In the world of decentralized storage, redundancy is usually expensive. If you want your data to be safe, you usually have to copy it dozens of times, which drives up prices. @Walrus 🦭/acc solves this with a revolutionary encoding scheme called Red Stuff.
Red Stuff is a 2D erasure coding protocol. Instead of simple replication, it breaks data into shards and distributes them across the network. The magic lies in the recovery: even if up to two-thirds of the storage nodes go offline, the original file can be reconstructed perfectly.
While competitors like Arweave might require a 100x-500x replication factor for safety, Walrus achieves the same durability with only a 4x-5x factor. This efficiency is why $WAL is positioned as a low-cost leader in the space, currently estimated at a fraction of the cost per terabyte compared to older protocols.