Decentralized storage network, Storj, has launched a program providing free storage to organizations participating in COVID-19 research.

The program follows widespread contributions from the crypto community toward the distributed scientific enquiry platform, Folding@Dwelling.

Organization researching COVID-xix qualify for 2TB in storage

On April 22, Blockchain-based cloud network, Storj, announced a program offering complimentary online storage to organizations engaged in research contributing to the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Storj's storage plan will provide qualifying organizations with 1 terabyte of costless cloud storage. Qualifying entities volition also receive a monthly bandwidth of one terabyte of storage on its Tardigrade decentralized deject platform for one twelvemonth.

Storj has committed upward to five petabytes of data and storage toward COVID-19 research in total, and will consider requests for resources exceeding one terabyte,

Storj comprises an open-source, decentralized file storage solution that uses encryption, file sharding, and blockchain to shop information on a peer-to-peer network.

Crypto community rallies to COVID-xix fight

In addition to providing financial and cloth donations, the crypto customs has rallied to provide support to the fight against coronavirus by donating computational resources to the distributed inquiry platform, Folding@Dwelling house, or F@H.

F@H was created by a global consortium of scientific enquiry labs to triage reckoner power towards medical research. In response to COVID-nineteen, F@H has launched a project to run simulations of the virus' molecular structure to inform the development of potential treatments.

On March 31, blockchain firm, Bitfury, appear that it had dedicated some of its nodes toward F@H. This news followed Ethereum (ETH) miner, CoreWeave, who diverted vi,000 GPUs towards the cause.

Other companies have sought to drive computational donations from the crypto community, including Golem and Tezos (XTZ). Nvidia has besides urged gamers to donate unutilized GPU computing resources to F@H.