Walrus was created to solve a problem that becomes obvious only once blockchains start supporting real applications: the inability of blockchains to efficiently store large, unstructured, and persistent data (blobs) at scale.
While blockchains excel at consensus, smart contract execution, and transaction settlement, they are fundamentally designed for small amounts of data, not the massive files required by modern applications—such as high-resolution NFT assets, AI models, gaming assets, or large database logs.
Key aspects of this problem and Walrus's solution include:
The "Uncomfortable" Compromise: Before Walrus, many decentralized apps (dApps) wereforced to store critical data on centralized cloud providers, undermining the very decentralization they intended to achieve.
Inefficiency of On-Chain Storage: Storing large data directly on a blockchain is prohibitively expensive because every validator must replicate all data, creating massive redundancy costs.
The "Silent" Failure Point: The reliance on central servers created "hidden" trust assumptions and single points of failure where data could be censored or lost.
The Solution (Decentralized Blob Storage): Walrus solves this by offering a decentralized storage network that uses advanced erasure coding (Red Stuff) to ensure high availability, security, and resilience, while keeping costs significantly lower than traditional full-replication methods.
Walrus addresses this by acting as a specialized, programmable, and decentralized data layer that complements blockchains, allowing them to remain focused on computation rather than storage. #WALRUS $WAL @Walrus 🦭/acc 
