Decentralized storage is the stated preference.

The revealed preference is storage built for crypto.

They are significantly different.

Everyone is from somewhere. Cofounder and CEO of Pinata. https://www.pinata.cloud/

What are the key features of storage built for crypto in your view?

Bitcoin Believer, Ethereum Explorer,  NFT collectooor and Digital Marketer. zk/acc

1. Agreed. 

2. Not so sure. When people talk about decentralising assets like NFTs for example (think CloneX as recent example) they are looking for open access to files on long term storage not based on a single provider. No wallet signature required on the host and smart contract signatures aren’t inherently linked to offchain decentralised storage like IPFS. 

3. The centralisation scale really does matter on multiple levels. If the deployer changes an asset after the fact, a user can be rugged, if the host takes you down e.g. Cloudflare (technically CDN) then the dev is rugged. If it’s genuinely onchain, static and decentralised then nobody gets rugged unless the chain state is lost.

1. Files need to be verifiable before, during, and after they are attached onchain. If files can't be verified throughout their lifespan, then it renders the guarantees of the blockchain useless.

2. File permissioning needs to be managed in a state, token, and wallet-first way e.g. access files based on a wallet signature or token holding.

3. Files need to meet the requirements of #1 and #2 regardless of how centralized or decentralized the infrastructure the files are stored on are.