@Walrus 🦭/acc Protocol is built for how operators actually fail — slowly, quietly, and over time.
Not with dramatic crashes.
With neglect.
A disk fills faster than expected.
A process restarts late.
Traffic reroutes and never fully returns.
Nothing breaks loudly enough to raise an alarm — but performance degrades all the same.
Walrus treats this kind of slow storage decay as normal behavior, not an edge case. Routing, redundancy, and recovery are designed to absorb these issues early, long before they turn into incidents.
That fundamentally changes the trust model.
Reliability in Walrus isn’t tied to whether an operator is alert, honest, or even paying attention this week. It emerges from math, thresholds, and redundancy doing their job quietly.
You don’t trust operators to be perfect.
You don’t even trust them to behave well.
You trust Walrus and the protocol to carry the load.