The Inventor Behind HORNO: Meet Vincenzo Picciuolo
By HORNO STAFF — 2026-04-16
Every network has an origin.
For HORNO, it begins with a question that Vincenzo Picciuolo has been asking for years: why do the people who own the world's devices see none of the value those devices create for the infrastructure of the internet?
Picciuolo is the Founder and CEO of HORNO Blockchain, and the named inventor of its core technology stack — a suite of nine proprietary systems that collectively form the architecture of a decentralised storage network built not on data centres, but on the devices people already own.
His answer to that question is the HORNO File System, known as HFS™ — an encrypted container system that allows any device to contribute verified storage to the global network without ever exposing the user's personal files.
Combined with PoST™ (Proof of Storage + Trust), a continuous verification protocol, and Dual-Gas™ Architecture, which separates infrastructure costs from application execution, the stack forms a complete, self-sustaining blockchain ecosystem.
The technology was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on March 17, 2026, under application number 64/008,403.
The title of the invention: Storage-Bound Blockchain with User-Operated Storage Nodes, Encrypted Proof File System, Proof-of-Storage and Proof-of-Storage-Time, and Dual Gas Execution Tokens…