Your first project

A project is a prism: a namespace on the decentralized network that holds your encrypted file index, plus the configuration that goes with it. Creating one takes a single form.

From the dashboard, click New Project. If you are signed out, the button sends you to the login page first.

1. Name it

Give the project a name and, optionally, a short description. The name is yours to choose; the network identifier is derived automatically.

2. Encryption

The defaults, secp256k1 and aes-256-gcm, are right for almost everyone. You can add a project password as an extra layer: it is combined with your key, so opening the project later requires both.

3. Storage providers

Connect at least one storage bucket. This is where your encrypted file shards will physically live. The form supports AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Scaleway, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage; each preset asks for non-secret location metadata and the URL of your storage signing service. See Connect storage for details and for how to create a bucket if you do not have one.

You can connect several providers. With more than one, file shards are spread across them, which lets a file survive a provider outage.

4. Network and funding

The network selector shows where the prism will be created; on the demo platform that is the Demo network. You can also fund the project with DPC in the same transaction, which saves a later trip to the Tokens tab.

5. Create

Confirm the summary and sign. Creation costs 1,000 DPC, taken from your account balance. After the transaction confirms, the project appears on your dashboard with its own Storage, SDK, Providers, Members, Tokens and Settings tabs.

Next step: connect storage.