Unpopular opinion: 95% of "decentralized" apps aren't actually decentralized and it's embarrassing.
Your favorite dApp runs on blockchain sure. Smart contracts all verified. Very decentralized much wow.
Now ask where the frontend is hosted. AWS.
Where are the images stored. Google Cloud.
Where's the metadata. Centralized database.
One lawyer letter to Amazon and your "unstoppable decentralized application" is GONE. Poof. Centralized kill switch the whole time.
This is the dirty secret nobody wants to talk about. We're building "Web3" on Web2 infrastructure and hoping nobody notices.
@Walrus 🦭/acc is calling out this hypocrisy and actually fixing it. $WAL on Sui providing truly decentralized storage using erasure coding.
Not IPFS where files disappear if nobody pins them. Not Filecoin where costs are unpredictable. Actual permanent censorship resistant storage that's CHEAPER than AWS.
If you're a developer still deploying to Vercel and storing on S3 while calling your project "decentralized" you're part of the problem. Users trust you and you're giving them fake decentralization.
Walrus makes it easy. Sui blockchain gives you speed. Erasure coding gives you efficiency. $WAL staking gives you incentives. Everything you need to actually build what you've been claiming to build.
The excuse of "decentralized storage isn't ready yet" died. It's ready. You're just lazy or uninformed.
Real talk - in 2 years when regulators start enforcing truth in advertising for "decentralized" claims a lot of projects are screwed. Better fix your infrastructure now.
@Walrus 🦭/acc is the solution. Stop pretending and start building right.
