Bell Curve Shelby Deep Dive: Bringing Decentralized Hot Storage to Crypto | Pranav Raval
Sep 23, 2025
Pranav Raval, Head of Core Infrastructure at Aptos Labs, dives into Shelby, a groundbreaking decentralized hot storage network. He reveals how Shelby can monetize data reads and support applications in streaming, advertising, and AI. Pranav discusses its architecture, including cross-chain integration and unique creator economy opportunities like proof-of-revenue and creator tokens. With Shelby positioned as a key coordination layer for data-driven apps, he paints an exciting picture of the future of decentralized infrastructure.
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Aptos’ Three Big Priorities
- Aptos positions itself as a global trading engine, high-throughput payments layer, and decentralized infrastructure provider.
- Shelby is built to be the decentralized hot storage tier that unlocks data-driven apps and monetizes reads.
Value Creation Meets Value Exchange
- Shelby combines a value-creation engine (data, streaming, ads, AI) with value-exchange (trading) to create a decentralized economic flywheel.
- Apps can generate revenue from data and then list or tokenize those revenue streams on-chain to fund further innovation.
Incentivize Paid Reads
- Incentivize reads: make data access payable so nodes prioritize fast, reliable serving and high-value content flows into the network.
- Pass a larger share of revenue to creators and apps to reduce take rates versus centralized platforms.