Walrus WAL sits at the heart of the Walrus Protocol, not as a hype token but as a working piece of the system. WAL is used to pay for decentralized storage, secure the network through staking, and take part in community governance. That balance matters. You are not just consuming resources, you are helping protect and shape the network at the same time. In return, contributors are rewarded for strengthening the ecosystem. WAL feels like a clean compromise between real utility and real responsibility, where users are not just customers but stakeholders. That is how Walrus Protocol grows into infrastructure people actually own.