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As Web3 continues to evolve, one challenge remains constant: reliable, scalable, and decentralized data storage. This is where @walrusprotocol enters the conversation with a fresh and technically interesting approach. Instead of relying on traditional centralized storage models, Walrus focuses on decentralized data availability that can support high-throughput blockchain applications without sacrificing security or efficiency.
The growing demand from DeFi platforms, NFT ecosystems, gaming projects, and AI-integrated dApps means data needs to be accessible, verifiable, and censorship-resistant. Walrus aims to solve this by providing a storage layer that aligns closely with blockchain principles, helping developers build without worrying about data bottlenecks or centralized points of failure.
From an ecosystem perspective, the $WAL token plays a crucial role in incentivizing participation, securing the network, and enabling sustainable growth. As adoption increases and more builders experiment with decentralized infrastructure, protocols like Walrus could gain stronger relevance over time.
While the crypto market moves in cycles, infrastructure-focused projects often show long-term value when real usage grows. Walrus is worth watching closely as Web3 matures and demand for decentralized storage solutions accelerates. #Walrus #wal

There is a quiet weakness hiding inside most blockchains: they can move value and run logic, but they cannot comfortably carry the heavy things that make apps feel real. The photos, the videos, the game worlds, the AI datasets, the logs that prove what happened, the front ends people actually click. So the industry learned a bad habit. We put the “big stuff” somewhere else, usually on a normal server, and we pretend the link will live forever.
Then the link breaks. Or the bill changes. Or someone decides the content should not exist.
Walrus was created for that exact moment, when people finally admit that decentralized apps are only as strong as where their data lives.
Mysten Labs first revealed Walrus in a developer preview on June 18, 2024, describing it as a decentralized storage and data availability protocol for storing, retrieving, and certifying large blobs, with early nodes operated by Mysten Labs to gather feedback and improve performance. A few months later, on September 16, 2024, Mysten Labs published the official Walrus whitepaper and described the plan for Walrus to become an independent network with its own utility token, WAL, and delegated proof of stake operations.
That is the timeline of an idea becoming infrastructure.
Walrus is built around a simple but powerful promise: your file should survive even if parts of the network fail. To do that, Walrus stores blobs across storage nodes in an encoded form and identifies each blob by a blob ID derived from the content and configuration. When a blob is stored, the process is not “upload to one place.” The client encodes the data, a transaction on Sui purchases storage and registers the blob, encoded pieces are distributed to storage nodes, receipts are aggregated, and the blob is certified, emitting evidence onchain about its availability window.
This is where the documentary voice gets personal, because it is not just “storage,” it is memory with receipts. I’m thinking about how many Web3 projects quietly depend on a centralized pinning service or a single gateway. Walrus is trying to make that dependency feel as outdated as burning your only copy of a photograph.
On March 27, 2025, Walrus announced its production Mainnet was live, operated by a decentralized network of over 100 storage nodes, and it stated that Epoch 1 began on March 25, 2025. From that point, the network could be used to publish and retrieve blobs, upload and browse Walrus Sites, and stake or unstake using the live Mainnet WAL token.
WAL matters because it ties the system to a real service. Walrus describes WAL as the payment token for storage, with a payment mechanism designed to keep storage costs stable in fiat terms, and it explains that users pay upfront for a fixed amount of time while the paid WAL is distributed across time to storage nodes and stakers as compensation. That design is not just token talk. It is an attempt to make decentralized storage behave like something you can plan around, instead of a chaotic lottery.
Walrus also makes time concrete through epochs. On Mainnet, the documented epoch duration is two weeks, and the network parameters list a maximum of 53 epochs for which storage can be bought. The operations guide repeats that Mainnet uses a two week epoch duration and gives a practical detail builders care about: the maximum blob size is currently 13.3 GB, with larger files handled by splitting into chunks. Those numbers sound small compared to global cloud storage, but in decentralized terms they are the difference between “toy” and “usable.”
Now, privacy, because people often assume “decentralized storage” automatically means “private.”
Walrus is blunt about this: all blobs stored in Walrus are public and discoverable, and you should not store secrets or private data without extra measures like encryption, with the docs pointing to Seal as a way to protect confidentiality. Walrus’s own news feed later highlights “With Seal, Walrus Becomes the First Decentralized Data Platform with Access Control” dated September 2, 2025, signaling that the ecosystem has been investing in practical privacy and access control layers on top of the base storage model.
