When Data Needs to Outlive Markets
Most blockchains assume data will always be there. History shows that’s a risky assumption.
Walrus was designed around a quieter problem: long-term data survivability. In finance, records must last years, sometimes decades. Trades, disclosures, and audit trails can’t disappear when incentives change or nodes go offline.
Walrus treats data as something that must be preserved, not just temporarily hosted. It spreads responsibility across many participants, reducing reliance on any single operator or institution. This matters for regulated finance, where decentralization isn’t about chaos, but about resilience and accountability.
I see Walrus less as crypto infrastructure and more as financial plumbing. It’s built for the unglamorous but essential task of making sure today’s data still exists when it’s legally and economically needed tomorrow.
