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Today's (January 15, 2026) summary of the Walrus Protocol (WAL):

Market performance

Current price: $0.1551.

Daily change: Rose 0.52% in the last 24 hours.

Weekly trend: Maintains a strong growth momentum, with a 13.30% increase in the last 7 days, surpassing the global market average gain (5.20%).

Trading volume: Approximately $19.54 million in trading volume from the previous day, indicating continued strong investor interest.

For today, January 15, Dusk Blockchain leaves us the following summary:

1. Network and mainnet status

Mainnet consolidation: After its official launch at the beginning of this year, the network is in a critical operational phase, focusing on ensuring the stability of its decentralized exchange (DEX) platform and cross-chain bridges.

Technical milestones: This network operates with DuskEVM (Solidity-compatible) and uses the Hedger protocol to enable predefined, auditable private transactions, meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

The moment storage becomes evidence is the moment the design intent is revealed.
At that moment, comforting words disappear. Benchmarks cease to matter. Only behavior under failure remains.
Walrus gains relevance by designing for the moment when storage is no longer about access, but about trust, authority, and consequence.
Walrus alinea sus incentivos para que la evidencia no se vuelva poco confiable precisamente cuando llega la supervisión.

Founded in 2018, Dusk aims to solve this problem. Its path to achieving this goal is less a technological project and more the beginning of an entirely new financial philosophy.

From the beginning, Dusk was not designed to compete with blockchains aiming to create digital casinos or speculative betting platforms. It was designed to serve the real financial world: a world composed of banks, funds, regulators, and trillions of dollars in assets that cannot easily be transferred to a system that ignores the law. At the same time, its creators recognized a point often overlooked: true financial innovation is inseparable from privacy. If a company's trade secrets, balance sheets, and strategies are leaked to competitors, the company cannot operate. If every payment a person makes becomes a permanent public record, financial freedom cannot be achieved. The central vision of Dusk is to create a blockchain that simultaneously satisfies two practical needs: providing privacy where necessary and auditability where necessary.

There are no large corporations spying on you, no unexpected losses, and the authenticity of the data can be verified instantly.

It sounds like science fiction, but the Walrus Protocol is making it a reality, and as a proof of concept, by 2026, data will become the new oil, but we will have very little real control over it.

The Walrus Protocol is essentially a decentralized data marketplace, but its magic lies in its "chain-agnostic" design. This means you can integrate data regardless of the blockchain you use, or even without using one.

In regulated systems, these two concepts can never be equated. Transactions can be valid without being public. Processes can comply with regulations without being visible to everyone, which confirms that traditional finance has operated this way long before blockchain.

In most public blockchains, these two concepts are intertwined. Transactions are considered valid because everyone can see them. Transparency becomes a mechanism of trust. This assumption works in open, permissionless environments, but fails immediately when applied to regulated finance.