The way I see it, Walrus sitting on top of Sui feels pretty natural. $SUI takes care of the fast stuff, the transactions and the day to day activity, and Walrus just focuses on the storage part. I like that separation because it means neither layer is trying to do everything. WAL ends up being the token that keeps the storage layer running since people use it for staking and voting, so it actually has a purpose.
What I really like is how Walrus handles big files. It doesn’t panic when the data gets huge. It breaks everything into pieces, spreads it around, and you can still put it back together even if a chunk of the network goes missing. That is the kind of thing I want from a storage system, not just someone promising “decentralization” without any real backup plan.
There is also a privacy angle here that I think people overlook. Not every app wants its data sitting out in the open. Some things need to stay private, and Walrus gives you that option without killing performance. When you put it all together, the whole setup feels pretty clean to me. Sui handles the execution, Walrus handles the storage, and WAL keeps the incentives in place.
It just works as a stack instead of trying to compete with everything at once.
