Do you remember the internet before broadband.
I do. It was slow. It was clunky. It was mostly just text and simple images. You could not stream video. You could not have complex social networks. You definitely could not have the metaverse.
That is exactly where we are in crypto right now.
We pat ourselves on the back for DeFi and simple token swaps but let us be honest. These are low bandwidth applications. We are trading text files back and forth. We are not building rich immersive experiences because the infrastructure simply cannot handle it.
This is the fourth and perhaps the most visionary reason I am bullish on Walrus WAL. It is not just a storage locker. It is the bandwidth upgrade that Web3 has been suffocating for.
The Bottleneck of Innovation
I talk to developers all the time and they all say the same thing. "I have this amazing idea for a decentralized Instagram or a blockchain based Netflix but I cannot build it."
Why not
Because putting a 4K video on Ethereum is impossible. Putting it on IPFS is slow and unreliable. So they compromise. They build simple financial apps because numbers are easy to store.
Walrus removes this ceiling.
By making large unstructured data (like high definition video audio and massive game assets) cheap and instantly retrievable Walrus is doing what broadband did for the internet in the early 2000s.
Unlocking the Impossible Apps
Think about what happened when internet speeds got fast. We did not just get faster emails. We got entirely new industries. We got YouTube. We got Spotify. We got Twitch.
Walrus is about to trigger that same Cambrian explosion for the decentralized web.
We are about to see a wave of apps that were previously impossible.
Imagine a decentralized music platform where the audio files are streamed directly from the blockchain with zero lag.
Imagine a social network where every photo and video is hosted on nodes run by the community not a corporation in Silicon Valley.
These are not pipe dreams anymore. The tech is finally here.
The Sui Advantage (Object Composability)
This is where the magic happens. Because Walrus is integrated with Sui it treats media like "objects."
In the old web a video file was just a dumb file. In this new world that video file can be a dynamic programmable asset. It can have rules attached to it. It can change based on who is watching it.
We are moving from a static web to a living web.
The Verdict
I am not investing in Walrus because of what crypto is today. I am investing because of what crypto will become tomorrow.
We are done with the text based era. We are done with the dial up phase. The fiber optic cables are being laid down right now and Walrus is the company digging the trenches.
If you want to know what the next ten years of the internet looks like stop looking at the token price and start looking at the bandwidth.
