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When I encountered Sites, I understood that they deal with a primary shortcoming of Web3. Most decentralized applications continue to rely on centralized hosting of their frontends, creating risks such as downtime, censorship or loss of control. Created on the Walrus Protocol and the Sui blockchain, Walrus Sites are a genuinely decentralized platform that allows hosting websites and dApp interfaces.
The Walrus Sites Foundation.
Walrus Sites place all web resources, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, among others, in blobs in the Walrus decentralized storage system. This is based on efficient erasure coding to spread data over independent nodes with low replication overhead, and high availability and resilience are guaranteed. Sui blockchain has metadata, ownership, and entry points that are controlled using smart contracts, allowing the site to be programmable and transferable like any other object on-chain.
The way they allow complete decentralization.
The Walrus Sites enable developers to make use of either the static or dynamic frontend, without server, by decoupling storage and coordination. Access occurs by means of normal browsers by using gateways such as wal.app subdomains or custom domains which are usually connected with SuiNS to resolve them. This is a censorship resistant setup with global availability because the information is accessible even in situations of node failures. The content developers are able to update the content by releasing new blobs whilst maintain ownership responsibility on Sui.
Real World Value for dApps
Walrus Sites already serve as completely on chain experiences (documentation portals, staking interfaces, community apps) in projects. Examples are such websites as docs.wal.app and stake wal.wal.app which show how hosting can work in practice without points of failure. This infrastructure is available to support more heavily media, dynamic NFTs and end facing interfaces reliably and at lower costs as more dApps on Sui and beyond are interested in end-to-end decentralization.
Personally, I believe that Walrus Sites are a positive step in the right direction of providing decentralized applications with more accessibility and durability. They redirect the partial decentralization to wholesome solutions that can be developed by developers with a lot of certainty.
@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #walrus

Depois que comecei a fazer algumas pesquisas sobre soluções de armazenamento descentralizadas alguns anos atrás, percebi rapidamente que a maioria das conversas no mundo cripto gira em torno de velocidade e escalabilidade, ou seja, quantas transações por segundo uma blockchain poderia processar. Embora isso seja certamente crucial para pagamentos e DeFi, um problema mais sutil, mas igualmente significativo, que me atraiu foi a necessidade de tornar dados grandes e não estruturados permanentemente acessíveis, sem custos elevados de acesso nem necessidades centralizadoras. Foi por isso que dediquei tempo para aprender sobre isso

Thus, consider you are working on the finance on a blockchain: computerized trades, verifying whether someone can invest, transferring assets between each other, all that code. The issue with most blockchains (such as Ethereum) is that all is out in the open. Anybody can have a look at the details who is trading what, how much, what are the rules within the contract. That is ok with certain things, but in actual finance, no. No way. You do not want people to look over your shoulder and see what is happening in your strategy, or sensitive numbers come out and inundate the entire world.
It is where @Dusk Network fits in. Basically they are the first blockchain to be constructed with ground up and confidential smart contracts privacy is not an add on feature, it is a core feature.

Their zero knowledge proofs (actually, more specifically, something called PLONK, which is extremely efficient) allow the contract to execute its code and show that it is "yeah everything is alright, conditions were satisfied, limits were not exceeded, etc" but not to indicate what the numbers or details are. You do not have to pour sensitive details into the ocean to demonstrate that you are abiding by the rules of regulators or auditors. It is the selective disclosure: reveal what you have to reveal, conceal the rest.
They also possess this so called Confidential Security Contract (or XSC) standard, which was tailored to the needs of tokenized securities, such as digital stocks, bonds, real world assets. You can write the coolest programs with XSC, which include automatic dividends, voting rights, corporate actions, all automatically on chain. And it eliminates middlemen such as custodians, such that the shareholders literally own their stuff themselves. Even trades may be negotiated privately (under the name of Smart Bulletin Boards) and afterwards settled safely no one knows about the back and for of a negotiation process until its completion.
Two ways of transacting with the dusk, one is Phoenix (full privacy, shielded, hidden balances, etc.) and the other one is Moonlight (public transactions when secrecy is not needed). Choose your own style, super flexible.
They use this VM (Rusk, currently being redesigned to run on Piecrust, in order to be fast enough) under the hood, which is specifically designed to execute these zero knowledge proofs, making it in fact useful when running confidential applications.
And the token $DUSK , is applied to stake to have everything secured, to pay gas (paying it particularly in case of the private operations) and governance so the incentives coincide.