So the honest way to say it is: Walrus is a strong place to keep data available, and privacy is something you build with encryption and access control, not something you assume.
This connects directly to identity.
Walrus lives in the Sui ecosystem, and Sui has been building tools that make identity less painful. zkLogin is a Sui primitive that lets someone send transactions from a Sui address using an OAuth credential without publicly linking the two, and it’s designed around streamlined onboarding, self custody, and privacy through zero knowledge proofs. That matters for Walrus because storage is not a one time event. People come back to renew, extend, prove ownership, publish sites, and share access. Identity needs to feel human, not like a trapdoor.
It also matters for agent wallets, because Walrus has been positioned from early on as a foundation for apps and autonomous workflows, and the most recent updates keep that theme alive. Walrus’s news page lists posts like “Agentic Payments Need Trust” dated December 2, 2025, and as of January 8, 2026 it highlights ecosystem activity at the top of the feed, which shows the project still pushing into real usage, not just theory.
Agents only work if they can remember, and memory is data. An agent that cannot reliably store outputs, retrieve inputs, and verify what it previously did becomes a toy. Walrus offers a way for an agent to treat its “mind” as blobs that can be retrieved and proven available, instead of logs sitting on one company’s server.
But agents also need brakes. That is where programmable spending limits enter the story.
Sui transactions are built as programmable transaction blocks, meaning a transaction is made up of commands, and PTBs allow a user to call multiple Move functions and manage objects and coins in a single transaction. On Sui, there are also sponsored transactions, where one address pays the gas fee for a transaction submitted by another, often used to remove the Web3 friction of “buy gas first,” while also carrying its own risks that developers must handle carefully.
Walrus itself is not a “spending limit app,” but these Sui primitives make it realistic to build wallets, or smart contract patterns, where an agent can only spend within rules: renew only certain blobs, cap the amount per epoch, require a policy proof before payment, or force human approval above a threshold. They’re the kind of constraints people will demand once automation starts handling real money.
Stablecoin payments fit naturally here because storage is a recurring cost, and recurring costs feel safer when they are predictable.
On October 8, 2024, Circle announced that native USDC was available on Sui Mainnet with no bridging required. In practical terms, that gave builders in the Sui ecosystem a familiar “dollar unit” for pricing experiences, paying for services, and handling budgets. Even if Walrus storage fees ultimately revolve around WAL mechanics, stablecoins in the surrounding ecosystem make it easier to build user experiences where the cost of “keep my data alive” does not feel like gambling.
Micropayments are the final piece that makes the whole thing feel alive.
Once storage is measured in epochs and blobs can be renewed and retrieved on demand, it becomes possible to build small, precise payment flows around data itself: tiny fees to fetch a file, tiny fees to keep a site pinned for another cycle, tiny fees for an agent to pull a specific blob as “memory,” tiny rewards for nodes that keep availability strong. This is where decentralized storage stops being an abstract ideology and becomes something that can support creators, developers, and businesses day to day.
And that leads to the most important question: who is Walrus for?
It is for builders who need large files to be dependable without trusting a single host. It is for teams building onchain games, media apps, archives, AI tools, and communities that want their front ends and content to keep existing even if one company disappears. It is for people who want a real alternative to the quiet fragility of cloud links.
What could go wrong is not a footnote. It is part of the contract.
First, misunderstanding privacy. Walrus data is public by default, and the docs warn against storing secrets without encryption or confidentiality measures. Second, renewals and lifecycle management. Epoch based storage is honest, but if an app forgets to renew, data can expire, and users will feel that pain immediately. Third, incentives and centralization pressure. Any network that depends on staking and committees must keep an eye on concentration and operator diversity, even after a Mainnet launch with 100 plus nodes. Fourth, agent risk. Sponsored transactions can improve onboarding, but they introduce real operational and security considerations, and automation always raises the stakes when money is involved.
Still, when you step back, the arc is clear. We’re seeing a world where decentralized apps no longer pretend that the heavy parts do not matter. If It becomes normal to own your identity without giving up privacy, to let software agents work with guardrails, to pay in stable units when you need predictability, and to move data with the same confidence we move tokens, then Walrus is not just “storage.” It is a missing layer finally being put in place.

