Hippius Storage

Hippius is decentralized cloud storage on Bittensor SN75 with S3-compatible API.

Recommended path: S3 endpoint (s3.hippius.com) — the public IPFS node is deprecated.

Quick Reference

Setup

1. Get S3 credentials from console.hippius.com → Settings → API Keys
2. Set environment variables:

   export HIPPIUS_S3_ACCESS_KEY="hip_your_access_key"
   export HIPPIUS_S3_SECRET_KEY="your_secret_key"
   

3. Test: aws --endpoint-url https://s3.hippius.com --region decentralized s3 ls

Common Operations

Upload

aws --endpoint-url https://s3.hippius.com --region decentralized \
    s3 cp \x3Cfile> s3://\x3Cbucket>/\x3Ckey>

Download

aws --endpoint-url https://s3.hippius.com --region decentralized \
    s3 cp s3://\x3Cbucket>/\x3Ckey> \x3Clocal_path>

List buckets

aws --endpoint-url https://s3.hippius.com --region decentralized s3 ls

List objects

aws --endpoint-url https://s3.hippius.com --region decentralized s3 ls s3://\x3Cbucket>/ --recursive

Create bucket

aws --endpoint-url https://s3.hippius.com --region decentralized s3 mb s3://\x3Cbucket>

Sync directory

aws --endpoint-url https://s3.hippius.com --region decentralized \
    s3 sync ./local-dir/ s3://\x3Cbucket>/remote-dir/

Python (boto3)

import boto3
import os

s3 = boto3.client(
    's3',
    endpoint_url='https://s3.hippius.com',
    aws_access_key_id=os.environ['HIPPIUS_S3_ACCESS_KEY'],
    aws_secret_access_key=os.environ['HIPPIUS_S3_SECRET_KEY'],
    region_name='decentralized'
)

# Upload
s3.upload_file('local.txt', 'my-bucket', 'remote.txt')

# Download
s3.download_file('my-bucket', 'remote.txt', 'downloaded.txt')

# List
for obj in s3.list_objects_v2(Bucket='my-bucket').get('Contents', []):
    print(f"{obj['Key']} ({obj['Size']} bytes)")

Scripts

• scripts/query_storage.py — Query S3 buckets/objects and RPC account info

Usage:

# List S3 buckets
python scripts/query_storage.py --s3-buckets

# List objects in bucket
python scripts/query_storage.py --s3-objects my-bucket

# Query blockchain credits (requires account address)
python scripts/query_storage.py --account 5Grwva... --credits

References

• references/storage_guide.md — S3 vs IPFS comparison, code examples (Python, JS)
• references/cli_commands.md — hippius CLI reference (requires self-hosted IPFS node)

Troubleshooting

"Public store.hippius.network has been deprecated" Use S3 instead. The hippius CLI's IPFS commands require a self-hosted IPFS node.

S3 auth errors

• Access key must start with hip_
• Region must be decentralized (not us-east-1)
• Endpoint must be https://s3.hippius.com

External Links

• Hippius Docs
• Hippius Console
• Hippius Stats
• CLI GitHub