Definitely could be articulated better on the site. A lot of technical details that are beyond most of us.

However what I grasped from it is that it wishes to overcome some limitations, speeding up query & download times on Nostr, which we see can be an issue with some clients.

Not only that it offers a credible alternative to IPFS and avoids the unnecessary full & duplicate download of files for numerous clients and relays.

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“This will unlock a new tier of speed for a variety of decentralized apps that require file directories.”

“Without cryptographically verifiable chunking, users would need to download the entire file to verify it — rather than verifying each chunk immediately after the download. Downloading a very large file before verifying it wastes a lot of time and bandwidth if the file turns out to be incorrect.”