📌 What Is Walrus (WAL)?

Walrus is a decentralized storage and data availability protocol built on the Sui blockchain that enables scalable, secure, and programmable storage of large files — often called blobs (like videos, images, AI datasets, and other unstructured data). �

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🔹 Instead of relying on centralized servers like AWS or Google Cloud, Walrus distributes encoded pieces of your data across a network of independent storage nodes. �

🔹 It uses advanced erasure-coding (the “Red Stuff” algorithm) so a file can be reconstructed even if many nodes go offline. This improves reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness compared to many traditional blockchain storage approaches. �

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🧠 How It Works (High Level)

Data Upload: When you upload a file, it’s split into shards and distributed across storage nodes. �

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Proofs & Availability: The network regularly verifies that nodes truly hold and can serve the data, using cryptographic proofs. �

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Sui Integration: Metadata and control objects are recorded on the Sui blockchain, enabling on-chain programmability and composability with other apps. �

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💰 What the WAL Token Does

The native token WAL serves multiple core roles in the Walrus ecosystem: �

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Payment for Storage — Users pay WAL to store data on the network.

Staking & Security — Nodes must stake WAL to participate and earn rewards; staked tokens help secure availability and reliability.

Governance — WAL holders can vote on key protocol parameters and upgrades (governance mechanisms may vary over time). �

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The total supply is capped (typically cited at 5 billion WAL), and some ecosystem incentives (like early subsidies) help bootstrap usage. �#walrus $WAL