Walrus: Storage Is the Real Bottleneck of Web3 Adoption
Walrus Protocol targets a limitation most blockchains do not address: applications cannot scale if their data layer is fragile.
Blockchains are optimized for execution, not memory. As soon as apps grow, they start depending on centralized databases to store state, media, and history. This creates a silent dependency that undermines decentralization. When storage fails, the app fails, even if the chain is running perfectly.
Walrus approaches storage as a coordination problem. Data is encoded, split into fragments, and distributed across independent nodes. No single provider controls access. No single outage can remove application state.
This matters for real adoption. Users expect apps to stay online. Developers need infrastructure that survives stress, not just ideal conditions.
As Web3 moves from experiments to real systems, storage reliability will matter more than transaction speed alone.
Walrus is building for that stage, where uptime is not optional.
