Data-Center Storage
Privacy Storage Investment: Flexible Options, Strategic Growth, and Long-Term Returns
DEVPN offers unique investment opportunities for investors interested in participating in our network.
Beyond our $DEVPN token, investors can participate as storage owners in our hybrid privacy storage, where their investment in expanding the DEVPN ecosystem generates returns based on usage.
VPN privacy storage operator key features
DEVPN's storage operators enjoy the following benefits:
Suited for small, mid and large-sized investments DEVPN offers privacy storage operators several flexible investment options to accommodate different budget levels, including small, mid-sized, and large investments. By investing in various percentages of a storage solution, operators gain co-ownership of dedicated devices linked to a specific share of user revenue.
Suited for private cloud owners DEVPN allows third-party private cloud owners to collaborate by contributing dedicated storage to our privacy-focused decentralized network. Those that meet our strict criteria can enter into contracts with DEVPN to optimize their ROI and manage their operational costs more flexibly.
High usage and returns DEVPN positions its initial storage hardware as flexible assets, strategically deploying them according to growth, expansion, or geographic needs based on supply and demand. This approach continues until a critical user base establishes core requirements for global locations.
Guaranteed usage DEVPN provides a hybrid privacy storage environment where we ensure that both private third-party cloud storage and our own leased units across the US and Europe are consistently utilized to offer and maintain a truly balanced, privacy-focused hybrid storage solution.
First come, most served DEVPN storage investors benefit from continuously scaling income without a technical income ceiling, unlike VPN nodes. While returns are distributed fairly, DEVPN applies a multiplier to reward longer investment durations, enhancing rewards based on the length of investment. This makes storage investment particularly appealing for low-risk and long-term DeFi investors.
No technical skills needed Investors in privacy storage benefit from a hassle-free investment experience, as they are not required to actively manage the environment. DEVPN handles the full management and operation of all components, ensuring optimal performance across our network.
Global storage placement DEVPN privacy storage excels compared to most cloud storage providers by utilizing decentralized technology spread across various locations, rather than relying on a single storage unit or location. With core data centers in the USA and Europe, along with private cloud partnerships located globally, our users benefit from fast and reliable connections, as well as optimal privacy and safety.
Future proof DEVPN’s decentralized storage approach, supported by its technical and organizational structure, facilitates scaling into new regions, such as Euro-Asia or South America, as part of our global growth strategy. This design enables us to grow globally based on user demand in coordination with our DAO, either by leasing equipment in data centers or partnering with third-party operators.
Lease & partner node priority DEVPN anticipates a gradual transition from leased to owned storage hardware due to our strategy of partnering with third-party private cloud providers. This approach ensures long-term support for these investments and provides transparent, fair upgrade paths for both investors and third parties, with transitions to owned hardware coordinated with our DAO.
Privacy storage usage and income
DEVPN investors participating as privacy storage operators are part of a combined ownership model in storage units across data centers where DEVPN will initially place its leased storage equipment.
Since DEVPN uses a decentralized storage approach, operators will see their units handling significant usage. Income is based on user-driven activity monitored across all storage locations in our network. Although demand may vary slightly by location, income distribution will generally be fairly even, reflecting the nature of our technical solution in comparison to how VPN nodes operate differently.
For investors, this presents a lower initial risk-to-reward balance compared to our VPN node investments, making it more appealing for mid- to long-term commitments, while our VPN node investments are better suited for short- to mid-term opportunities.
First come, most served
Storage investing, as a trade-off, offers a continually scaling and growing reward opportunity with no cap on growth, even as DEVPN expands its storage network. This contrasts sharply with VPN node investments, which, while highly rewarding, relatively easily will a limiting income ceiling.
Investing in our storage environment is a long-term commitment involving all stakeholders. This includes providing users with a technically secure and private environment, managing contracts with data centers, partnering with third-party private cloud providers, and offering our investors a highly competitive and differentiated platform in a market where most competitors overlook user privacy.
As such, investing in privacy storage offers early investors the potential for substantial, near-limitless growth in returns and to emphasize our long-term commitment to loyalty, DEVPN applies an incentive that rewards investors with a higher percentage of revenue based on the duration of their investment.
The income from our global storage usage is divided equally and fairly among investors, with a multiplier factor that rewards the percentage of returns based on the duration of the investment. This means that the longer an investor participates, the greater their share of the rewards.
Lease & partner node priority DEVPN expects a slower increase in leased storage equipment compared to our leased VPN nodes, primarily due to a strategic approach of scaling by partnering with third-party private cloud providers.
