@Walrus

The Web3 storage sector welcomes a strong player! Developed by Mysten Labs and supported by the Sui ecosystem, the Walrus protocol has secured $140 million in funding (led by Standard Crypto, with participation from a16z and others) and is set to launch on the mainnet on March 27, becoming one of the most anticipated decentralized storage projects of 2026.

Its core advantage lies in the Red Stuff two-dimensional erasure coding technology—requiring only a 4.5x replication factor, it can fully recover even with a 66% data loss, making it more cost-effective than Filecoin and Arweave, while also supporting asynchronous network storage verification, fundamentally addressing the node churn issue. It has already been implemented in applications like Flatlander, and Web3 media outlets like Decrypt plan to migrate content, efficiently adapting to scenarios such as AI datasets, NFT media, and decentralized websites.

The token $WAL is more community-oriented: over 60% is allocated for airdrops (10%) and community reserves (43%), with the first 4% of the airdrop already distributed to 120,000 Sui addresses before the mainnet launch, and further ecosystem subsidies and hackathon incentives are planned. Friends looking to enter the storage sector can follow @walrusprotocol for the latest updates; the potential of this "storage new star" is worth looking forward to! #walrus $WAL