The thing that struck me in particular is how this is applicable in the real world. The traditional finance system is such that full transparency would kill a deal due to leakage or competition. Too secretive and you will get your affairs into trouble with the regulators. Dusk strikes that honey hole of privacy, where it counts, evidence and conformity where it must be evidence and conformity. It is as though blockchain has finally come to reason like real finance experts.
Therefore, that is why I believe that confidential smart contracts can be a big disrupter of tokenized securities and even DeFi segments, so that they can be used with large players without all the exposure risks.
Thanks to the team of the @undefined foundation, which is driving this privacy first movement.
#dusk

@Walrus 🦭/acc
what I wanted to discuss today is something that I have been thinking about in the recent past how Walrus works are actually driven by in a sustainable manner. In my personal experience ripping the protocol mechanics apart, the token is a key focus of coordinating the incentives among the nodes, the delegators, and the users.
To be connected and process data blobs, storage nodes need to stake WAL and compete with each other to be delegated more information to earn more money. Consistently good performance in terms of on chain availability checks will get them a share of user paid storage fees, which are passed out uniformly across epochs. This forms a straight correlation between uptime, quality and profit.
To everyday holders, delegation will enable the involvement without an incurred infrastructure, and give them proportional income in assisting network safety. The system incorporates such mechanisms as possibility to slash poorly behaved and burn penalty on over movement of the stake, further aligning the system.
It is balanced by governance: the staked $WAL holders participate in voting on important parameters, e.g. pricing changes or upgrades to the protocol, allowing the community to influence the evolution without being controlled centrally.
It is an equilibrium design usage fund that rewards, stakes are secured and governance provides flexibility. Practically, such an arrangement is very much comfortable with long term reliability in decentralized storage.
How would you think these incentives would increase with Walrus?
#walrus

Endereços de rede abordam uma limitação central no cenário atual do Web3: a ausência de suporte nativo e prático para execução de contratos inteligentes confidenciais. Blockchains públicas se destacam pela transparência e imutabilidade, mas expõem todos os detalhes das transações e estados dos contratos. Isso as torna impraticáveis para casos de uso financeiros regulamentados, onde a sensibilidade dos dados é crítica. O Dusk foi projetado desde o início para preencher exatamente essa lacuna.
A força da plataforma reside em sua arquitetura de privacidade. Ela combina provas de conhecimento zero com criptografia homomórfica para permitir contratos inteligentes confidenciais. Esses contratos processam lógica financeira complexa enquanto ocultam entradas, saídas e valores intermediários. O Hedger, em sua fase Alpha, traz essa capacidade para ambientes EVM, permitindo que os desenvolvedores mantenham fluxos de trabalho familiares sem sacrificar a privacidade.

Vamos conversar em voz baixa por um momento, como se estivéssemos sentados juntos longe do barulho. No mundo das criptomoedas, as histórias se dividem rapidamente: um dia é tudo sobre velocidade, no dia seguinte privacidade, depois conformidade. A maioria das cadeias persegue a narrativa mais barulhenta e se dobra quando a pressão aumenta. O Dusk Network @Dusk depois faz algo diferente. Mantém-se disciplinado, preservando sua forma mesmo quando os requisitos puxam em direções opostas.
O Dusk tem sido claro desde 2018: construir uma camada-1 onde a privacidade é real, a conformidade é nativa e as instituições possam realmente participar sem atritos legais. Essa disciplina se reflete em cada camada.

Quando converso com pessoas sobre armazenamento descentralizado, geralmente percebo logo uma mal compreensão. A maioria assume que redes de armazenamento só têm valor quando os dados são acessados com frequência. Mas quando passei tempo estudando @Walrus 🦭/acc , percebi que o Walrus foi projetado para algo mais profundo: persistência de dados de longo prazo, mesmo quando os arquivos são raramente recuperados.
Walrus é um protocolo descentralizado de armazenamento e disponibilidade de dados construído para o ecossistema Sui. Sua arquitetura separa a durabilidade do armazenamento do acesso constante. Em termos simples, o Walrus não assume que todos os dados precisam ser "quentes". Uma grande parte dos dados relacionados à blockchain, como registros históricos, mídias de NFT, instantâneos de aplicações e arquivos de governança, são escritos uma vez e depois preservados por anos. O Walrus é otimizado exatamente para esse tipo de uso.

vamos sentar e conversar sobre isso de forma adequada, como se estivéssemos mapeando como a verdadeira mudança acontece no setor financeiro. @Dusk has sempre buscado tornar a finança mais justa: privacidade para usuários e instituições, conformidade para reguladores e verdadeira descentralização sem atalhos. O que me impressiona é como eles estão transformando essa visão em infraestrutura funcional, peça por peça, sem atalhos ou promessas exageradas.
Dusk começou em 2018 como uma blockchain de camada 1 focada em ambientes regulamentados. O objetivo era simples, mas ambicioso: construir uma rede onde tecnologias de preservação de privacidade se encontram com padrões regulatórios reais. Eles utilizam provas de conhecimento zero (ZKPs) e criptografia homomórfica para manter os detalhes das transações confidenciais, ao mesmo tempo em que permitem auditoria completa. O Hedger (versão Alpha já disponível) é a ferramenta-chave aqui, pois permite transações privadas, mas provavelmente corretas, em cadeias EVM, perfeito para instituições que lidam com dados sensíveis.