In the explosive growth of Web3 and AI, one massive bottleneck remains: trustworthy, affordable, and programmable data storage. Centralized clouds like AWS dominate, but they come with censorship risks, high long-term costs, and zero true ownership. Enter @Walrus 🦭/acc – the high-performance decentralized storage protocol built natively on Sui that's quietly solving these problems at scale.
Launched on mainnet in March 2025 by the Mysten Labs team (the minds behind Sui), Walrus specializes in blob storage – perfect for large unstructured files like videos, images, AI datasets, NFTs, media libraries, and even blockchain history archives. Unlike older protocols (Filecoin's heavy replication or Arweave's one-time payment model), Walrus uses innovative Red Stuff erasure coding to split data into efficient "slivers" distributed across a global network of nodes. This achieves cloud-like speed and reliability with only 4-5x replication – slashing costs dramatically while maintaining Byzantine fault tolerance (survives up to 1/3 malicious nodes)
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