@Walrus 🦭/acc Web3 applications often look impressive during early stages of development and launch.
They appear decentralized, responsive, and innovative when user activity is still limited.
The real challenge begins when applications face sustained usage over time.
As users increase, data volume grows, and historical records accumulate, infrastructure weaknesses become visible.
Most blockchains were designed to achieve consensus and verify transactions efficiently.
They were not built to handle large-scale application data that must remain accessible, durable, and consistent for years.
Because of this limitation, many decentralized applications depend on secondary or external storage layers.
When these layers are not robust enough, performance degrades and reliability suffers.
Users experience missing data, slow loading, or unexpected downtime.
At that point, decentralization offers little comfort, because trust depends on availability.
In traditional systems, storage reliability is treated as core infrastructure.
In Web3, it is still often treated as an afterthought.
This gap explains why many projects struggle to move from experimentation to real adoption.
Infrastructure that cannot guarantee long-term data reliability cannot support real economies.
For Web3 to mature, storage must be treated as a first-class component of the stack.
Only then can decentralized applications operate under real-world conditions.
Long-term survival in Web3 will not be decided by hype or design.
It will be decided by whether data remains available when it truly matters.
