I’m thinking about Walrus as infrastructure rather than a token story. Most blockchains aren’t built to handle large files, so projects rely on external storage and trust assumptions. Walrus tries to change that.
They’re building a decentralized storage network that works alongside Sui. The blockchain doesn’t hold the files themselves. Instead, it tracks who stored them, for how long, and whether the data is still supposed to be available. The files are broken into pieces, encoded with redundancy, and spread across many storage providers. Even if some providers go offline, the data can still be recovered.
WAL is used to pay for storage and to stake nodes that provide capacity. I’m not seeing this as a consumer app. They’re aiming at developers who need reliable, censorship-resistant storage without trusting a single cloud provider. It’s a quiet but important layer for long-term decentralized applications.
