Yes, privacy and security are important considerations when using @Walrus 🦭/acc Walrus, and understanding this upfront is essential.
By design, all blobs stored on Walrus are public and discoverable. This means anyone can access the data if they know how to find it. Walrus prioritizes data availability, decentralization, and reliability—not privacy by default. As a result, it is best suited for public data such as application assets, AI datasets, onchain state data, NFTs, and rollup-related information.
Because of this openness, sensitive or private data should never be stored in plain form on Walrus. If confidentiality is required, additional security measures—such as encrypting data before storage—must be applied by the user or application layer. Walrus itself does not manage encryption or access control.
From a security perspective, Walrus is strong at protecting data from loss or downtime through erasure coding and wide distribution. However, privacy protection is the responsibility of the user.
In simple terms: Walrus keeps your data available and resilient, but not private. Treat it as a public data layer, and add your own security if secrecy matters.#walrus $WAL
