How Walrus Compares better with Byzantine and Real-World Faults than Old Models
In decentralized storage, the hacks do not occur infrequently, but rather the slugging churn of failures, malice and malicious actors. Walrus does not only tolerate simple node failure, but it expects Byzantine failure in which nodes can be lying, collaborative or serving incoherent chunks. It encodes Red Stuff together with cryptographic commitments to slivers, and incentivised Proofs of Availability (PoA) which check storage in a continuous manner, not just one time.
