At first, @Walrus 🦭/acc just sounded like another name I’d forget a week later. Crypto is full of those. But I kept seeing it pop up around Sui, and that made me pause. Sui projects don’t usually chase hype. They tend to build quietly and let things sit for a while.
What I noticed with Walrus is that it’s not trying to be “the next DeFi thing” or “the next storage thing.” It’s awkwardly sitting in both worlds. At first, I wasn’t sure that was a strength or a liability. DeFi people usually don’t care where data lives, and storage people don’t care about tokens beyond paying fees.
After watching this for a bit, it started to make more sense. walrus feels like infrastructure pretending not to be flashy. Private transactions, blob storage, breaking files apart and spreading them across a network — none of that is exciting on crypto Twitter, but it’s the kind of stuff apps quietly depend on. Especially if you actually care about privacy instead of just saying you do.
One thing that still bothers me is adoption. Storage protocols live or die by usage, not narratives. DeFi alone won’t carry it. It needs real apps, real data, real reasons to store things there instead of somewhere easier.
Still, #walrus doesn’t feel rushed. And in this market, that alone makes me keep an eye on it.
— Crypto Capital BNB