Public chain data silos have always been a pain point in the Web3 ecosystem. Recently, there’s an interesting technical direction—some teams are pushing for cross-chain storage bridging solutions, with the core idea of enabling data from leading public chains like Ethereum, Solana, and Sui to truly interoperate and flow.

The specific application scenario can be understood as follows: you mint an NFT on Ethereum, and its metadata doesn’t have to be locked on Ethereum’s storage. Instead, it can be stored in a cross-chain storage protocol, and then be called and displayed in real-time on a Solana metaverse platform. This way, the same digital asset can have ecosystem applications across multiple chains.

Even more interesting is that this direction has evolved from individual protocol innovation to industry collaboration. Several mainstream protocols are jointly promoting the development of cross-chain storage standards and are organizing a Cross-Chain Storage Alliance. This means that in the future, data flow between different public chains may follow unified standards, rather than each one developing its own system.

From a technical perspective, this addresses a very practical issue of Web3 fragmentation. Free data flow can indeed open up many possibilities, such as cross-chain aggregation of DeFi applications, cross-ecosystem NFT display, and cross-platform use of gaming assets. Of course, how to achieve these while ensuring security and decentralization still requires further refinement.