Our digital lives run on data. From personal photos and medical records to the massive datasets that train artificial intelligence, everything is stored somewhere. Today, that "somewhere" is almost always a massive, centralized server farm owned by a handful of big companies. This creates real problems: single points of failure, risk of censorship, high costs, and a lack of true user ownership .
For the next generation of the internet, known as Web3, this is a major roadblock. How can something be decentralized and user-owned if its essential data sits on a centralized server? This was the gap that the founders of Walrus, a team of veteran engineers from places like Meta and Apple, saw clearly . They knew that for Web3 and AI to reach their full potential, they would need a new kind of storage foundation.
