Why should AI models stay locked behind closed APIs? The Walrus protocol is reshaping this by supporting decentralized storage for open AI datasets and model weights. Every interaction on the network contributes to a system where data and models are accessible, auditable, and persistent.
Have you considered how centralized models limit innovation? With Walrus, developers can store and share large model weights and datasets across a distributed network, ensuring reliability and censorship resistance. The ecosystem rewards nodes that maintain uptime and verifiability, encouraging active participation.
This approach doesn’t just protect AI assets it empowers builders. Open datasets can be reused, audited, and extended without centralized restrictions. The protocol’s infrastructure aligns incentives for both developers and users, fostering a sustainable environment for growth.
For the AI community, decentralized storage transforms how knowledge is preserved and scaled. WAL isn’t a token chasing hype it is infrastructure supporting the open future of AI. By anchoring models and datasets securely, Walrus makes transparency and access the foundation of innovation.
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BlockBeats News, January 7th, according to the official announcement, OKX will officially launch the ZKPUSDT perpetual contract on January 7, 2026, at 21:30 (UTC+8) on the web, app, and API.
$ETH Short Signal :
Entry: $3,220
Stop Loss (SL): $3,350
Take Profit (TP): $2,950
As always define your risk ahead of time, wait for confirmed rejection at resistance, and avoid entering without clear confirmation — especially with major smart-contract tokens like ETH that can swing with broader market trends.
Institutional accumulation continues
BlackRock withdrew 3,948 BTC ($367.9M) and 1,737 ETH ($5.65M) from Coinbase in the last 8 hours.
In the past 48 hours, totals reach 7,146 BTC ($668.4M) and 6,851 ETH ($21.9M).
Large exchange outflows usually signal long-term custody, not selling a strong confidence signal from institutions.
🚨XRP ETFs BREAK RECORDS WITH $46.1 MILLION IN ONE DAY AND $1.65 BILLION AUM
📈XRP spot ETFs in the United States just hit a huge milestone, *recording *46.1 million dollars in net inflows in a single day and pushing total assets under management to about *1.65 billion dollars, according to the latest market data.
💡This surge reflects strong and sustained demand from investors, with a consistent run of positive days showing growing confidence in XRP-linked ETF products.
🚀These products allow traditional investors, including institutions and retail traders, to gain exposure to XRP through regulated investment vehicles, bypassing direct crypto trading while still capturing upside potential.
📊 The trend comes amid broader inflows into XRP ETF products, with cumulative inflows and consistent daily demand signaling that interest isn’t just short-lived but building momentum.
📌 In summary, XRP ETFs are breaking records, attracting significant capital, and solidifying their role as a major bridge between traditional finance and the crypto market.
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@WalrusProtocol didn’t arrive as a quiet science project—it raised serious capital ahead of mainnet, then had to prove it could ship. Mainnet went live March 27, 2025, and the protocol kept adding the unglamorous stuff: better tooling, better auth, better paths for developers to publish and serve data. WAL’s story only works if the network keeps working.
Walrus’ 2025 recap reads like a maturity check: less novelty, more default reliability. The 2026 direction is about making Walrus feel effortless and making privacy a normal expectation, not a special feature. That’s the kind of infrastructure you only notice when it fails—so the real win is boring success, paid for in WAL and protected by design.
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XRP Price Drops 5% After $94 Million ETF Inflows, Maintains Top 3 Status Amid Market Pause
XRPUSDT experienced a 5.03% price decrease in the past 24 hours, closing at 2.2508 according to Binance. The decline follows a period of significant institutional inflows into spot XRP ETFs, which totaled $94.1 million over January 5 and 6 and brought cumulative inflows above $1 billion. The price pullback coincided with reports of broader market pauses affecting both Bitcoin and XRP, as well as Ripple’s confirmation that no public listing is planned despite fundraising success. Despite this short-term correction, XRP remains the third-largest non-stablecoin cryptocurrency by market capitalization, with exchange supply at multi-year lows and strong trading activity reflected in a 24-hour volume of approximately $2.59 billion on Binance Futures. Over the past week, XRP saw over 20% gains, supported by ETF-driven institutional demand, while technical analysis identifies resistance near $2.50 and key support at $2.2125.
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Been digging through the latest Walrus metrics this week, and man, the quiet compounding is real. We're only days into January 2026, but the adoption signals are stacking up: partnerships feeding into AI agents, NFT libraries, even EV data payouts via projects like DLP Labs. Storage isn't sexy until your dApp chokes without it — Walrus fixes that with low-cost, erasure-coded blobs that are programmable on Sui.
Token side? Staking rewards feel sustainable, deflationary pressure building toward usage burns, and the 10% subsidy allocation still helping bootstrap real demand without endless inflation. Price has been rough post-launch, no sugarcoating — lots of early folks underwater — but when fundamentals like petabyte-scale capacity and institutional eyes (Grayscale trust launch vibes) start aligning, recoveries hit different.
My thesis hasn't changed: this is the data layer Sui needs to dominate high-throughput use cases. Loading up on conviction dips. If you're in for the long infrastructure play, Walrus is quietly becoming essential. What's your read on where decentralized storage goes next?