This one's for anyone who's ever built something online, only to watch the platform change or vanish.
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What Are We Actually Building On?
Here's a question I keep coming back to: in Web3, are we building skyscrapers, or are we just putting up really nice tents?
We talk about ownership, DeFi, and digital nations. But our blueprints have a massive, unspoken flaw. The stunning art for your NFT? Probably on a server that could go offline. The game world you spent months in? Its data lives at the mercy of a startup's funding round. We've designed a glorious new city, but we poured the foundation on rented sand.
This isn't just a technical hiccup. It's a philosophical problem. You can't claim to own the future if you're renting the ground it's built on.
That's why my focus has shifted to infrastructure, and specifically to @Walrus 🦭/acc . I don't see it as a "storage project." I see it as the first company selling permanent, digital land. Its entire purpose is to be the unshakable ground—the bedrock—for the Sui ecosystem.
The tech is how it enforces that promise. Using erasure coding, it makes data so durable that losing it would require a coordinated attack on a global network. But the real genius is the deed. When you store something on Walrus, it doesn't get a receipt. It gets a Sui object title. That data is now a native, programmable asset on-chain. A composer's symphony can be an asset that pays royalties. A architect's 3D model for a virtual gallery can be traded, not just viewed.
The $WAL token is your stake in this new ground. You use it to buy plots, to vote on neighborhood rules (governance), and to help keep the land secure (staking). Its value doesn't come from a meme; it comes from the undeniable, growing need for a place on the internet that is actually, permanently yours.
We can keep building beautiful tents. Or, we can start pouring a foundation that lasts centuries. Walrus is selling the land. The rest is up to us.
