The Real Story Behind Walrus $WAL and Censorship Resistant Storage.
The idea of storage that cannot be erased is not new. Early academic work like the Eternity Service aimed to stop documents from being deleted or hidden. Then came peer to peer networks such as Napster, Gnutella, Freenet, and Free Haven which tried to store and share files without a central server. But these systems were slow and unreliable because they used unstructured networks, flooding search, and heavy copying of data.
Walrus learns from those early systems and takes it further. Instead of only hoping data stays available, Walrus uses cryptographic proofs, structured coordination, and smart encoding. That means stronger availability and better scalability without wasting resources like the old peer to peer designs did.