#walrus $WAL The Tech: "RedStuff" and Other Condiments

Walrus prides itself on "RedStuff," its proprietary erasure-coding scheme. It sounds like a brand of budget ketchup, but in reality, it’s a way to shard your data into "slivers" so that even if two-thirds of the network catches fire, you can still retrieve that 8K video of a Bored Ape.

The protocol claims a 4-5x replication factor, mocking Arweave’s "museum-style" permanent storage and Filecoin’s "library-archive" speed. But here’s the kicker: while they brag about being "cost-efficient," the unsubsidized storage costs are projected to balloon faster than a walrus on a diet of pure lard. In the 2026 landscape, paying $250/TB per month (unsubsidized) isn't "disrupting AWS"—it's a luxury tax for the privilege of saying your data lives on a blockchain.@Walrus 🦭/acc