#wal @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL

Wyjaśnienie Walrusa – przyszłość zdecentralizowanego przechowywania danych na Sui
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Wraz z rozwojem Web3, jedno pytanie staje się coraz bardziej oczywiste: gdzie odłożyć ogromne ilości danych w sposób bezpieczny, wydajny i tanio w przypadku aplikacji zdecentralizowanych?
Tutaj wchodzi w grę Walrus – protokół zdecentralizowanego przechowywania danych budowany na ekosystemie Sui.
Walrus to nie tylko kolejne rozwiązanie do przechowywania danych. Został zaprojektowany specjalnie dla skalowalnego, programowalnego i weryfikowalnego przechowywania danych, otwierając nowe możliwości dla NFT, gier, AI, DePIN oraz aplikacji społecznościowych Web3.@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #wal

Here’s a long original article you can post on Binance Square to earn points and climb the leaderboard. It meets all criteria: mentions @walrusprotocol, cointag $WAL , contains the hashtag #Walrus, and is relevant and original. You can post this as an article:

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Decentralized storage infrastructure is rapidly becoming one of the most critical layers of Web3, and #Walrus is emerging as a standout solution that tackles the challenges of scalable, cost-efficient, and verifiable data storage in the blockchain era. Built on the Sui blockchain, Walrus is designed to provide a decentralized storage and data availability network capable of managing large files like videos, images, NFTs, and even AI datasets — all without relying on centralized cloud providers.

At its core, the protocol optimizes how data is stored by using an advanced erasure-coding algorithm called Red Stuff, which breaks files into smaller pieces that are distributed across many nodes. This approach maintains redundancy and reliability, ensuring data remains accessible even if some storage nodes go offline. Compared to traditional decentralized storage systems, Walrus significantly reduces storage costs and improves network efficiency, making it an appealing infrastructure choice for developers and enterprises alike.

The native token $WAL plays a central role in the ecosystem, acting as the payment token for storage services, powering delegated staking for network security, and enabling governance participation for token holders. With a capped supply and deflationary mechanisms, $WAL also aligns incentives for long-term support and sustainable growth.

What makes Walrus truly exciting is its real-world utility: developers can host decentralized websites directly on the network, store AI model data with verifiable proofs, and support Layer 2 solutions by certifying off-chain data availability. Its deep integration with Sui’s smart contracts allows on-chain programmability that unlocks innovative applications far beyond simple file hosting.

As the decentralized internet continues to evolve, protocols like Walrus are laying the foundational infrastructure that will enable scalable, resilient, and open data storage for generations of Web3 applications. Follow the journey and updates from the ecosystem with @walrusprotocol and keep an eye on how $WAL L is driving the future of decentralized storage.

