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When I first thought about integrating storage into Web3 apps, I expected it would be straight forward upload large files like videos or datasets and assume reliable, low cost access across decentralized networks. But the reality hits differently: high replication costs on chains like Sui, where full validator replication can exceed 100x overhead, make storing unstructured blobs inefficient and expensive for developers building real applications.
That's where @Walrus 🦭/acc changes the equation. As a decentralized storage protocol built on the Sui blockchain by Mysten Labs (now advancing under the Walrus Foundation), Walrus serves as a specialized foundational layer for Web3 development. It focuses on handling large binary objects blobs such as images, videos, AI datasets, NFTs, and even full websites with exceptional efficiency.
The key innovation lies in its architecture: instead of full replication, Walrus employs advanced erasure coding (via the Red Stuff algorithm) to split blobs into slivers distributed across a network of independent storage nodes. This achieves high data availability and robustness with a minimal replication factor of just 4x-5x, far lower than traditional blockchain storage. Sui acts as the secure coordination layer, managing metadata, payments, node incentives, and issuing on chain Proof of Availability certificates to verify blobs remain accessible.
What makes it truly foundational is programmability. Blobs and storage resources become native Sui objects in the Move language, allowing smart contracts to interact directly checking availability, extending storage periods, automating logic based on data presence, or even enabling composable data in dApps. This turns passive storage into an active, programmable component. Real use cases are emerging: projects like Talus AI use Walrus to let agents store, retrieve, and process onchain data scalably, while others leverage it for NFTs, game assets, or AI training datasets.
I slow down on how this bridges the gap between decentralization's ideals and practical developer needs. That low overhead yet resilient design sticks with me, showing a thoughtful evolution beyond brute force replication. I kept wondering if such efficiency could maintain true permissionless security at scale, but the horizontal scaling to thousands of nodes, combined with Byzantine fault tolerance, addresses that convincingly.
I'm left thinking about the broader impact: Walrus could make building data intensive Web3 apps as intuitive and cost effective as centralized alternatives, unlocking more innovation in AI, media, and beyond.
@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #walrus

I figured tracking network progress for a blockchain like Vanar Chain would be straightforward, mostly boiling down to flashy metrics like skyrocketing TVL or explosive transaction counts. But as I looked closer, it's the quieter, more subtle indicators things like steady integrations and roadmap executions that reveal a network quietly building momentum without the fanfare.
Vanar Chain, spearheaded by @Vanarchain , is an AI native Layer 1 that's EVM compatible and designed for practical, scalable applications. Its native token, VANRY, underpins staking, governance, and now, increasingly, utility in emerging features. One subtle sign of progress is the recent integration with Project Zero, which brings real time data streaming to Vanar's AI native infrastructure. This isn't a headline grabber, but it enhances on chain AI capabilities by providing continuous feeds for tools like Neutron, the semantic memory layer. Developers can now build apps that react to live data without constant off chain pulls, pointing to improved efficiency and reduced latency over time.
Another understated marker is the live rollout of AI integrations in early 2026, including operational on chain intelligence that allows for semantic querying and reasoning via layers like Kayon. Coupled with the upcoming Axon component for automated workflows, this shows Vanar methodically activating its modular stack. The shift to a tool subscription model for AI services is equally telling it's a move toward sustainable economics, where $vanry holders benefit from recurring on chain activity rather than one off hype. Partnerships, such as with Worldpay for agentic payments, and key hires like the new Head of Payments Infrastructure, further indicate institutional buy in, bridging traditional finance with AI driven crypto.
These elements aren't about overnight virality; they're about consistent infrastructure buildup. For instance, Neutron's early access program for on chain projects has quietly attracted builders focused on real world use, like tokenized assets with embedded AI compliance.
I slow down on how these integrations address common blockchain bottlenecks, like data silos, without overpromising. That friction sticks with me because it underscores Vanar's pragmatic approach in a space full of vaporware. I kept wondering if these low key advancements would compound into broader adoption, especially as AI becomes integral to Web3. I'm left thinking about how $VANRY quiet utility growth could signal long term network health, rewarding patient participants.
In essence, Vanar's progress shines through these subtle cues, fostering a resilient ecosystem.
@Vanarchain $VANRY #vanar

