Cloud egress lock-in
AWS charges $0.09/GB to leave the platform. Multiply that by a petabyte and "portable" data stops being portable. Every hyperscaler does the same thing by design, and the bill lands the moment you try to leave.
Encrypted before it leaves your device. Sharded across the network. Verified by cryptographic audit. Drop-in S3-compatible.
Cloud storage works until it doesn't. The moment you need to leave, audit, or verify your data, the pain starts. Neburion was built to fix every failure mode below.
AWS charges $0.09/GB to leave the platform. Multiply that by a petabyte and "portable" data stops being portable. Every hyperscaler does the same thing by design, and the bill lands the moment you try to leave.
You can't prove your data is still there — you trust that it is. When a provider loses data silently, there is no third party you can call to verify, and your auditor has nothing reproducible to point at.
Decentralized storage almost always requires cryptocurrency, which immediately disqualifies enterprise buyers, healthcare systems, and the federal segment. Legal and volatility risk on top of every storage decision.
HIPAA and GDPR tooling typically costs $50K+/year on top of the storage bill. The compliance layer is never part of the product — it's an add-on you bleed for, from a second vendor, wired together by hand.
Four patent-pending innovations — filed with the USPTO in March 2026 — form the foundation of a genuinely compliance-first, tokenless storage network. Client-side encryption is the default. Cryptographic audit is the default. Per-object durability is the default. Drop-in S3 compatibility is the default. Every architectural decision is held in tension against a published constitution of invariants, enforced in code review and in continuous integration.
PoCA, ARM, EPoI, and DTN-SEL — filed with the USPTO in March 2026. Each solves a specific failure mode of existing distributed storage.
Cryptographic proof your data is still there.
Continuous, VRF-driven audit protocol that verifies every storage node holds the data it claims to hold. Every audit is reproducible by any third party from public inputs. No blockchain, no token — just signed Merkle proofs against published accumulator roots.
Per-object redundancy that adapts to what the data is worth.
Five durability tiers from 10-nines archive to 16+-nines resilient. Reed-Solomon erasure coding at 1.33x overhead for standard — 33% less than S3, 50% less than Storj. Customers choose durability per object, not per bucket.
Sybil resistance without a token.
USD-denominated deposits replace token staking for operator identity. Solves the sybil problem that every token-based network uses crypto to solve, without inheriting the legal and volatility risks of crypto. Enterprise-compatible by design.
Storage that works where the network doesn't.
Delay-tolerant networking primitives applied to distributed storage. Enables audit and recovery over high-latency, intermittently-connected links. Built for environments that break conventional cloud — field operations, maritime, disaster recovery, tactical networks.
Keys are generated and held on your device. The coordinator never sees them.
Ciphertext is erasure-coded into redundant fragments, tunable per object.
Fragments scatter across independent storage operators via the coordinator.
PoCA challenges every node continuously. Signed proofs land on the public log.
Any third party can replay the audit chain from public inputs with the open verifier.
Every token-based network has to explain itself to healthcare, finance, and federal buyers. We don't. Tokenlessness is a permanent architectural invariant and the foundation of the enterprise compliance segment — a legal moat that token-native competitors can't cross without a full rewrite.
Encryption keys are generated on the client and never reach the coordinator. An internal employee with full database access cannot read any customer file. This is not a premium feature — it's the only way the system is allowed to work.
The audit mechanism is cryptographically decentralized today. The substrate currently runs on a centralized Postgres epoch ledger with a documented threat model. The BFT DAG upgrade is planned, specified, and will plug into an interface that's already locked. Shipping a half-built consensus layer would damage credibility more than running on an honest centralized one.
The Nebula Compliance tier bundles PoCA audit trails, verified deletion certificates, geographic pinning with proof, and pre-built regulator documentation. What costs $50K+ elsewhere is the base of the tier.
There is no "the engineers will fix it." The founder is personally on call for every line of code that touches customer data, every incident response, and every architectural decision. No passing the buck.