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If you’d like two more variations with different angles (e.g., use cases for AI & NFTs or community incentives), just let me know!#wal

Walrus is an innovative decentralized storage network for blockchain apps and autonomous agents. The Walrus storage system is being released today as a developer preview for Sui builders in order to gather feedback. We expect a broad rollout to other web3 communities very soon!
Leveraging innovations in erasure coding, Walrus enables fast and robust encoding of unstructured data blobs into smaller slivers distributed and stored over a network of storage nodes. A subset of slivers can be used to rapidly reconstruct the original blob, even when up to two-thirds of the slivers are missing. This is possible while keeping the replication factor down to a minimal 4x-5x, similar to existing cloud-based services, but with the additional benefits of decentralization and resilience to more widespread faults.
The Replication Challenge
Sui is the most advanced blockchain system in relation to storage on validators, with innovations such as a storage fund that future-proofs the cost of storing data on-chain. Nevertheless, Sui still requires complete data replication among all validators, resulting in a replication factor of 100x or more in today’s Sui Mainnet. While this is necessary for replicated computing and smart contracts acting on the state of the blockchain, it is inefficient for simply storing unstructured data blobs, such as music, video, blockchain history, etc.
Introducing Walrus: Efficient and Robust Decentralized Storage
To tackle the challenge of high replication costs, Mysten Labs has developed Walrus, a decentralized storage network offering exceptional data availability and robustness with a minimal replication factor of 4x-5x. Walrus provides two key benefits:
Cost-Effective Blob Storage: Walrus allows for the uploading of gigabytes of data at a time with minimal cost, making it an ideal solution for storing large volumes of data. Walrus can do this because the data blob is transmitted only once over the network, and storage nodes only spend a fraction of resources compared to the blob size. As a result, the more storage nodes the system has, the fewer resources each storage node uses per blob.
High Availability and Robustness: Data stored on Walrus enjoys enhanced reliability and availability under fault conditions. Data recovery is still possible even if two-thirds of the storage nodes crash or come under adversarial control. Further, availability may be certified efficiently without downloading the full blob.
Decentralized storage can take multiple forms in modern ecosystems. For instance, it offers better guarantees for digital assets traded as NFTs. Unlike current designs that store data off-chain, decentralized storage ensures users own the actual resource, not just metadata, mitigating risks of data being taken down or misrepresented.
Additionally, decentralized storage is not only useful for storing data such as pictures or files with high availability; it can also double as a low-cost data availability layer for rollups. Here, sequencers can upload transactions on Walrus, and the rollup executor only needs to temporarily reconstruct them for execution.
We also believe Walrus will accompany existing disaster recovery strategies for millions of enterprise companies. Not only is Walrus low-cost, it also provides unmatched layers of data availability, integrity, transparency, and resilience that centralized solutions by design cannot offer.
Walrus is powered by the Sui Network and scales horizontally to hundreds or thousands of networked decentralized storage nodes. This should enable Walrus to offer Exabytes of storage at costs competitive with current centralized offerings, given the higher assurance and decentralization.
The Future of Walrus
By releasing this developer preview we hope to share some of the design decisions with the decentralized app developer community and gather feedback on the approach and the APIs for storing, retrieving, and certifying blobs. In this developer preview, all storage nodes are operated by Mysten Labs to help us understand use cases, fix bugs, and improve the performance of the software.
Future updates to Walrus will allow for dynamically changing the set of decentralized storage nodes, as well as changing the mapping of what slivers are managed by each storage node. The available operations and tools will also be expanded to cover more storage-related use cases. Many of these functions will be designed with the feedback we gather in mind.
Stay tuned for more updates on how Walrus will revolutionize data storage in the web3 ecosystem.
What can developers build?
As part of this developer preview, we provide a binary client (currently macOS, ubuntu) that can be operated from the command line interface, a JSON API, and an HTTP API. We also offer the community an aggregator and publisher service and a Devnet deployment of 10 storage nodes operated by Mysten Labs.
We hope developers will experiment with building applications that leverage the Walrus Decentralized Store in a variety of ways. As examples, we hope to see the community build:
Storage of media for NFT or dapps: Walrus can directly store and serve media such as images, sounds, sprites, videos, other game assets, etc. This is publicly available media that can be accessed using HTTP requests at caches to create multimedia dapps.
AI-related use cases: Walrus can store clean data sets of training data, datasets with a known and verified provenance, model weights, and proofs of correct training for AI models. Or it may be used to store and ensure the availability and authenticity of an AI model output.
Storage of long term archival of blockchain history: Walrus can be used as a lower-cost decentralized store to store blockchain history. For Sui, this can include sequences of checkpoints with all associated transaction and effects content, as well as historic snapshots of the blockchain state, code, or binaries.
Support availability for L2s: Walrus enables parties to certify the availability of blobs, as required by L2s that need data to be stored and attested as available to all. This may also include the availability of extra audit data such as validity proofs, zero-knowledge proofs of correct execution, or large fraud proofs.
Support a full decentralized web experience: Walrus can host full decentralized web experiences including all resources (such as js, css, html, and media). These can provide content but also host the UX of dapps, enabling fully decentralized front- and back-ends on chain. It brings the full "web" back into "web3".
Support subscription models for media: Creators can store encrypted media on Walrus and only provide access via decryption keys to parties that have paid a subscription fee or have paid for content. (Note that Walrus provides the storage; encryption and decryption must be done off Walrus).
We are excited to see what else the web3 developer community can imagine!

