ziidg

Ziidg is a fictional open-standard protocol and platform for decentralized data storage, computation, and secure sharing. It enables users to distribute data across a network of independent nodes while applying end-to-end encryption, access policies, and provenance tracking to preserve privacy and integrity.

Originating from an open-source collaboration in the early 2010s, Ziidg's first public release appeared around 2016 as Core software and documentation. It evolved through community-led iterations, with contributed implementations for clients, gateways, and developer libraries, and a modular architecture designed to accommodate various deployment scales.

Technically, Ziidg divides data into encrypted shards stored on multiple nodes, with clients controlling keys and access rules. The platform emphasizes verifiable computation on encrypted data, leveraging secure multiparty computation or trusted execution environments, and provides a tamper-evident ledger of data provenance. A basic incentive layer supports node participation through credits or a native token in some deployments.

In practice, Ziidg has been discussed in privacy, security, and distributed systems circles as a potential alternative to centralized cloud services. Real-world deployments have focused on privacy-preserving collaboration, research data sharing, and sensitive document management. Critics highlight performance, governance, and energy considerations as ongoing challenges.

Ziidg remains a subject of interest for researchers exploring decentralized architectures and privacy-centric computing.