Walrus Protocol is built for the way operators actually leave. Not with a crash though. With neglect.
A disk fills a little faster than planned. A process restarts late. Traffic reroutes and never quite comes back. Nothing fails loudly enough to trigger an alarm... but performance thins all the same. @Walrus 🦭/acc treats that slow storage decay as normal and designs routing and recovery to absorb it early... before this turns into an incident.
Overall that changes the trust model. Reliability is not tied to who's still paying attention on a given week. It emerges from redundancy and thresholds doing their job quietly.
You do not trust operators to behave perfectly, to be honest though.
You trust the math to carry the load.
