Why Walrus Treats Data Availability as Infrastructure, Not a Feature

Most blockchain systems talk about data availability as a box to check. Walrus treats it as infrastructure that applications must be able to rely on over long periods of time. The protocol is designed so developers do not have to constantly reason about whether data will still exist tomorrow. By using blob storage combined with erasure coding, Walrus assumes failures will happen and plans for them instead of pretending they will not. This mindset matters because real applications cannot pause when storage nodes churn. Data availability only becomes meaningful when it is predictable. Walrus pushes toward that baseline by aligning incentives around long-term availability rather than short-term participation. That shift is subtle, but it changes how serious builders think about decentralized storage.

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