Fetch.ai Partners with Zus to Deliver Safe and Secure Storage Solutions

Fetch.ai is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Zus.Network to provide a comprehensive, secure, and scalable storage solution tailored to the needs of Fetch.ai projects and its customers. This collaboration addresses business continuity, operational resilience, and compliance requirements while mitigating vendor risks and enhancing security.

Key Objectives of the Partnership:

1. Enhanced Business Continuity and Security
   Zus Network offers a complementary solution to traditional cloud services such as AWS by providing an "on-prem-like" storage approach. Through distributed storage and advanced technologies like Proxy Key re-encryption, Split Key security, and Data Distribution, Zus ensures:

• Full enterprise data ownership.

• Protection against third-party data breaches.

• Business continuity during outages or disruptions.

• Unique identity on the blockchain for each dataset, providing cryptographic provenance and unmatched security for data stored on the network.

3. Reducing Vendor Dependency Risks
   Overreliance on single cloud providers, such as AWS, introduces significant operational and security risks. Zus acts as a secondary insurance layer for Fetch.ai projects, mitigating risks from:

• Downtime and outages.

• Data breaches.

• Policy changes affecting crypto clients.

5. Alignment with Compliance Standards
   Fetch and Zus will collaborate on SOC/ISO documentation to ensure alignment with customer compliance needs. This initiative strengthens Fetch.ai's position in enterprise adoption while addressing critical audit requirements.

6. Expansion to High-Performance Storage Needs
   Fetch.ai and Zus will expand testing to Hot Plus for active storage and high-performance workloads. Key initiatives include:

• Demonstrating Zus's reliability and speed by scaling Fetch's data for frequent, high-performance access.

• Publishing detailed performance reports on workload time improvements, cost savings, operational efficiency metrics, and audit-ready documentation.

• Transitioning Fetch's backup and disaster recovery (DR) data to Zus Hot Minus for long-term storage.

• Integrating Zus as an ongoing secondary storage solution to complement AWS.

• Exploring enterprise adoption of Hot Plus for high-frequency workloads (e.g., trading data).

8. Enabling the creation of jobs in a new category of storage service providers akin to miners for Bitcoin currency or drivers for Uber.

9. Deploying and Storing Fetch AI Agents
   Zus enables Fetch developers to seamlessly deploy and store their AI Agents while providing dedicated, secure drives for each customer to manage specific models and training datasets. Key benefits include:

• Customized Storage: Developers can allocate isolated drives for different clients, ensuring data separation and security for AI models and training data.

• Scalability: Zus supports large-scale AI workloads by offering flexible, high-performance storage for active and long-term data.

• Collaboration: Fetch customers can use shared drives for individual customer storage environments for AI model updates, collaboration on training datasets, and performance monitoring.

• Resilience and Compliance: With advanced encryption technologies and full data ownership, Zus ensures AI deployments meet enterprise security standards while remaining compliant with SOC/ISO requirements.

11. Provenance, Transparency, Tracking of AI training data and models

• Legal concerns surrounding AI derivative works---such as ownership, privacy, and control over creative expression---are gaining prominence. Companies like OpenAI acknowledge challenges related to using unlicensed copyrighted materials for training AI. To mitigate risks, developers must prioritize securing training data, ensuring transparency, and tracking metadata, tags, and prompts used to create AI outputs. These measures enable reproducibility, verify authenticity, and clarify user intent, helping businesses avoid intellectual property disputes while demonstrating compliance and mitigating liability risks. Zus addresses AI's legal challenges by providing comprehensive provenance, transparency, tracking, privacy, and security for all prompt data and models. This ensures the integrity of AI-driven workflows while safeguarding both AI developers and content creators, offering a robust solution to navigate complex legal landscapes.

Benefits to Fetch.ai and Its Customers

• Enhanced Security: Data Distribution, Proxy Key encryption, and Split Key protection ensure only Fetch.ai, its customers, and designated users can access sensitive data.

• Operational Resilience: Near-instant recovery capabilities reduce downtime during incidents, ensuring uninterrupted business operations.

• Full Data Ownership: Enterprises retain full control and ownership of their data, minimizing exposure to external breaches or policy changes.

• Compliance Readiness: Zus' solutions simplify compliance and support Fetch.ai's enterprise readiness by reducing auditor concerns about vendor dependency and data security.

• Energy-Efficient Storage: Zus aligns with Fetch's ESG goals, appealing to socially responsible investors by delivering energy-efficient decentralized storage solutions.

• Leadership in Innovation: Zus demonstrates Fetch's commitment to the crypto ecosystem by leveraging blockchain-powered solutions with real-world enterprise utility.

• Job Creation: This partnership pioneers a new market for decentralized storage providers, fostering economic opportunities similar to Bitcoin mining and gig economy roles.

• AI Agent Management: Fetch developers can securely deploy, store, and manage AI Agents, models, and datasets with customizable drives for customers, enhancing operational flexibility and collaboration.

• Comprehensive tracking, transparency for all prompt data and models: This safeguards the integrity of AI-driven workflows while protecting both developers and content creators, providing a strong foundation to address complex legal challenges.

Quotes from Leadership

• Humayun Sheik, CEO at Fetch.ai: "At Fetch.ai, we envision a decentralized future where connectivity and innovation know no bounds. Partnering with Zus Network allows us to amplify our vision by integrating secure, scalable storage solutions that empower our AI Agents and dynamic marketplaces to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital ecosystem."

• Saswata Basu, CEO at Zus: "Our collaboration with Fetch.ai represents a milestone in building resilient, decentralized storage infrastructure that aligns with the future of AI-driven marketplaces. Together, we're not just storing data; we're enabling a new era of innovation, security, and scalability for enterprises and developers worldwide." 

How Fetch.ai Expands Market Opportunities for Zus

Fetch.ai's vision of creating a marketplace of dynamic applications brings unparalleled market opportunities for Zus Network. By integrating Zus into Fetch.ai's ecosystem, the partnership unlocks the potential of a powerful marketplace driven by search, discovery, secure, private, and dynamic connectivity.

Fetch.ai's ecosystem is built on four key components:

• Agents: AI Agents act as independent decision-makers that connect to the network and other agents. They represent data, APIs, services, ML models, and people, driving demand for decentralized and secure storage solutions like Zus.

• Agentverse: As a development and hosting platform for agents, Agentverse creates a thriving environment where storage demands can scale dynamically, empowering Zus to support a wide range of applications.

• Fetch.ai SDK: This empowers developers to seamlessly integrate AI Agents into the Agentverse, enabling dynamic connectivity with services like Zus for storage and redundancy needs.

• Fetch Network: Serving as the backbone of the system, the Fetch Network ensures smooth operation and integration, providing an open, modular, UI-agnostic platform for service assembly.

Zus stands to benefit as the Agentverse marketplace grows, offering decentralized storage solutions for agents and applications needing secure, efficient, and scalable data handling. Fetch.ai's self-assembling services foster an environment where Zus can thrive as a critical infrastructure partner.

This partnership solidifies Fetch.ai's commitment to delivering enterprise-ready solutions with enhanced compliance, resilience, and security. Zus' storage capabilities not only complement existing cloud solutions but also offer a robust and flexible alternative that meets the highest operational standards.

The trial run, performance benchmarks, and expanded testing of Hot Plus will serve as the foundation to showcase the unique value Zus brings to Fetch.ai's customers. Together, Fetch.ai and Zus are poised to set new standards for secure, compliance, and scalable data storage for AI.