Cash Drive
Cloud storage platform to monetise your data
Created on 25th June 2025
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Cash Drive
Cloud storage platform to monetise your data
The problem Cash Drive solves
Lack of Copyright Respect: Today, companies and individuals often train AI on unlicensed data—ignoring creators’ rights (e.g., the recent “Ghibli” controversy).
Sustainable Creator Ecosystem: Our platform lets you store your own “inspirations” in a private Drive, then tap into an AI assistant that uses only your files (and any purchased assets) as context.
True Ownership Transfer: When you acquire another creator’s work from the Marketplace, you gain complete, outright ownership—so it becomes part of your private Drive and AI context, and the original creator is fully compensated.
Seamless Developer Experience: By integrating x402 for payments and the CDP Wallet for fund management, we eliminate the traditional headaches of Web3 transactions—delivering a smooth, one-click developer experience for both creators and consumers.
Challenges we ran into
Complex Project Scope
Multiple moving parts: a Drive service for file/folder creation, uploads, and URL generation.
Two distinct link-sharing modes: monetized/public links and time-limited links.
Marketplace Integration
Ability to upload Drive items into a Marketplace for sale.
Full CRUD support for both Drive and Marketplace entities.
Post-purchase logic: copies items back into the buyer’s Drive, including proper handling of nested folders.
Transaction Tracking & Affiliate Program
Three-way payments (seller, affiliate, platform) with correct fund splits.
Classification of each transaction as direct or indirect to enable accurate reporting.
Complex relationship graph between users, affiliates, and purchases.
AI Studio & Contextual Chunking
AI Studio must ingest Drive files as “context” for chat and generation features.
Implemented chunking on upload to support large text and some PDF files.
Flagged files as “AI-ready” when chunking succeeds.
Features built on top of that context:
Find relevant Marketplace content with a single click.
Generate new content and save it back into Drive.
Integration & Coordination
Ensuring all modules (Drive, Marketplace, Transactions, Affiliate logic, AI Studio) interoperate smoothly.
Overcoming numerous edge cases and workflow “kinks” along the way.
Despite the complexity and ambition of the project, we successfully consolidated every component into a cohesive, working platform—and we’re incredibly proud of what we’ve built.
Tracks Applied (4)
Best Use of x402pay + CDPWallet
Best Use of CDP Wallet
Best Use of x402pay
Multiple Prizes: AWS Challenge: Best Use of Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Web Services
Technologies used