I figured sponsoring transaction fees in blockchain networks would be a clunky add on, something tacked onto existing systems with extra layers of complexity and potential points of failure. But diving into @Plasma approach changed that view entirely it's elegantly integrated right into the protocol, making stablecoin transfers feel almost effortless.
At its core, Plasma is a Layer 1 blockchain designed with a focus on stablecoin infrastructure, where the native token powers the network for staking, governance, and general fees. What sets it apart, though, is the Paymaster model, a protocol maintained smart contract that handles sponsored transaction fees, particularly for USDT (USD₮) operations. This isn't just a gimmick; it's a deliberate architectural choice to reduce friction in everyday crypto payments.
Let's break it down technically. In traditional EVM compatible chains, users must hold the native token (like ETH on Ethereum) to pay gas fees for any transaction. Plasma flips this for specific cases by deploying a built in Paymaster contract. This contract acts as a sponsor, covering the gas costs for eligible transactions primarily transfers and approvals on the USDT contract. When a user initiates a USDT transfer, the Paymaster steps in during the transaction validation process. It verifies eligibility (e.g., ensuring it's a standard transfer or approve call on the approved stablecoin contract), then subsidizes the gas from a dedicated reserve pool.
This reserve isn't infinite; it's funded through network mechanisms, including a portion of block rewards or fees from non sponsored transactions. The Paymaster uses account abstraction principles, similar to ERC-4337 on Ethereum, where the sponsor can define rules for what gets covered. In Plasma's case, the rules are hardcoded at the protocol level for consistency and security. Users don't need to interact with it directly the wallet or dApp abstracts it away, so sending USDT feels like a zero fee experience without holding XPL.
I slow down on the eligibility checks, though. That friction sticks with me because it ensures the system isn't abused only USDT related ops qualify, preventing spam or unrelated exploits. For broader transactions, like DeFi interactions or NFT mints, users still pay in XPL or, in some extended cases, directly in the transferred asset via Paymaster extensions. This hybrid keeps the network sustainable while prioritizing stablecoin utility.
Technically, the Paymaster integrates with Plasma's consensus engine, which is a proof of stake variant optimized for high throughput. Validators process sponsored txs without altering the block's fee structure; the sponsorship is settled off chain from the user's perspective but on chain via the contract's balance. This reduces onboarding barriers for merchants or remittance users, who can transact in stablecoins without crypto volatility exposure.
I kept wondering if this model scales under heavy load does the reserve deplete too fast? From what I've seen, Plasma's design includes dynamic adjustments, like fee multipliers during congestion, to maintain the pool. It also encourages xpl staking, where stakers indirectly support the ecosystem by securing the chain and earning rewards that could replenish sponsorship funds.
I'm left thinking about how this could evolve. In a world of fragmented blockchains, Plasma's Paymaster offers a blueprint for user.centric fee models, potentially inspiring cross chain adaptations. It's not revolutionary hype; it's practical engineering solving real pain points in crypto adoption.
For developers building on Plasma, exploring the Paymaster docs is a mustit's open source and verifiable on their GitHub. If you're into stablecoin tech, this is worth a deep dive.
@Plasma $XPL #Plasma

When I first started looking closely at Dusk, what stood out wasn’t the usual promises of speed or scale, but something quieter: how people actually behave when their assets carry real personal stakes. Everyone talks about Dusk as privacy for regulated finance, yet the more interesting thread is in everyday choices players in games who hesitate to expose their rare items, collectors guarding portfolios, or anyone who values discretion over display.
The core mechanics feel deliberate in this light. Zero knowledge proofs, woven natively through the Phoenix model, let confidential assets stay hidden by default amounts, ownership details shielded while still allowing selective auditability when rules demand it. Then there’s the Rusk VM for confidential smart contracts, enabling logic that executes privately without leaking strategy or holdings. And the compliance layer, like Citadel’s privacy preserving identity, bridges the gap so regulated environments don’t force full exposure.
These address real frictions: the guarded instinct in gaming where showing off an asset invites targeting or devaluation, or in broader ownership where repeated small actions like trading in game items build trust only when privacy is reliable, not performative. Institutions pause not over tech, but over unnecessary visibility that disrupts fair play or strategy.
Of course, there’s a tradeoff deliberate constraints on maximal openness mean it’s not the wildest form of decentralization, and rollouts stay measured to preserve that balance.
Stepping back, if this succeeds, most users won’t even notice the blockchain. It fades into the background like reliable infrastructure quiet, present, forgotten until needed.
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk

