“We leave pieces of ourselves all over the internet. Shouldn’t we decide where they live — and who can see them?”
🧠 Introduction
Every day, we create content — tweets, photos, messages, ideas — and share them online.
We treat it like self-expression. Platforms treat it like fuel.
That thread you wrote?
That video you posted?
That draft you saved to the cloud?
It’s your work. But it lives on someone else’s server.
The internet gave us expression.
But it took ownership off the table.
v03 is about putting it back.
🔍 The Problem: We Create, But Don't Control
Let’s break it down:
- Your Google Docs live in a cloud Google controls.
- Your memories on Instagram are subject to TOS updates.
- Your notes, thoughts, chats are scattered, centralized, and outside your reach.
You can't export them easily.
You can't prove authorship easily.
You can't even access them without a password to someone else's system.
What we call “digital presence” is often digital dependence.
That’s why we need personal vaults — owned by us, portable, and sovereign.
⚙️ Protocol in Focus: Carbide Network
One of the most promising approaches to this problem is Carbide Network.
It’s not just cloud storage. It’s personal data infrastructure.
- You store your data across a mesh of self-owned or community-owned physical devices.
- You control access, share permissions, and recovery keys.
- You own the metadata, timestamps, and files — cryptographically and legally.
This isn't just about privacy.
It’s about permanence, portability, and power.
Carbide treats you like the root user of your digital life.
🛠️ Experiments We’re Running
At v03, we’re actively building personal vault flows using Carbide and similar primitives:
- Vaults for creators to store drafts, final works, and notes with versioning + IP claims.
- Interfaces where sharing = granting signed access — not uploading to someone else’s server.
- Integration with creative tools (like Celluloid) to timestamp creative work at the moment of saving.
- Exploring device-to-device syncing where you own both ends (like your phone + local NAS).
We’re focused on building with data respect — not just convenience.
💡 The Bigger Picture
In a world run by platforms, our data isn’t really ours.
But in a world of personal vaults, the balance shifts:
- Platforms become optional.
- Sharing becomes consent-based.
- Your history becomes your asset — not a company’s.
This is about digital autonomy.
And it starts with storing your data on your terms.
🚀 Takeaway
You leave a footprint everywhere you go online.
v03 is about building the vault that holds that footprint — not to lock it away, but to own its destiny.
Because the next internet won’t ask for your data.
It will ask for your permission.