Phala Network, a Polkadot-based project focused on data privacy preserving protocol, has announced a partnership with Bluzelle. They have chosen Bluzelle’s decentralized database as one of their off-chain data storage solutions for their main product, Web3 Analytics (winner of Web3 Foundation Grant).
Everytime when you are browsing a mobile app or website, your data and footprints are collected and stored in a centralized server. You have to accept their privacy agreement in order to use their service. However, data breaches are happening on a daily basis. Just a few days ago, the Singapore-based e-commerce platform Redmart encountered a data security incident where 1.1 million of user accounts were illegally accessed. This has become a rising concern.
Phala aims to provide confidential computation and data protection service for enterprises and users. Web3 Analytics(W3A) is Phala’s flagship product — a Web3 alternative of Google Analytics, returning data ownership back to the users. It collects all the mobile and web app data from the users and only stores it in their personal data warehouse. Users can choose to share, lend, monetize or even revoke other’s access any time. Through W3A’s smart contract, developers can run analytics approved by data owners without compromising their privacy.
This shares the same mission as Bluzelle to protect data privacy and security. We are both playing critical roles in the advancement and adoption of Web 3.0. Bluzelle is a decentralized data network that enables blockchains and dapps to manage data in a secure, tamper-proof, and highly scalable manner. Bluzelle is powered by Cosmos and its BFT technology Tendermint and is designed to be interoperable for any blockchains. We will provide Phala with these benefits:
Decentralized & secure. Bluzelle fills a gap in Phala’s tech stack to achieve full decentralization. Our database is operated by thousands of community nodes without a central authority. Each user on W3A can own a data wallet in the BluzelleDB and our consensus engine only allows data owners to access and update the data. This is a great fit in what W3A is trying to do.
Scalable. W3A collects a lot of data from apps and this will only grow exponentially as the number of users and on-chain activities grow. While scaling with traditional database is complicated and resource-consuming, it’s simple to add capacity on the Bluzelle network by increasing the number of nodes.
Highly reliable. BluzelleDB provides multiple replication across different nodes, which will eliminate any single point of failure. Data will always be available for W3A to retrieve.
“As a protocol providing solutions to privacy-preserving issues of blockchains and Internet databases, we hope to revolutionize the traditional pattern of storage and replace it with a decentralized way. Cooperating with Bluzelle, a famous and mature decentralized storage protocol, we believe Polkadot ecosystem will be empowered with improved ability on decentralized computing and storage.” — Marvin, CEO of Phala Network
“The consumer world is now waking up to the data privacy issues they are facing. They are becoming more dis-trustful of companies. As defi has broken out as the first major use case for blockchain, data privacy is next. Phala has found a specific space within the Polkadot ecosystem and by working together we can bring better privacy to projects within Polkadot and outside it.” — Pavel Bains, CEO Bluzelle
About Phala
A Substrate-based confidential smart contract blockchain on which you can develop confidential-preserving and privacy-first blockchain apps. Member of Substrate Builders Program starting lineup. Recipient of Web3 Foundation Grant.