Infrastructure Review Evaluating Walrus-Programmable Storage for Scalable Web3 Applications
Storage on the web has not been very good at handling things. The parts of Web3 that do the work were okay. They had trouble with big files like datasets, for artificial intelligence, videos or collections of applications. These big files needed to be stored in one place or people had to come up with complicated solutions to make it work with Web3 storage.
The Walrus experiments are really about making sure the system works well. They break up the files into pieces and store them in many places so the whole thing is, like a strong base that does not fall apart. This makes the Walrus system very stable, able to handle problems and able to change when it needs to. The Walrus system uses WAL tokens to make sure people who help the system get something in return which helps the Walrus system keep running on its own. The Walrus experiments are important for the Walrus system to work properly.
When you look at how people're actually using this thing you can see that it is being adopted. People are using it for intelligence pipelines storing NFT archives and as the backend for apps. This is really testing the system. Showing that the design is good. There are people trying to do similar things so there is competition. People still have to think about how much things cost and make choices about what's most important but the main focus of this protocol is on what it can do not just, on telling a good story.
The lesson is subtle programmable storage for Web3 succeeds when infrastructure continues to operate predictably, day after day, forming the scaffolding on which applications can safely build. #Walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL
