Three years back, I worked as an archivist to a small film organization in Lahore. An image had terabytes of raw footage a video of interviews with distant villages, 4K drone shots of the north valleys, and hours of raw storytelling which should be immortalized. But the truth was realized very fast: the old NAS came to a halt twice, cloud bills ate up our small budget and we walked on the verge of virtues never to be replaced in our cultural memory. Subsequently, one day, I spent a late hour in research when I found out about the existence of @walrusprotocol.
This is not what struck me, a promise that was decentralized; it was the narration itself. Walrus not only does not look at data as lifeless files it views them as living ones, which can be preserved, shared and even monetized over the years. Our full archive was migrated using the efficiency that Sui blockchain provides. The process was practically a magic one: the coded blobs were spread over the network and proved instantly. Under $WAL, we had a reasonable and foreseeable storage charges and no longer at the end of the month did we see panic. Those films are today not only safe, they are discoverable. Independent filmmakers in all South Asian regions now license clips under $WAL which makes our preservation work a small, but viable source of income.
We could be erasing our own history and forgotten in a world that is in a frenzied attempt to forget its own history and roots; our stories were made permanent by @walrusprotocol. When you have any memories worth preserving, this is the place they will go.
@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL
