{
  "url": "https://blockindex.ai/coin/storj",
  "name": "Storj",
  "links": {
    "github": "https://github.com/Storj/",
    "website": "https://www.storj.io/",
    "whitepaper": null
  },
  "dScore": 29,
  "market": {
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    "marketCapUsd": 31740169.91577343,
    "volume24hUsd": 4378551.70817101,
    "priceChange7dPct": -2.53289679,
    "priceChange24hPct": -4.1056006
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  "source": "BlockIndex.AI",
  "supply": {
    "max": null,
    "circulating": 424999998.00000113,
    "circulatingPct": null
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  "ticker": "STORJ",
  "founder": "Shawn Wilkinson",
  "vcFunded": true,
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T06:00:39.358909+00:00",
  "fairLaunch": false,
  "launchYear": 2018,
  "description": "Storj (STORJ) is a decentralized object storage platform and an ERC-20 token that functions as the economic unit within a globally distributed cloud storage service. Originating from early project work dating back to a 2014 whitepaper and company formation activity around 2015, Storj evolved into a production-grade platform with a public production launch in late 2018 and a widely-cited V3 release in 2019. The project emphasizes S3-compatible APIs, zero-trust/zero-knowledge encryption, automatic file sharding and replication, and parallelized uploads/downloads to deliver enterprise-grade durability and performance while reducing centralized cloud provider dependency. Storj positions itself to address backup & recovery, active archiving, CDN origin use cases, and developer workflows that require programmatic S3 compatibility and scalable object storage.\n\nFrom a technical perspective, Storj is implemented as a set of distributed services (Satellites, Uplink, Storage Nodes) and uses the STORJ ERC-20 token on Ethereum as the payments and accounting mechanism for storage and bandwidth services. The token does not represent a standalone blockchain; instead it inherits Ethereum's consensus (post-Merge PoS) and on-chain history for transfers and holder metrics. The platform architecture focuses on client-side encryption (zero-knowledge), erasure coding / sharding for durability, and a global network of independent storage node operators who provide capacity and bandwidth. Developer resources and code are published on GitHub and the platform offers CLI tooling, SDKs and documentation targeted at enterprise and developer audiences.\n\nIn terms of tokenomics and market footprint, the supplied materials show a circulating supply near 422.97M STORJ and a total supply snapshot around 424.99M, indicating a very high percent of the supply in circulation. Historical price data in the provided files lists an All-Time High of $3.56 (Mar 28, 2021) and an All-Time Low of $0.04835 (Mar 13, 2020). Market snapshots captured in the supplied data put the token price near $0.1142 with a market capitalization around $48.34M and 24h volume of approximately $4.15M at the time of that snapshot. The supply and distribution history snippets referenced an initial mint and locked reserve structure (one analysis excerpt calculated a 49.0% locked reserve relative to an earlier 500M initial mint), and token sale proceeds and VC funding rounds are referenced in public materials.\n\nOrganizationally, Storj is associated with Storj Labs, Inc., and the supplied DScore extraction indicates a company-led governance model rather than an on-chain DAO; the project is documented as open-source and actively developed with public repositories and release notes. Recent release activity and product pages in 2025 show ongoing engineering effort and productization (object storage, Object Mount, Cloud GPUs, Production Cloud). CEO references in the extracted DScore material identify Colby Winegar (recent reporting) and the DScore field extractor marks the project as having an identifiable CEO and corporate entity. There are no documented on-chain governance voting systems in the supplied fragments and no major security incidents or chain freezes listed in the provided documents.\n\nEcosystem services and listings are broad: STORJ is listed on major analytics platforms (CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, Messari, CryptoCompare), and available on several Tier-1 centralized exchanges per the extracted materials (Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Crypto.com, Bybit and Bitget among others). Wallet compatibility includes hardware and software options such as Ledger, MetaMask, WalletConnect, Electrum and mobile custodial wallets like Coinbase. While many operational details required for a full DSCORE (exact vesting schedules, granular allocation percentages, contract decimals and launch timestamps) are missing from the provided fragments, the supplied materials present Storj as a mature, production-focused decentralized storage product with an ERC-20 token economy and ongoing commercial and developer adoption efforts.",
  "methodology": "https://blockindex.ai/dscore",
  "classification": {
    "layer": "Layer 2",
    "isToken": true,
    "consensus": "PoS",
    "parentChain": "ETH"
  },
  "dScoreComponents": {
    "autonomy": 0,
    "ageHistory": 13,
    "governance": 16,
    "nodeDistribution": 0,
    "initialDistribution": 0
  },
  "decentralizationVerdict": "Centralized Leaning"
}