SLV Backup Now Supports Full E2E Encryption — Secure Your Data Without Sacrificing Speed, in a Single Command. Further Strengthening the Safe Operations Foundation for Web3 and the AI Agent Era

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Validators DAO are pleased to announce that SLV, their open-source Solana development toolkit, now supports full end-to-end (E2E) encryption for its backup functionality.

SLV Backup employs industry-standard AES-256 encryption, ensuring all backup data is encrypted on the client side before it ever reaches the storage server. The storage server has no access to plaintext data by design. From creating backups to restoring environments and scheduling automated jobs, everything is completed with a single SLV CLI command.

Combined with the recently launched ERPC Global Storage, users can immediately start creating encrypted Linux environment backups, saving them to the cloud, and restoring from them — with no additional infrastructure setup required.

SLV Backup Documentation: https://slv.dev/en/doc/backup/quickstart/

SLV Backup — E2E Encryption Overview

A Design Where the Storage Server Cannot Access Plaintext Data

With SLV Backup, all backup data is encrypted locally on the user's machine before upload. ERPC Global Storage servers store only encrypted data, and the server side cannot read the contents.

The encryption key exists solely in the user's local environment. Without this key, backups cannot be restored — delivering E2E encryption where data ownership remains with the user.

Fast Backups of Only What Changed — Incremental Approach

The first backup archives the entire system, but subsequent runs upload only the changes since the last snapshot. The backup engine detects and eliminates redundancy at the block level, significantly reducing both execution time and storage costs.

One Command Does It All — Backup, Restore, Automate

Creating backups, restoring environments, and configuring automated schedules — every operation is completed with a single SLV CLI command.

Daily, weekly, and monthly automated backups are supported, with snapshots older than the retention period (default: 7 days) automatically cleaned up. Once configured, backups are maintained continuously with no additional operational overhead.

In the event of an incident, environments can be restored from the latest backup with a single command. Point-in-time restoration from a specific snapshot is also supported.

Maintaining Speed While Securing Your Data

Performance and Data Durability — A Structural Trade-off

There are many ways to improve data durability on a server. Disk redundancy, mirroring, and replication are all effective approaches for reducing data loss risk, and they remain the right choice when the primary goal is preserving data that must never be lost.

However, compute resources are finite. Allocating resources to data redundancy means fewer resources available for application processing, which leads to increased latency.

For the high-frequency trading, DeFi, and other latency-sensitive workloads that ERPC's platform serves — where every millisecond counts — the overhead of redundancy directly impacts processing speed. This is why ERPC adopts performance-maximized configurations across all offerings.

A Safety Net That Doesn't Cost You Performance — Encrypted Backups Outside the Server

The way to maintain a high-performance configuration while securing your data: rather than dedicating internal server resources to redundancy, keep encrypted backups continuously stored outside the server.

Server-side resources stay 100% focused on performance, while data safety is covered by encrypted backups on ERPC Global Storage. With E2E encryption, even in the unlikely event of a storage-side incident, no third party without the encryption key can access the data contents.

Achieving both performance and data safety — the combination of SLV Backup and ERPC Global Storage is our answer to this challenge.

The Ability to Restore at Any Time Enables Bolder Moves

The fundamental value of a backup lies in the ability to restore.

When a crash or unexpected failure can happen at any time, the ability to recover immediately is what matters. Testing configuration changes, applying updates, validating new setups — the confidence that you can revert to a known-good state with a single command supports more aggressive performance tuning and operational experimentation.

This is not limited to infrastructure operations. For application development teams as well, maintaining the ability to restore an environment at any time is a baseline requirement for balancing development velocity with operational safety. In the Web3 space — closely tied to finance — security incidents and hacking attempts are a daily reality, and operating without backups is not an acceptable risk.

Providing a safely restorable environment as a standard option. This is the design purpose of SLV Backup and ERPC Global Storage.

Pricing

ERPC Global Storage pricing starts at €1/month for 5 GB of storage and 1,000 queries. Start small and scale by adding units as needed. Capacity can be upgraded or downgraded at any time, with Stripe-powered prorated billing applied automatically.

Thanks to incremental backups and deduplication, storage consumption from daily automated backups is largely limited to the volume of changes, keeping costs low.

ERPC Global Storage Pricing: https://erpc.global/en/price/

In the Age of AI Agents, a Safe Environment Foundation Becomes the Default

The adoption of AI agents and coding agents — including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Codex — is expanding, fundamentally changing how development is done. AI agents write code, run tests, and deploy — accelerating the pace of development to unprecedented levels.

The faster development moves, the more valuable the environment itself becomes. Environments built alongside AI agents operate as tightly coupled systems of code, dependencies, configuration, runtimes, and local data. Losing such an environment causes damage far beyond losing code alone.

As AI agents continue to evolve, application development will become more capable and more sophisticated. We are committed to building the open-source foundations that support these demands, and to continuing to improve the environments that make this possible. Building environments where performance improvement and safe operations coexist — this is the mission of ERPC and SLV.

SLV — A Solana Development Foundation for the AI Agent Era

SLV is an open-source Solana development toolkit designed to lower the knowledge barrier for operations while making safe, reliable operations more accessible.

From launching and operating Solana RPC nodes and validators to zero-downtime migration, automated E2E encrypted backups via ERPC Global Storage, and one-command environment migration via SLV Migrate Linux — SLV provides a comprehensive operational foundation for Solana development. Core features are MCP server-compatible, enabling execution by AI agents.

SLV Official Website: https://slv.dev/en SLV GitHub: https://github.com/validatorsDAO/slv

Five Consecutive Years of WBSO Recognition — R&D Results Directly Reflected in the Platform

ELSOUL LABO has been recognized under the Dutch government's WBSO R&D incentive program for five consecutive years since 2022. Ongoing research into ultra-low-latency Solana RPC infrastructure and automated validator placement and operational orchestration continues, with results directly reflected in platform performance improvements.

The E2E encryption capability in SLV Backup is a direct product of the operational automation and security design expertise accumulated through this research. R&D results are cumulative, and SLV and ERPC continue to evolve across speed, safety, and operational efficiency.

The Next-Generation Option — AS200261 Solana-Optimized Data Center

ELSOUL LABO has been assigned its own ASN (AS200261) by RIPE NCC and is progressing toward the launch of a top-tier, Solana-optimized data center. Built with the latest AMD EPYC 5th Gen, AMD Threadripper PRO 5th Gen (9975WX and others), and NVMe Gen 5 hardware throughout, combined with optimized network routing via our own ASN. Service is expected to begin from late this month into next month.

The initial allocation is sold out by reservation, but subsequent inventory will be offered in waitlist order.

Contact

For inquiries about SLV Backup and ERPC, please create a support ticket on the official Validators DAO Discord.

Validators DAO Official Discord: https://discord.gg/C7ZQSrCkYR

ERPC Official Website: https://erpc.global/en