Technology alone doesn’t guarantee reliability — incentives do. You can design the best protocol in the world, but if participants earn the same rewards whether they behave well or not, the system slowly degrades.

Walrus approaches this differently. Incentives are directly tied to verifiable actions. Storage providers must regularly submit cryptographic proofs showing that data remains available. If they fail, rewards disappear. That feedback loop matters.

What I think makes this powerful is that reliability becomes measurable. @Walrus 🦭/acc doesn’t rely on reputation or trust. It relies on incentives that reward consistency over time. $WAL #walrus