DWETransfer

What: Lighthouse.storage is a decentralized storage solution that allows for read permissions on data. Unlike Web3.storage and IPFS, which are public, Lighthouse.storage enables you to determine who is able to decrypt and access the data based on on-chain conditions.

With this project, you can use Lighthouse.storage to share files and restrict access so that only authorized wallets can decrypt the data stored on IPFS.

Motivation: The objective of this project is to create a decentralized, serverless file sharing solution that enables easy sharing of private data. While IPFS and Web3.storage are excellent solutions for decentralized serverless file storage, they lack the ability to share private data on their own. This project aims to fill that gap by allowing you to share private data on these services and specify who can access it through decryption.

This project leverages Lighthouse.storage for encryption and access controls. XMTP is utilized to notify users that a file has been "sent" to them. This is accomplished through uploading the content, setting access control so that only their wallet can decrypt it, and providing them with a sharable link (hence the use of quotation marks around "sent").

The flow is similar to the web2 version of https://wetransfer.com/, but instead of using email notifications, it utilizes XMTP protocol to achieve a similar outcome.