Walrus and the Cost of Data Persistence
One part of Web3 that’s often ignored is data persistence.
Storing data is easy. Keeping it available, verifiable, and economically sustainable over time is not.
Walrus approaches this as an economic problem, not just a technical one.
Storage isn’t infinite, so incentives matter. Pricing, staking, and node rewards are designed to reflect real resource usage instead of abstract promises.
This is important because most decentralized systems break down when usage grows.
Either costs explode, or reliability quietly degrades.
Walrus is built around the idea that long-term data should be treated like infrastructure, not content.
When storage economics are honest, networks can grow without stress.
