RedStuff: Storage Built for Efficiency, Not Extremes
How Walrus Redefines Data Safety and Cost
Most decentralized storage networks compete by pushing extreme numbers — more copies, more redundancy, more cost.
Walrus took a smarter route.
With its RedStuff two-dimensional erasure coding, Walrus keeps redundancy around 4–5x while maintaining very high data availability. This sharply reduces storage costs compared to legacy models that rely on excessive replication.
What makes RedStuff different is recovery speed. If part of the network goes offline, data can be rebuilt quickly using row-and-column reconstruction — often in minutes instead of hours. This is critical for AI training workloads where frequent access matters.
Walrus proves you don’t need extremes to achieve reliability — you need intelligent design.