The Hidden Storage Killer: Correlation Strikes Walrus! 🚨
This isn't about simple node failure; it's about shared fate sneaking into your infrastructure. Walrus promises 4.5x replication security, but what happens when your "independent" shards share the same upstream provider or region? 🤯
Erasure coding handles loss, but it can't invent independence that wasn't there. When correlation hits, repair traffic competes directly with live reads in the same congested pipe. That Proof-of-Availability certificate on-chain? It proves state, not domain diversity.
Operators are incentivized by $WAL rewards to create homogeneous, predictable fleets—which ironically breeds the exact coupling that kills availability during stress. Insurance layers become mandatory, not optional. The risk shifts from data loss to unreliable fetch times.
We need true failure domain spread, not just on-paper redundancy. If independence degrades, even safe data becomes unusable data.
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