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Pakit Storage

Pakit is BelizeChain's sovereign decentralized storage layer — a content-addressed MerkleDAG engine with P2P distribution, ML-driven optimization, and on-chain proof verification. It replaces the earlier reliance on legacy IPFS/Arweave infrastructure.

Architecture at a Glance

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Applications: Nawal · Kinich · BNS hosting  │
│  LandLedger documents · Maya Wallet files    │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  REST API (FastAPI)  ·  Storage engine       │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  ML optimization: compression, dedup,        │
│  prefetch, peer selection, network tuning    │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Deterministic MerkleDAG core                │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  P2P network: Kademlia DHT + gossip          │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  On-chain: StorageProof pallet (index 38)    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Key Capabilities

  • Content-addressable storage — every block is identified by its hash; content never changes in place
  • Multi-algorithm compression — ZSTD, LZ4, Brotli, and LZMA, with ML-selected algorithms (>3x average compression)
  • Deduplication — SimHash + locality-sensitive hashing to find near-duplicate content
  • P2P distribution — Kademlia DHT for discovery and gossip for propagation
  • On-chain proofs — Merkle proofs of storage are verified by the on-chain pallet-storage-proof

Documentation Map

Running Pakit

git clone https://github.com/BelizeChain/pakit-storage.git
cd pakit-storage
pip install -r pakit_requirements.txt
python api_server.py            # REST API on :8001

On the Ceiba testnet, Pakit runs behind the shared reverse proxy at /api/pakit/. See Testnet.

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