Today I need to apologize to my family.🙇‍♀️
I used to always say @Walrus 🦭/acc that it was the 'favorite child of Sui' and 'a16z's darling'—all empty words.
Even three months ago, I was still in an **'airdrop hunter'** mindset: I'd grab the airdrop $WAL and immediately sell it, thinking the storage sector was already oversaturated and there was no chance left?

Until last month, I was 'educated' by a centralized cloud storage service.
My studio had stored 700GB of design assets and original video footage.
The result? Risk control lockout, download speed throttling, and extremely high membership fees. Clients were urging me for drafts, but I was just waiting for the progress bar to spin.
At that moment, I remembered the wallet full of dormant $WAL .

With a 'desperate hope' mindset, I tried migrating 100GB.
The result? I was truly impressed.

1. Genuine 'Cost Reduction and Efficiency Enhancement'

  • Speed: not exaggerated. Large files open and play instantly, without that 'constipated' feeling.

  • Cost: After calculation, the annual cost is only 1/3 of centralized solutions.

  • Conclusion: This is not hype—it's a must-have alternative.

2. The 'Fruit Basket' Theory (Red Stuff)

I used to not understand what made Red Stuff so special.
Until I saw a brilliant analogy from a master (in tribute to Daft Punk):

  • Traditional storage: You send a basket of fruit (data), but to prevent loss, you send a full basket to 10 people. Wasteful!

  • Walrus: cuts the fruit into pieces and distributes them among several people. If a few pieces are lost? No problem—the rest can still be reassembled into the whole fruit.Saves space, saves bandwidth, and is safer!
    This is calledTwo-dimensional erasure coding, the mathematical weapon that#walrus defeats Filecoin.

3. The 'Hidden Ace' of RWA

Don't just focus on storing images.#WalrusProtocol The real ambition lies in RWA (Real-World Assets on-chain).
What does traditional finance fear? Compliance and audits.
Walrus enables **'Proof-of-Compliance'**—every asset on-chain automatically generates an audit report.
There are already $800 million in RWA assets on-chain (real estate, bonds). That's real money.

Azure's decision:

I staked all the airdrop I received, and even added more positions.
It's not about chasing short-term gains, but rather that I finally understood its logic:
Sui is responsible for speed (computation), while Walrus is responsible for memory (storage).
They are a pair of ecological twin stars that were meant to be together.

If you're still hesitant, just give it a try. Even storing 1GB would be worth it.
In this industry full of PowerPoint slides, 'usability' is the only real hard truth.