Topics such as the timing of transitioning from leased to owned equipment, prioritizing regional expansion, targeting new regions, or even creating additional services like our own white-label private cloud offerings in certain areas will be made publicly transparent to our DAO community.
By utilizing our DAO on these important topics, DEVPN ensures that all stakeholders have the opportunity to debate and collaborate on the future expansion of our privacy storage. This includes incorporating third-party partnerships into our community as part of partnership negotiations.
DEVPN expects to transition from leased storage to a fully DeFi-owned storage network in our core data centers in the USA and EU. Our initial forecasts suggest that this transition may not be financially attractive to our investors, nor is it technically necessary within the first 24 months of operation. As such, both factors have made us prioritize our leasing and partner model in the near term.
DEVPN storage operator licenses
A storage operator license includes everything you need: simply select your preference, follow our on-screen instructions, and you are ready to go, as our privacy storage is fully managed by DEVPN.
DEVPN Privacy Storage operator licenses include the following:
DEVPN node license key The key provides investors with access to our operator dApp, unlocking direct insights into all the details of their storage location and overview of the usage and earnings from their investment.
DEVPN Hybrid VPN license Each storage investor receives one or more Hybrid VPN licenses for personal use on our network.
Updates and maintenance covered Our storage includes comprehensive regular updates and maintenance provided by DEVPN in full cooperation of third-party cloud providers, ensuring that your storage investment remains compatible with the latest network enhancements, security protocols, and other updates.
Storage placement and user traffic All VPN users contribute to usage across our hybrid storage environment, and as such, each single user contributes to automatic and fairly distributed income across DEVPN storage investors.
Packages & pricing
Storage pricing will be communicated to investors in full detail, along with comprehensive prognosis data based on a third-party study to provide DEVPN with sufficient preliminary data to be able to propose our initial decentralized storage plan to the DEVPN DAO for examination and approval.
Below is an overview of our preliminary investment design for Privacy Storage:
10 Terabyte
12 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
10 Terabyte
24 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
10 Terabyte
36 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
50 Terabyte
12 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
50 Terabyte
24 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
50 Terabyte
36 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
100 Terabyte
12 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
100 Terabyte
24 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
100 Terabyte
36 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
250 Terabyte
12 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
250 Terabyte
24 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
250 Terabyte
36 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
500 Terabyte
12 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
500 Terabyte
24 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
500 Terabyte
36 months
$ xxx.xx
$ xxx.xx
No waiting list
Unlike our VPN core nodes, which operate with a waiting list, there will be no waiting list for Privacy Storage investors. This is because all storage investments are structured as long-term commitments, deliberately designed to be accessible and appealing to all sizes of investors within our community.
By not imposing a waiting list on our Privacy Storage, DEVPN ensures that every interested investor with a long-term, steady-growth mindset can participate and benefit from our expanding network without delay. We emphasize revenue distribution based on longevity and loyalty, which aligns better with the projected growth of our storage environment compared to the initial high start-up costs.
Storage operator upgrade paths
DEVPN is committed to rapidly growing and scaling into the world’s largest hybrid VPN provider.
Our storage offering is a complementary solution closely tied to our core flagship product and thus has high appeal to many of our users, who are predominantly expected to be highly privacy-oriented.
To achieve our goals, DEVPN will undergo various stages of growth. Our organizational design includes our DAO to ensure stakeholders that DEVPN not only provides a secure environment but also offers full transparency and investor insight into our financial goals and their progression through each stage.
By preemptively considering upgrade growth paths for our storage operators, DEVPN not only offers early investment opportunities but also provides upgrade paths that fairly reward investor loyalty.
Storage investors are rewarded fairly based on highly distributed user-based usage. Additionally, investors who remain involved for a longer period receive higher rewards as an incentive.
Duration upgrades DEVPN investor packages are offered with contract periods of 12, 24, or 36 months, with the option for investors to extend their contracts at any time. Extensions contribute to the overall duration, enhancing the revenue multiplier for the investor.
Storage upgrades Duration upgrades are not valid methods for increasing storage capacity of an operator account. This policy is in place to prevent unfair advantages, ensuring a level playing field among investors. For example an investor with a 50TB/12 month package is of course very welcome to purchase a 250TB/12 month additional package, but they will both be recognized as individual packages. To provide storage investors with an upgrade path that scales with our ecosystem's growth, we will introduce upgrade options, which will be coordinated through proposals and votes by our DAO. Involving our DAO ensures that storage upgrade paths are offered at the appropriate times, such as quarterly. This approach requires a thorough assessment of user growth and market conditions to ensure they align with expectations, thereby ensuring a well-managed ecosystem.
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