Velic

Getting started

Create a workspace, upload your first master, and see your first on-chain proof.

This walkthrough takes you from a fresh account to a stored master with a verifiable, on-chain proof of preservation.

Create your workspace

Open Velic and choose Create a workspace. You provide:

  • your organisation name (the workspace everything lives under),
  • your name,
  • your email, and
  • a password (at least 8 characters).

Creating the workspace makes you its owner. If a colleague has already created a workspace, ask them to invite you instead. You'll receive a link to set a password and join (see Team & settings).

Upload your first master

Go to Upload and select a video master file, or drag it onto the dropzone.

Before any piece leaves your machine, Velic encrypts the file in your browser with AES-256. It then uploads the ciphertext resumably, splits it into content-addressed pieces, stores those pieces on the Filecoin Onchain Cloud as two independent copies, and registers the dataset on-chain. You'll see the upload move through these stages:

Encrypting · AES-256 → Chunking into pieces → Storing · 2 independent copies → Registering dataset on-chain → Awaiting first proof.

Large uploads are resumable, and you can pause and resume while the file is being encrypted in the browser.

Wait for the first proof

Once the master is stored and its dataset is registered, the network begins producing Proof of Data Possession (PDP) for it. The first proof arrives on the next proving cycle: roughly every 30 minutes on the Calibration network this version runs on, and daily on Filecoin mainnet.

What “awaiting first proof” means

A freshly stored master shows Proof pending until its first on-chain proof lands. This is expected, not an error: the master is already stored and registered; it is simply waiting for the first proving cycle.

See your proof of preservation

Open the master from the Asset library and select the Proof of preservation tab. You'll see stat cards for Stored since, Independent copies, Last verified, and Retention, plus a heatmap of the recent daily proofs. Once the first proof lands, the master's status becomes Verified.

Download a certificate, or verify it yourself

From a master you can download a preservation certificate (a PDF listing the PieceCID, the recent on-chain proofs, and the exact contract addresses and explorer links), and you can expand Verify on-chain to see the PieceCID, dataset ID, latest proof hash, and proof epoch.

Anyone, including an auditor who does not trust Velic, can re-check those proofs against the public Filecoin chain. See Verify it yourself.

Introduction

What Velic is, the guarantee it makes, and who it is for.

Masters

What a “master” is in Velic, and how one is represented.

On this page

Create your workspaceUpload your first masterWait for the first proofSee your proof of preservationDownload a certificate, or verify it yourself