Australian Data Bank
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We are a mutually owned bank, for data

We enable Australian individuals and families to secure their digital assets in fully encrypted Vaults, protected perpetually across lifetimes and generations.

Secure your digital assets across generations

Your Vault secures your digital assets in fully encrypted, deep archival storage, at ultra-low-cost. No one can access or close your Vault without your permission.

  • Free up your everyday storage

    Save space and money on your everyday storage by archiving important digital assets into your Vault. Connect your Vault to Google, Apple or other services, and set it to archive certain assets automatically.

  • Built for centuries, not decades

    The ADB is a perpetual institution owned by Vault owners, meaning we cannot be closed without a supermajority of Vault owners agreeing. Your Vault is legal property that can be transferred across generations.

  • Your forever space for everything important

    Photos, videos, documents, records, receipts… If you need to keep it for years, decades or longer, it belongs in your Vault. Zero-knowledge encryption means that only you hold the keys.

  • AI, on your terms

    Connect your Vault to any AI, so it can work with the assets you choose. From lifetime AI Assistants, to virtual selves and media for future generations. You decide what your AI can work with, and what it can't.

Try the configurator

Choose your Vault capacity and a retrieval time. See the ultra low cost of deep archival storage.

Annual cost

A$1.72 a year

Vault owners pay the actual cost of deep archival storage, with no markup. An owners corporation fee of $25 per annum can be shared by up to five Vault owners (e.g. $5 per owner across an immediate or wider family).

Create your Vault

Set up in minutes. Secured for generations.

  1. Configure your Vault

    Choose your preferred storage capacity and retrieval time. You can change this anytime.

  2. Create your Vault

    In less than two minutes, your encrypted Vault portal will guide you through its main storage, security and access features, and ways to manage your keys.

  3. Manage your Vault from anywhere

    Nominate administrators, accessors and successors. Send anything to your Vault from any app. Configure automated tasks with your favourite AIs and digital services.

Create your Vault

Vaults are free to try for three months, then owners meet the ultra-low cost of deep archival storage and management.

Go deeper

  • A bank vault door's locking wheel

    Engineering

    Inside the zero-knowledge Vault.

    How zero-knowledge encryption works, and why no one can access your Vault without you giving them a key, including the ADB.

    Read the engineering notes
  • Miniature figures joined in a glowing network

    Governance

    Built for centuries, not decades.

    The ADB is a perpetual institution owned by Vault owners. We cannot be closed without a supermajority of Vault owners agreeing.

    Read our constitution
  • A person smiling on a rooftop as the city lights come on

    Owners

    Create with us.

    Get involved with our board elections, pilot projects and activities. Help to build and test new services for perpetual Vaults.

    Get involved
  • A slide projector beaming light beside a film camera

    Perspective

    The carousel, continued.

    Many of us know the famous carousel scene in Mad Men, depicting the emotion of family memories. Our Vaults can update this feeling with media-rich connections across generations.

    Read the perspective