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Walrus is one of those crypto names that sounds funny at first, but the idea behind it is actually very serious. The project is built around a problem that almost every blockchain app eventually hits: blockchains are great at storing small records, but they are terrible at storing big files. The moment you move from simple transactions to real media and real products, you need a place to store large data safely.
Most people don’t notice this problem because it’s hidden. An NFT might be “onchain,” but the image or video is often stored somewhere else. A game might use crypto items, but the actual game assets live on normal servers. A social app might use wallets and tokens, but the posts, images, and videos are usually stored in Web2 cloud storage. If those servers go down, links break, or files get changed, the “onchain” part still exists, but the thing you actually care about can disappear or become useless.
Walrus is trying to solve that by being a decentralized home for big files. It focuses on what they often call “blobs,” which basically means large chunks of data like images, videos, datasets, PDFs, game files, and AI-related data. Instead of depending on one company’s cloud storage, Walrus spreads storage across a network of independent operators, so the data doesn’t rely on one single point of failure.
A helpful way to imagine Walrus is like this: Sui acts like the control room, and Walrus acts like the warehouse network. The Sui blockchain is used for coordination and rules—things like tracking commitments, registering storage, and managing the logic around it. The Walrus network is where the actual heavy data is stored and served. That setup is important because it keeps the blockchain from getting overloaded with massive files, while still giving the system a trustworthy way to coordinate everything.
Now here’s the part that makes Walrus feel more “engineered” than many simple storage ideas. Walrus doesn’t just store full copies of your file on different nodes. Instead, it breaks your file into pieces and uses a reliability method called erasure coding. In simple terms, erasure coding is like smart backup math. It creates extra recovery pieces, so even if some storage nodes go offline or lose their pieces, your file can still be rebuilt from the pieces that remain. This makes the network more resilient without needing to store a ton of full copies, which would be expensive.
Walrus also has its own approach to this encoding method, often referred to as “Red Stuff.” You don’t need to memorize the name, but the main point is that Walrus is trying to balance reliability and cost. It wants to keep data safe even if some nodes fail, while also keeping storage efficient enough that real apps can afford to use it.
A big challenge in decentralized storage is trust. People always ask the same question: how do I know the storage nodes actually stored my data and didn’t just pretend? Walrus tries to answer that with something called Proof of Availability. In normal words, it’s like a verified receipt that confirms the network has accepted responsibility for storing your file for a certain period. It’s meant to reduce “trust me bro” storage and replace it with a clearer system of commitments that can be checked.
This is where the WAL token comes in. WAL isn’t supposed to exist only for trading. It’s meant to power the storage economy inside the network. Users pay in WAL to store their blobs. Storage operators stake WAL to participate, which helps align incentives, because operators have something to lose if they behave badly. Staking also helps the network decide who gets to serve and earn rewards, and it gives the system a way to encourage reliable behavior over time.
When you look at tokenomics in a practical way, the important thing isn’t only the percentage breakdown. The real question is whether the network can move from “subsidized growth” to “real demand.” Many networks start with incentives to attract builders and operators, which is normal. But the long-term success depends on whether real apps and real users keep paying for storage because they actually need it.
The ecosystem side is the most important part of Walrus’s story. Storage protocols become valuable when real products depend on them. The most obvious use cases are NFTs where the media should never disappear, games that need to store big assets like 3D models and maps, social apps that store posts and videos, and data-heavy platforms like AI tools or data marketplaces. If Walrus becomes the default place for apps to store large data in a decentralized way, then it turns into real infrastructure instead of just another token.
Walrus also connects strongly to the “AI era” narrative, because AI runs on data. Datasets are becoming more valuable, and people are starting to care about who owns data, who can access it, and whether it can be proven and tracked. Walrus is trying to position itself as a place where data can be stored reliably, shared in a controlled way (often through encryption at the app level), and used as a real asset.
But it’s also important to be honest about the challenges. Decentralized storage is a competitive space, and Walrus has to prove real advantages in cost, reliability, and developer experience. If building on it feels complicated, developers may choose simpler options. If retrieval is slow or painful, users won’t care how advanced the technology is. And like every decentralized storage network, Walrus will face real-world pressure around harmful content and legal responsibility, because node operators exist in real jurisdictions.
At the end of the day, the most human way to understand Walrus is this: it’s trying to become the “big file layer” for Web3, so crypto apps don’t have to secretly rely on Web2 storage for everything that matters. It’s less about hype and more about infrastructure. If it works well at scale and enough real applications adopt it, Walrus can become one of those protocols that quietly powers a lot of things in the background—like the way cloud storage powers the modern internet today.

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Walrus (WAL) n'est pas le genre de projet de cryptomonnaie qui crie pour attirer l'attention. Il n'est pas basé sur la hype, les memes ou des histoires de « profit rapide ». Il est plus proche de l'infrastructure réelle d'internet — les choses ennuyeuses mais importantes qui gardent les applications en vie. Walrus essaie essentiellement de résoudre un problème simple que Web3 peine encore à régler : où stocker de grands fichiers de manière véritablement décentralisée, sans qu'ils disparaissent, sans censure et sans dépendre d'une seule entreprise ? Walrus est conçu pour fonctionner en étroite collaboration avec la blockchain Sui, où Sui gère la logique onchain et les reçus, tandis que Walrus s'occupe du travail de stockage lourd.

Walrus essaie essentiellement de résoudre une des vérités les plus gênantes dans le domaine de la cryptomonnaie : de nombreuses applications « décentralisées » dépendent encore de stockages centralisés. Le jeton pourrait être sur la chaîne, le contrat intelligent pourrait être sur la chaîne, mais le contenu réel — images, vidéos, documents, actifs de jeux, sites web, jeux de données d'IA — se trouve souvent sur un serveur normal ou un conteneur de cloud. Et lorsque ce lien tombe en panne, l'application tombe en panne. Walrus est conçu pour éliminer ce point faible en offrant un emplacement décentralisé pour stocker de grands fichiers de manière que les applications puissent les utiliser de façon fiable au fil du temps.

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