Terror1986/sovereign-vault

Sovereign-vault is a highly specialized project targeting the nascent field of DNA data storage. The technical stack is sophisticated, combining HEDGES (specifically designed to handle insertion/deletion errors in DNA) with traditional Reed-Solomon and RaptorQ fountain codes. However, with 0 stars, 0 forks, and being only a day old, it currently lacks any market presence or community validation. While the combination of these three ECC layers is technically sound for the problem domain, the project is essentially a code-drop without an ecosystem. Frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) have zero interest in the physical layer of DNA storage at this time, though Microsoft Research maintains a dominant position in this specific niche. The primary risk is not platform domination, but the lack of an underlying market; DNA storage remains prohibitively expensive for the 'sovereign' or 'zero-watt' use cases the project envisions. Defensibility is low because the algorithms are well-documented in academic literature (e.g., Press et al. on HEDGES), making this a reference implementation rather than a proprietary moat.