Walrus Turns “Censorship Resistance” into Practical Data Infrastructure
Censorship resistance is easy to talk about, but much harder to implement. Value transfers can be decentralized, yet data itself can still be blocked or disappear if it lives in a single hosting environment. Walrus is built to address that gap by distributing storage across a decentralized network rather than relying on one provider.
WAL is the native token of the Walrus protocol, which combines private blockchain interactions with decentralized, privacy-aware data storage. Operating on Sui, Walrus uses blob storage to handle large files efficiently. Those files are then encoded and split across many storage nodes using erasure coding, allowing the network to recover the original data even when some nodes fail or go offline. That’s what real resilience looks like in practice.
This design makes Walrus relevant for applications, organizations, and individuals who don’t want their data governed by the policies or failures of a single cloud provider. WAL underpins the system through staking, governance, and incentives, helping ensure the storage network remains secure, decentralized, and sustainable over time.
