infrastructure, and @Walrus 🦭/acc is leading this charge by building a scalable, reliable, and programmable storage network on the Sui blockchain that supports large unstructured data like videos, images, datasets, and even decentralized websites. At its core, Walrus uses advanced erasure-coding (Red Stuff) to break data into small encoded slivers and distribute them across a wide network of storage nodes, achieving high availability and fault tolerance while keeping costs far lower than traditional storage methods. Metadata and availability proofs are maintained on Sui, allowing smart contracts to reference and validate stored content directly, making storage a programmable on-chain asset that can be integrated into decentralized apps. Developers can leverage the protocol to power decentralized media hosting, NFTs, AI datasets, and more, while users benefit from a robust alternative to centralized cloud providers. The native $WAL token is fundamental to this ecosystem — it’s used to pay for storage services, stake or delegate to storage nodes to secure the network, and participate in governance decisions around protocol parameters. As Walrus continues to evolve with features like decentralised website hosting (Walrus Sites), SDK toolkits, and resilient multi-node storage guarantees, #Walrus is becoming an indispensable infrastructure layer for builders and users seeking cost-effective, censorship-resistant, and blockchain-native storage solutions.