@Walrus 🦭/acc reorients decentralization around long-term data persistence rather than raw computation. By relying on blob storage, applications can retain large datasets without inflating on-chain state, a limitation that constrains many layer-1 ecosystems. Within Walrus Protocol, WAL incentives are responsible for balancing storage operators’ operating costs against the need for stable, predictable pricing on the user side.
Any breakdown in that balance introduces a distinct form of volatility risk. If storage providers exit due to misaligned incentives, network reliability can deteriorate more abruptly than in traditional validator churn scenarios, where compute resources are easier to reallocate than durable data storage.
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