Walrus staking reads like infrastructure, not a lottery ticket—and that’s what you want when the product is “your data will still be here later.” Data from Walrus’ own staking guide: the network is supported by 100+ independent storage node operators, and epochs last two weeks. Committee selection happens in the middle of the prior epoch because moving shards and provisioning capacity is costly. Practical implication: if you want your stake to be active in epoch e (and earn), you must stake before the midpoint of epoch e−1; stake after that only becomes active in epoch e+1. Unstaking mirrors the delay, so liquidity timing matters as much as APR.

Walrus is intentionally discouraging “stake hopping” because churn forces real data movement. Long-term reliability is being priced into the protocol rules—exactly the kind of boring constraint that makes a storage network trustworthy. @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #Walrus