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The current price of Storj is $0.02692 with a 5.64% change in the last 24 hours.
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Storj is a distributed cloud storage network. Files uploaded to it are encrypted on the client's own machine, split into pieces, and spread across thousands of independently operated storage nodes worldwide. The service presents an S3-compatible interface, so existing tools and applications can point at Storj with minimal changes, and the operators who supply disk space are paid in STORJ.
STORJ is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum. A live read of the contract on 11 September 2026 confirms 8 decimals and a total supply of 424,999,998 STORJ. The entire supply was created at inception; there is no mining, no staking emission, and no mechanism for the protocol to issue more. Bridged versions exist on Harmony and Energi.
One fact belongs up front, because it does not appear in older reference material. Storj Labs was acquired by Inveniam Capital Partners in October 2025, and on 26 July 2026 the company filed for voluntary Chapter 11 restructuring in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. The company states the filing addresses legacy liabilities rather than the operating business, and that customer service and node operator payments continue.
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Storj Labs was founded in 2014 by Shawn Wilkinson with co-founder John Quinn, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Ben Golub, formerly chief executive of Docker, later joined and led the company through its second-generation architecture. The timeline matters because the network has been rebuilt once:
2014 to 2017, the first network The original design used the SJCX token and a peer-to-peer model where individual users rented out space. A token sale in May 2017 raised roughly 30 million US dollars, and SJCX holders converted to the current STORJ ERC-20 token at a one-to-one ratio through October 2017.
2018 to 2019, the V3 rewrite The architecture was redesigned around satellites, erasure coding, and a formal reputation system. This is the network that operates today, and it shares almost nothing with the original implementation beyond the name.
2020 to 2024, commercial build-out General availability, enterprise features, S3 compatibility, and integrations with backup and media workflow vendors. In July 2024 Storj acquired Valdi, a GPU compute provider, adding rented compute alongside storage.
2025 to 2026, ownership change and restructuring Inveniam Capital Partners announced a definitive agreement to acquire Storj on 22 October 2025, with Storj continuing as a subsidiary. Voluntary Chapter 11 followed on 26 July 2026, alongside an open letter to the token community proposing a path to shared ownership of the reorganized company.
Storj's architecture is well documented and unusually specific, which makes it easier to evaluate than most decentralized storage designs.
Client-side encryption The uplink, the client library or CLI, encrypts data before anything leaves the user's machine. Keys are never sent to Storj, so neither the company nor any node operator can read stored content.
Segmentation and erasure coding Objects are broken into segments with a default maximum size of 64 MB, and each segment is Reed-Solomon erasure coded. The uploader pushes 110 pieces in parallel and stops once 80 have landed on distinct nodes. Any 29 of those 80 reconstruct the segment.
Distribution Pieces are placed for diversity, so no single operator, data center, or region can hold enough pieces to reconstruct a file or destroy one by going offline.
Satellites, auditing, and repair Satellites handle metadata, node discovery, reputation, billing, and repair coordination. They hold no decryption keys and cannot read stored data, but they are the least decentralized part of the system. They continuously challenge nodes to prove they still hold their pieces, and when healthy pieces for a segment fall toward the repair threshold they regenerate the missing ones onto well-reputed nodes.
The 29-of-80 ratio is the core of the design. A segment survives the simultaneous loss of most of the nodes holding it, at an expansion factor far below the three-times replication traditional cloud storage uses.
STORJ has a narrow and concrete role: it is how the network pays storage node operators. Operators are compensated for disk space held over time and for egress bandwidth served, including repair egress when satellites pull pieces from them to rebuild segments. Payout rates are set in dollar terms per terabyte and settled in STORJ.
Two consequences follow. STORJ is a payment rail rather than a governance or security asset, since node reliability is enforced through reputation and held amounts rather than staking. And because customers largely pay in fiat, the token sits on the payout side of the business rather than the revenue side. The 2026 restructuring materials raise the prospect of token holders receiving equity in the reorganized company, but that is a proposal, not a settled arrangement.
Storj is the decentralized storage network that most resembles a normal cloud product. The S3 compatibility is real, the durability math is published, and adoption has come through conventional enterprise channels such as backup vendors and media workflow partners rather than only crypto-native integrations.
Technically, it never asks the user to trust a node. Encryption happens client-side, erasure coding means no single node holds anything useful, and audits cost unreliable operators reputation and income automatically. Decentralization here serves durability and cost rather than ideology.
The general trade-off: Storj gives up on-chain verifiability of storage deals in exchange for an experience that a systems administrator can adopt without learning anything about crypto.
Security comes from several independent mechanisms:
The satellite layer is the concentrated point. Satellites cannot read data, but they hold metadata and coordinate the network, and a satellite failure affects the objects it tracks.
Storj is the clearest working demonstration that distributed storage can be sold as ordinary infrastructure: the durability math is public, the client is open source and actively maintained, and the network has served enterprise workloads for years. It is also a live test of what happens when the company coordinating such a network hits financial trouble. The architecture is built so data survives node failures; the 2026 restructuring puts the question of corporate stress in front of the whole sector.
STORJ is listed on centralized exchanges and trades on Ethereum decentralized exchanges. Availability and pairs vary by jurisdiction.
STORJ is often available on:
Common pairs include STORJ/USDT and STORJ/USD where supported.
STORJ can be held on an exchange, which is custodial, in any Ethereum-compatible self-custody wallet, or behind a hardware wallet using compatible software.
STORJ uses 8 decimals rather than the common 18, which some interfaces display incorrectly. Confirm the network before withdrawing, since the Ethereum, Harmony, and Energi versions are not interchangeable.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Storj is $0.02692 with a 5.64% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $164,534 representing a 88.02% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Storj is $11,440,958, ranking #655 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Storj is $11,440,958, calculated assuming the total supply of 424,999,998 STORJ is in circulation.
Circulating: 424,999,998. Total: 424,999,998. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, Storj traded between a low of $0.02649 and a high of $0.02853.
STORJ/USDTTether USDT0.02692 USDT
Coinbase will suspend BADGER and STORJ trading on Sept. 28 after a listing review, but customers can continue withdrawing both tokens.
Upbit and Bithumb will delist STORJ, JASMY and TT on Sept. 14 after warning issues remained unresolved, with withdrawals open until Oct. 14.
The decentralized storage firm says its network keeps running and its parent, Inveniam, backs the reorganization, as STORJ falls about 18% in 24 hours.
STORJ dropped 19% to $0.06 after Storj Labs filed voluntary Chapter 11 on July 26 to resolve legacy liabilities.
Storj Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to restructure legacy debt after raising roughly $35 million, but customer services will continue.
The decentralized data storage company says operations continue and proposes that token holders take equity in the restructured business — an unusual arrangement in bankruptcy.
