Because it’s prohibited by legal requirements. We do not participate in support of liquidity and cannot do so.
We also do not want to build and maintain an own blockchain, it’s not our goal. Our goal is distributed S3-compatible end-to-end encrypted storage with the distributed computing and the world fastest filesystem based on an object storage (the list would likely continue, stay tuned).
STORJ token is exist on L2 zkSync Era too, which as close to the microtransactions dream as possible, the transaction fee is negligible in comparison with TX fee on L1 Ethereum, we also may pay the transactional fee in STORJ (thanks to txSync).
Chia is not comparable to Storj, Storj have a real value - the customers may store and retrieve their data, use GPU and cunoFS. And Chia is a pointless mill that turns disks and electricity into speculative tokens, it doesn’t have any real value for the customers.