Walrus narrows the “trust the archive” gap by making persistence auditable and programmatic: encode large blobs with a bandwidth-efficient, self-healing erasure code (Red Stuff), register availability and commitments on-chain, and use market incentives (prepaid WAL payments, staking/rewards, and penalties) to keep independent storage nodes honest over long time horizons. The result is a storage layer that is optimized for verifiable availability rather than purely lowest-cost replication.
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