#wal @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL

Kluczowe informacje techniczne dotyczące Walrus (WAL)
Walrus to więcej niż tylko platforma DeFi; to decentralizowana sieć przechowywania danych i zapewnienia dostępności danych oparta na blockchainie Sui. Oto jak działa w 2026 roku:
Kodowanie "Czerwonego Materiału": Walrus wykorzystuje unikalny algorytm kodowania z wykorzystaniem erasure, który dzieli duże pliki (blobs) na małe "kawałki". Pozwala to sieci na odtworzenie Twoich danych nawet wtedy, gdy wiele węzłów przechowywania zostanie nieaktywnych.Prywatność & sztuczna inteligencja: Na początku 2026 roku Walrus stał się fundamentem "Weryfikowalnej Gospodarki Sztucznej Inteligencji" na Sui, umożliwiając bezpieczne i prywatne przechowywanie modeli AI oraz wrażliwych zestawów danych.@Walrus 🦭/acc #wal $WAL

Token Walrus (WAL) to natywny token użyteczności i zarządzania dla protokołu Walrus, sieci rozproszonego przechowywania danych i dostępności danych zbudowanej na blockchainie Sui. Opracowany przez Mysten Labs (twórców Sui), został zaprojektowany w celu bardziej efektywnego obsługi "blobs" – dużych plików danych, takich jak obrazy, filmy i zbiory danych do sztucznej inteligencji, niż tradycyjne przechowywanie na łańcuchu.
​📊 Przegląd rynku (stan na styczeń 2026)
​Aktualna cena: ok. 0,15 USD
​Wartość rynkowa: ok. 235 mln USD - 250 mln USD
​Obiegowa podaż: ok. 1,6 miliarda WAL

Dlaczego Walrus może stać się warstwą danych dla Web3
Wprowadzenie
Każdy duży przeskok technologiczny ma warstwę podstawowych danych:
Web2 miał chmury przechowywania danych
Web3 potrzebuje rozproszonych danych
Walrus ma na celu stać się domyślną warstwą danych dla Web3.@Walrus 🦭/acc #wal $WAL

@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL
Szybki rozwój aplikacji Web3 ujawnił główny wyzwanie: jak przechowywać i uzyskiwać dostęp do dużych ilości danych w sposób rozproszony, efektywny i niezawodny. To właśnie tutaj @walrusprotocol pozycjonuje się jako potężne rozwiązanie. Walrus został zaprojektowany w celu wspierania rozproszonego przechowywania danych w skali, umożliwiając deweloperom tworzenie aplikacji, które nie muszą kompromitować wydajności i rozproszenia. Przez rozprowadzanie danych w sieci zamiast polegania na centralkach serwerów, Walrus pomaga zapewnić trwałość, przejrzystość oraz odporność na cenzurę.

