#walrus $WAL Walrus differentiates itself through:
Red Stuff encoding — an efficient erasure coding scheme that achieves high resilience with low redundancy (significantly cheaper than Filecoin or Arweave in many cases)
Programmable storage — data becomes a first-class Sui object, allowing smart contract interactions, ownership transfers, and on-chain logic
Horizontal scaling — supports thousands of decentralized nodes without bottlenecks
Integration with Sui — leverages Sui's high throughput, low fees, and parallel execution for fast blob uploads/downloads
Backed by Mysten Labs (Sui creators) and the @Walrus 🦭/acc Walrus Foundation (with major funding from a16z crypto, Standard Crypto, Franklin Templeton, etc.), it positions Walrus as infrastructure for the AI era, enabling verifiable, monetizable data markets.
