The rise of Web3 and AI‑driven applications has created an urgent need for scalable, secure, and cost‑effective data storage solutions — and that’s exactly where @Walrus 🦭/acc steps in. Built on the high‑performance Sui blockchain, the Walrus protocol offers a decentralized storage and data availability network that enables developers and users to store large files like images, videos, and datasets in a trustless and censorship‑resistant way. By leveraging advanced encoding techniques and a distributed network of storage nodes, Walrus drastically reduces storage costs while maintaining high data integrity and availability — essential for NFTs, AI model datasets, decentralized apps, and dynamic Web3 use cases. The native token, $WAL , serves as the backbone of the ecosystem: users pay for storage services with WAL, stake or delegate tokens to support network operations, and participate in governance decisions that shape the protocol’s evolution. Since its mainnet launch, Walrus has rapidly gained adoption across projects seeking robust data infrastructure, making #walrus a cornerstone of decentralized storage innovation.