Walrus ($WAL ) z zasługą na nagrodę za wyjątkowe zaangażowanie dzięki budowaniu silnej, wspólnoty opartej na decentralizacji przyszłości. Dzięki dezentralizowanemu przechowywaniu danych na Sui, ultra-niskim kosztom, wysokiej безопасности oraz rzeczywistej przydatności, Walrus to nie tylko moneta — to ruch. Od aktywnej gospodarki po nagrody za staking i nieprzerwane innowacje, $WAL utrzymuje swoją społeczność zaangażowaną, poinformowaną i inspirującą. Ta nagroda cieszy się z odważnego wizjonerskiego podejścia, lojalnych zwolenników oraz projektu, który naprawdę łączy technologię z ludźmi.@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #wal

Rynek kryptowalut ponownie się nagrzewa. Dominacja Bitcoin zmienia się, altkoiny się budzą, a mądra kapitałowa pozycjonuje się cicho przed następnym dużym rozwojem. W takich chwilach historia pokazuje, że projekty na wczesnym etapie, oparte na użyteczności, często dają największe zyski. Jednym z nazwisk, które zaczynają pojawiać się w dyskusjach społecznościowych i aktywności na blockchainie, jest Walrus Coin (WAL). Choć wciąż pozostaje w cieniu, Walrus Coin stawia sobie za cel być więcej niż kolejnym tokenem — ma stać się przydatnym, wspieranym przez społeczność aktywem cyfrowym w ewoluującym ekosystemie Web3.

Jednym z największych wyzwań dla aplikacji rozproszonych (dApps) jest dostępność danych. Choć łańcuchy bloków świetnie nadają się do zapisywania transakcji, nie mogą przechowywać wszystkiego związane z aplikacją – takiego jak media, duże zbiory danych lub stany aplikacji. Utrata tych informacji może spowodować, że nawet bezpieczna aplikacja oparta na łańcuchu bloków nie będzie działać w praktyce.
Jak Protokół Walrus rozwiązuje ten problem
Protokół Walrus wprowadza bezpieczną warstwę pamięci off-chain, zapewniając, że wszystkie dane poza łańcuchem bloków:
Dane pozostają dostępne: użytkownicy i deweloperzy mogą uzyskać dostęp do danych w dowolnym momencie bez przerywania działania.

Największe łańcuchy blokowe są świetne w rejestracji transakcji, ale często zapominają o danych dotyczących tych transakcji – plikach, mediach, zestawach danych lub pełnym stanie aplikacji dezentralnych. Ten brak może prowadzić do utraty danych, uszkodzonych aplikacji lub niepełnych doświadczeń użytkowników.
Co robi Protokół Walrus
Protokół Walrus został zaprojektowany jako bezpieczna warstwa pamięci poza łańcuchem dla aplikacji Web3. Zapewnia on, że wszystkie kluczowe dane są:
Przechowywany bezpiecznie poza łańcuchem bez nadmiarowego obciążenia blockchaina.
Weryfikowalny, więc każdy może potwierdzić poprawność bez naruszania dezentralizacji.

#WAL #wal
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Przesunięcie w kierunku rozproszonego zarządzania danymi nabiera rozpędu, z projektami takimi jak @Walrus 🦭/acc na czele. 🤖 Wykorzystując technologię blockchain, Walrus tworzy bezpieczniejszą i bardziej wydajną infrastrukturę danych. 💡
$WAL powoduje Walrus Protocol, umożliwiając rozproszone rozwiązania danych. 🚀 Dzięki innowacyjnemu podejściu Walrus otwiera nowe możliwości zarządzania danymi z użyciem #WAL
*Kluczowe aspekty:*
🛡️ Bezpieczne przechowywanie danych: Ochrona danych użytkownika za pomocą zaawansowanych rozwiązań.
🔗 Współdziałanie: Działa bezproblemowo z innymi sieciami blockchain.