🅰 Akord

akord.com

About

Overview

• Permanent data storage
  • Including photos, video, and audio player
  • Publishing with Markdown language
  • Pay with Stripe in local currency
• Permaweb Publishing
• API & Builder Tools
• Future collective profit-sharing model with $AKRD
  • $AKRD token
  • Time to drop Dropbox 2022-05-22
• Documentation: docs.akord.com
  • Potentially to host docs on Arweave: @AkordTeam 2022-01-19

Community and support

• Twitter: @AkordTeam
• Discord: discord.com/invite/YQVAyhFgAn
• Show: Striking Akord
• Blog: akord.com/blog
• Support: [e-mail]

Features

Vaults

• Encrypted

  • End-to-end encrypted (E2EE)
  • Private encrypted and share options
  • Encrypted files are available for anyone to download
  • Current AES-256 encryption requires
    $2.29x{10}^{32}$ years

• Public

  • Not end-to-end encrypted (E2EE)

• Terms of access (ToA)

  • You can add terms of access to be digitally signed before someone is added to a vault.

• Creating vaults and uploading files takes time depending on the data transactions settling on the Arweave network.

  • Based on the Arweave network demand and bandwidth.
  • See How long do transactions take to confirm?

• Revoke files

  • Cannot delete files because data stored on Arweave is permanent
  • Revoking prevents anyone from renaming, moving, downloading, or viewing the file.
    • The file continues to exist.
    • The file remains encrypted and is therefore useless.
  • Opportunity
    • Remove revoked files from the Arweave network: @adamshurwitz Tweet 2023-04-30
  • Resources
    • Arweave content moderation: Open info
    • Can I delete files from permanent storage?

Messaging

• End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging between Akord accounts

Security

• End-to-end-encryption (E2EE) with zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)
  • End-to-end encryption
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  • App
  • SMS
• Permanent data storage
  • Arweave protocol
• Decentralization with Akord Explorer
  • What if Akord no longer exists?
• See Akord protocol – open for builders 2022-09-26

Open-source

• github.com/Akord-com
• AkordJS: Interacting with vaults
  • AkordJS: privacy, collaboration and file management on Arweave 2023-01-30

Opportunities

Open

Download directories containing child directories (P0)

• The downloaded directory only contained it's "1st level of child files" and no "2nd level of directories".
• E.g. Download a build-oi folder.
  • Downloaded successfully
    • build-oi/artificial-intelligence-ai.md
    • build-oi/markdown.md
    • build-oi/open-information-oi.md
    • build-oi/skiff.md
  • Did not download
    • build-oi/.git/...
    • build-oi/hackmd/...
• See Discord post 2023-06-27

Show potential causes for files not uploading. (P1)

• Screenshot 2023-03-13

Upload multiple folders at once. (P1)

Desktop syncing app (P1)

• Similar to Dropbox and Google Drive's apps

Mobile apps (P2)

Keyboard shortcuts for basic actions (P2)

Fixed

Files show at the vault root level when they are uploaded instead of the current directory location (P0)

• Fixed 2023-06-20

This information is not financial or technical advice. Always consult a financial professional and do your own research.