's what we wanted to do at Nova is building something where the ownership is giving back to users where of course the server entity can be chosen. Um because the idea is to have a big cluster having a modular infrastructure and just plug it as we can use. Uh not making big developments uh just to have something very easy to connect for example an infrastructure as a service system because a cloud needs to be a service I think. So we have that sovereign system so storage because our cluster can be in different part of the world. We have a cluster in France. We

have another one in Germany. We have of course some in China, in the US because we want to work with everyone. We are not just focusing the web three projects. We are also focusing institutions and web two um because the norms are quite the same right now. So the idea was to have something very easy to use to just provide a cloud computing system while we can just use it for security, ownership, transparency and I'll say confidentiality. We are fully distributed because we don't own the node. I don't have data centers. Uh I don't use it. I don't want it actually because your data needs to be everywhere in the world because the

availability of the data is very important. say the idea is to have it in a node network fully distributed redunded uh in order to have access everywhere every time and when you want it actually. So if I unplug the things that's the same things you have access and of course the low latency being fast uh so that's the idea of the modularity we need to be scalable right now with the AI things with all the dep in world pushing a lot uh we need to be something where all the data can enter uh and we can use it everywhere so just to make something quite Well, quite tech uh so to explain a bit the

Nova infrastructure on that part is just that part. Uh so the cloud is clustered uh in order to just have the endpoint. Uh so you are a developer, you are a company, you have a database, you want to ask it like you are using AWS for example. Um you can connect it uh it's an endpoint. Uh so we have an API uh you are pushing it of course but we are generating all the encryption first uh I don't want to have access to that data and I'm pretty sure that you don't want to so the idea is running the service encryption when your data is going out your application where you are using our database or your database or whatever.

Uh so that encrypted services is pushing your files, your documents, your flows into our cluster. Uh so something very ashed actually uh of course we are using the shorting the splitting the redundancy in order to just have blocks uh and not have access to all the document and then our cluster going to just have original thing. uh we are using for example you are in France we're going to use a part of the node where network where the node are in France uh in the sovereign antico um so we are running that nodes through our community through companies for example because a company right now

don't use all the capacity they have uh so the idea is to deal something with them you are you have your data center you are you are using it okay but if you have 10 person for example and you want to monetize it, we can just plug an AVA node on it and you are of course storing some flows from us. So that's the idea to have very distributed things. We are using F3 not just IPFS. Uh IPFS is very great. So the cold storage of course is in IPFS. Uh but every application right now at the moment is very S3.

Uh so we made an API A3 to IPFS to convert all the flows we are using in the world right now. Uh and we can have regular call. Um so if you need like a node storage you can just push it on the cache of our cluster you can recover all the data and then of course uh you can run the application on the time why we are using it well we need to have the transparency we need to use the web three things say we need to have smart contracts our nodes since we are focusing on the regulation um the node spends through smart contract. Uh so we

need to cover where is the location, how much downtime you have, if we need to short it, we if we need to recover it, if we need something everything is spending through the smart contract because we can reverify it of course. So for a web to institution for example, we need to have something very covered in the low systems. The transparency of course with Ethereum you can check everything. It's encrypted at the beginning so no worries but if you have your key your private key you can just recover it and then of course the privacy uh we are web three you have your data we don't have it so we are covering the privacy system the confidentiality

it's quite same as everything on the web as I present at the beginning our business model is quite simple we don't want to reinvent everything it's like a subscription a cloud use you pay as you used our cloud we can also tailor made weight cloud solution and I love it actually because I want to work with project if they have a specific issue I have the team to cover it so we can tailorate some things to have like a nova sub layer if you want to have your node network running for an like a jurisdiction or a lawyer they need to have it on their computer So we can just have a white level things and then since

we needed to have a test on our cloud we also developed applications and the first application we developed to test our cloud was a drive uh in order to target the B2C also uh if you want to host your document you can host it and you are owning uh on owning it for example and we are right now developing the nail sign system an electronical signatur system based on ZKP. So it's a proof identity in order to sign a document, a contract. Uh because it's better to sign from your identity and not just from an email.

We are in P right now. So the test net um so we are on boarding companies institutions. If someone want to try it uh well feel free to connect because we want to have it. We don't have paid buck. We don't want it. We just want to tailor it solution and work together. And of course, we need to have a circular economy. So, we have a token. Well, we're going to launch it uh in September, October, more or less. The idea is to have the B2 things, but also our cloud in a circular economy in total. So, we have our token in order to just have everything through the same currency and not just fiat or euro or dollar. We are making it for everyone

and the drive actually is in public beta right now. We're also raising so well that's the idea of scaling our team for example because we want to have more development power uh because we want to have more solutions and develop more use case. Every application we want to do like the drive like the electronical systems is to enter a real use case in the real world and not just making another things. We we collect feedbacks from companies and that's it. If you have any question or something feel free to ask.

Are you building your own storage provider network or are you pinning on top of IPFS? We are using IPFS but we tailor made the nodes in order to have neova node based on IPFS. We are not using the public system storage of IPFS. Understood. Thanks. Well, thank you everyone and enjoy. Welcome. Just crystal. [Music]