Many projects claim they want to serve all of Web3 but Walrus intentionally does the opposite. Its design is not for casually storing junk data, nor for high-frequency writing and deletion.
Walrus excels in three areas: stability, verifiability, and long-term existence. It’s ideal for high-value, low-frequency data: protocol-level state, long-term content, model versions, or core files of on-chain assets—not temporary user uploads.
Its storage redundancy far exceeds typical decentralized solutions. This boosts security but keeps costs from being ultra-low—a choice that may seem “anti-market,” but reflects Walrus’s true goal: to become the default trusted storage for data that must never be lost.
This also shapes its growth. Walrus won’t spike in user numbers overnight. Its adoption is slow, infrastructure-like, but highly sticky, migration costs are high once chosen.
In short: Walrus doesn’t need everyone to use it. It only needs the right users, and its value will be undeniable.