Auzen is a decentralized data storage and management platform designed to give users full control over their digital assets.
Built on Swarm and Ethereum, it enables secure, censorship-resistant, and on-chain storage, allowing individuals and organizations to store, organize, share, and monetize their data without relying on centralized platforms.
Tired of having your personal data stolen, exploited, or put at risk by centralized platforms? Auzen is here to change that!
- Store your data securely on a decentralized network.
- Control who accesses it.
- Monetize your data on your terms.
- Share with ZK-verified companies while ensuring authenticity and security.
- Contribute without fear—your input is immutable and protected.
https://youtu.be/H8Pgdw28jM4
Auzen utilizes swarm to upload data on the decentralized storage system, this allows for swarm to be run locally and therefore allowing users to run their own nodes. This implementation limits our ability to provide a fully functional link to our live product. However users can fully run our project by running swarm, zk servers and also the frontend.
In a world where personal data is constantly exploited, leaked, or controlled by corporations, Auzen puts power back into the hands of users.
By leveraging decentralized storage, cryptographic security, and smart contract-based permissions, Auzen ensures that data remains secure, private, and fully owned by its creators—no third parties involved.
Auzen's goal is to onboard users onto Web3 while keeping their data secure.
- User → Registers → Creates Vault → Uploads Data and Stores in Vault → Authorization Whitelist.
- Creates Group → Joins Group → Adds Vault to Group.
- User Joins Market → ZK Verification of Data → Adds Data or Vaults with Important Info (Description) → Earns.
- Company (AI Company Buying People’s Data) → ZK Verification → Buys.
- Company (AI Company Buying People’s Data) → Keyless Login → Buys.
- Buyer → Keyless Login → Buys.
- Users register their account (public or private).
- Privacy status can be updated anytime.
- Users can create groups (public or private).
- Anyone can join public groups since they are permissionless.
- Private groups require an invite from the creator.
- Group vaults are accessible to all members, and members can add their own vaults to the group.
- Users upload their data to Swarm securely.
- Users can create multiple vaults with customizable settings.
- Files and folders can be sorted and organized.
- Vault owners can authorize specific users to access files.
- Accessible vault content can be downloaded securely.
- This feature will allow users to sell parts of their data for new data creations.
- Still under development.
- Marketplace creation is admin-controlled to prevent duplicates.
- Users can request marketplace creation.
- Buying Data:
- Keyless buying (ZK keyless login) means users don’t need an account to purchase data.
- After a purchase, an event is emitted, and the backend listens to add msg.sender to the access list of the purchased file or data.
- Entering the Marketplace:
- Sellers submit data for sale.
- Sellers must set data duration and bond price (which can be 0 for free data).
- Sellers submit a witnessHash for ZK proof of data existence.
- Activity Count:
- Users’ activity count increases with every buy or marketplace contribution.
- Activity count helps users earn rewards.
- Admin distributes rewards to active users.
- Only users with activity counts can claim rewards.
- Fees are charged on every buy (currently only on purchases).
- Fee cannot exceed 20% of the bond price.
- Fees are in percentage format (e.g., 2000, 1500).
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ZK Verification
- gets ref Id
- has the file -- send it to the zk circute -- hash is attestation that the user owns the file
- generate a witness file, which is stored on the contracct, where users provides witnessHash to verify ownership of data
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XRPL -used as a payment transaction between buying and authorizing permissions.
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Swarm
- run a bee node --> generates an acc to sign transaction and contribute -- send funds to account buzz token/ sDai / gnosis (seeting up)
- interact with the local node (port 1633), backend interacts with swarm to uplad user data to swarm network
- before you upload a file --- postage batch --- upload -- ref in return used to retrive data.
- Further enhancements and additional features will be implemented.
- Keyless login
- company verification model
git clone https://github.com/nyuiela/Anzen
cd Anzen
make- Running the the swarm node.
https://docs.ethswarm.org/docs/develop/access-the-swarm/upload-and-download
- Running the ZK witness generator
The witness generator runs on
http://localhost:3031allowing the frontend to generate a witness file from the uploaded file.
cd zk
cargo build
cargo run --bin serve- Running the ZK prover and verifier
Runs the prover and verifier for the zk circuit on
http://localhost:3030, necessary for the frontend for prove generation and verifying the file(witness file).
cd zk/Expander
cargo build
cargo run --bin expander-exec --release -- --circuit-file circuit.txt serve- Running the frontend (nextjs)
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev