I’m paying close attention to Walrus because they’re tackling one of the most uncomfortable truths in crypto, which is that ownership means very little if the data behind it can disappear. Walrus is designed as a decentralized storage network that works alongside a blockchain instead of trying to overload it. Large files are never stored directly onchain. Instead, they’re encoded into fragments using erasure coding and distributed across a network of storage nodes that commit to holding their assigned pieces for a paid period of time. The blockchain is used to record those commitments and prove that the network has accepted responsibility, which turns storage into a promise instead of a hope. When users retrieve data, they collect enough fragments to reconstruct the original file and verify it against the onchain record, so integrity is checked, not assumed. WAL ties everything together by handling payments, staking, and governance, aligning long term rewards with long term availability. The long term vision is ambitious but grounded: become reliable infrastructure for apps, AI systems, and digital archives, so builders stop worrying about whether their data will still exist years from now, and they’re free to focus on creating instead of constantly defending against loss.

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