The rise of blockchains has created an inflection point that is driving the creation of a new “decentralized Internet”. With the rise of decentralized blockchain- based cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, momentum for the creation of a decentralized Internet has surged. Numerous projects have appeared that offer pieces of this decentralized Internet, from name lookup services to a world-wide shared storage system. But missing from amongst all of these pieces is a decentralized data layer for the decentralized applications being built on top of the blockchain.