Walrus 4.5x Overhead Beats Traditional 25x By Huge Margin
Walrus Red Stuff encoding uses 4.5x overhead while traditional replication needs 25x for equivalent durability.
That 5.5x efficiency difference is why Walrus operators survive at $0.0944 when competitors would collapse.
An operator serving 10TB of user data deploys 45TB with Walrus versus 250TB with traditional methods.
Hardware costs, power consumption, cooling—everything scales with physical capacity.
WAL at $0.09 compresses margins to break-even. But break-even with Walrus efficiency beats massive losses with 25x waste.
Technical decisions made years ago determine who survives token crashes today. Walrus chose efficiency. That's infrastructure still running.
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