How Neburion lines up against the incumbents on the axes compliance buyers actually care about.
| Capability | Neburion | AWS S3 | Cloudflare R2 | Backblaze B2 | Storj |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client-side encryption default | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| S3 compatible | Yes | Native | Yes | Yes | Gateway |
| Token required | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Verified deletion + audit | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Per-object redundancy | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Storage overhead | 1.33x | — | — | — | 2.7x |
| Egress floor | $0 | $0.09/GB | $0 | $0.01/GB | $0.007/GB |
Neburion is built and operated by Isaac Baker, a U.S. Army CBRN Specialist and the founder and CEO of Neburion. The company is bootstrapped, veteran-founded, and registered in Wyoming. The mission is singular: storage infrastructure that's genuinely compliance-first, without cryptocurrency dependencies or hyperscaler lock-in.
The technical architecture is anchored on four patent-pending innovations filed with the USPTO in March 2026. Every design decision is made against a published constitution of architectural invariants — tokenless, zero-knowledge, tenant-isolated, reproducible — enforced in code review and in continuous integration. Neburion is being built the way regulated infrastructure should be built: slowly, deliberately, and honestly.
Neburion is in a focused development cycle hardening the core architecture ahead of public beta — substrate seam, transactional outbox, content-addressed shards, signed messages, multi-tenant isolation fuzzer in CI, and production secret hardening. Early access is granted on a rolling basis to developers, compliance-focused teams, and pilot customers.
Pricing is locked at public beta. Early access customers receive founder pricing that stays with the account for life.
For developers kicking the tires.
For solo developers and side projects.
For small teams running production workloads.
For HIPAA, GDPR, and regulated workloads.
Final pricing locked at public beta. Early access customers receive founder pricing.
Neburion is in private alpha. The core platform has been built and is currently in a focused development cycle hardening the foundation — substrate architecture, cryptographic signing, transactional event bus, multi-tenant isolation testing — ahead of public beta in 1–2 months. Early access is granted on a rolling basis to developers, compliance-focused teams, and pilot customers.
No. Neburion is tokenless by design. Operator identity is established through USD-denominated deposits (EPoI), not token staking. Customer billing is in USD. Operator payouts are in USD. There is no Neburion token and there never will be. The tokenless framing is a permanent architectural invariant and is the foundation of the enterprise compliance segment.
The PoCA audit mechanism is substrate-agnostic by design. Neburion runs today on a centralized Postgres epoch finalizer with a documented threat model, which we describe honestly in our architecture spec. The BFT DAG substrate is the planned upgrade, scheduled for post-seed funding when a consensus specialist can be hired and onboarded properly. The interface the future DAG will plug into is already defined and locked — the upgrade is a drop-in swap, not a rewrite. Shipping a half-built BFT layer would damage credibility more than running on an honest centralized substrate, and so we have chosen the honest path.
PoCA (Proof of Custodial Audit) is a cryptographic audit protocol that does not require a blockchain. Storage nodes publish signed accumulator roots of the data they hold. An auditor selects nodes using a VRF seeded by the finalized epoch hash, issues Merkle proof challenges, and records signed responses. The entire audit chain is reproducible by any third party from public inputs using an open-source verifier. No token, no blockchain, no smart contract — just signed Merkle proofs against published accumulator roots.
No. Neburion is zero-knowledge by architectural invariant. Encryption keys are generated on the client and never traverse the coordinator. The coordinator stores ciphertext, hashes, and metadata only. An internal employee with full database access cannot read any customer file. This is enforced structurally and verified in code review.
Neburion is built and operated by Isaac Baker, a U.S. Army CBRN Specialist and the founder and CEO. The company is bootstrapped, veteran-founded, and registered in Wyoming as Neburion LLC. Isaac is supported by AI-augmented development tooling and architectural review, but he is personally accountable for every line of code that ships and every decision that affects customer data.
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