Last time, we wandered through the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS)—a place where files live not on a centralized corporate server farm, but in a vast, open garden tended by everyone. We saw how IPFS reshapes the way files are tended and harvested, offering resilience, speed, and censorship resistance.

But this wild garden has a flaw: without gardeners, seedlings may wither. In IPFS, without someone willing to "pin" a file, it can quietly vanish. There’s no built-in reward to keep files alive, no promise that your treasured uploads will survive the seasons. The IPFS garden is built on goodwill—and goodwill, beautiful as it is, doesn't always pay for hard drives and uptime.

That’s where the next chapter begins.

To build a…