Balancing the privacy of user data and regulations is no small task in the fast moving world of blockchain, the timing of which regulatory requirements are important. The financial privacy is a key to the adoption of the frameworks such as the MiCA of the EU, which require transparency to reduce risks, but institutional investors cannot give up financial privacy. This is the point at which @Dusk gains its edge, developing a network which entrenches privacy tools that can handle real life regulatory needs without dealing any significant blow to performance.
Dusk Network layer-1 architecture, which was developed since 2018, is a regulated finance modular infrastructure. Its homomorphic encryption, and zero-knowledge proofs also enable transactions to remain secret and create verifiable proofs to be audited. It is not an afterthought, but it is at the heart of the protocol, which allows developers to develop applications that can comply with a strict timeline to roll out compliance. As an example, within the audit requirements of MiCA, the system of Dusk enables the institutions to demonstrate the integrity of transactions without disclosing any information, reducing manual reporting to slow down projects.
This is the case with the Hedger protocol. Live also supports the Hedger Alpha version, which does private computations on the DuskEVM, an EVM compatible layer, supporting regular Solidity contracts. Familiar code can be deployed by developers, on the base layer that is Dusk, making integration easier to integrating with compliant DeFi. This modularity is used to solve time constraints as one can make changes in response to changing regs quickly such as, in the case of new AML standards, having proof mechanisms updated without necessarily having to rewrite the entire stack.
Given practical application in the real world: NPEX is a licensed Dutch exchange and with which DUSK is building DuskTrade. In 2026, this platform will process more than EUR300 million tokenized securities to provide a compliant venue to RWAs. The waitlist was launched in January, where organizations that require privacy in trades were interested in joining but with compliance to the MTF, brokerage, and ECSP licenses. These partnerships indicate that Dusk can transform regulatory challenges into operational opportunities, cutting down the duration between idea and compliant operations.
In the financial aspect, network security is supported by staking and fees on to provide sustainable operations of these privacy oriented tools. It is also connected to the ecosystem but does not take over the story, which helps promote long term functionality in controlled settings.
This is supported by the recent milestones. In January 2026, a significant upgrade to the DuskEVM was the launch of the DuskEVM mainnet, which will improve the accessibility of developers as global regulations become stricter. In the future, roadmap ingredients such as Hedger refinements will enable auditable privacy to more financial instruments.
In the perspective of the observer, the strategy of the organization under scrutiny, DUSK, is based on the feeling of the practical experience gained in the requirements of traditional finance to discreet and still accountable transactions. During a time when privacy accidents can crash efforts, the framework suggested by Dusk is an opportune Web3 infrastructure paradigm, with auditability as a priority to inspire trust. Dusk is not a mere tag; it is an indication of intelligent development in obedient blockchain technology.
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk

The Walrus Protocol is unique in the decentralized storage field because it was well designed and efficient in terms of its approach to balancing efficiency, security, and scalability. The system at its simplest is based on a system of storage nodes which do the actual data persistence. These nodes are the building blocks of Walrus as they provide a stable way of storing large binary objects, or blobs, in a distributed installation.
Walrus storage nodes are autonomous nodes. Both of them have to handle certain fragments of data at specific points in time known as storage epochs. The storage epoch can take between two weeks on the mainnet and this gives it a fixed time frame in which it can operate.

The process starts with erasure coding when a user wishes to store a blob. It is a method of dividing data into smaller sections known as slivers. Erasure coding introduces redundancy, and thus the system can restore the original blob even in case some slivers are lost or not available.
These slivers are further scattered over the shards. Walrus is configured with a fixed number of logical shards of approximately 1000 in the existing configuration. The shards are assigned to storage nodes out of coordination by the Sui blockchain, the control plane of the whole protocol.
In this case, the Sui blockchain is essential. It processes metadata, payment, and shard assignment. Storage nodes constantly check blockchain events to be aware of the shards they are in charge of and to keep up with the network.
This division allows there to be no single node that contains the whole blob which makes it more secure and fault tolerant. Walrus is designed to have a tolerance of up to one third of the bad or malicious nodes by assuming that more than two thirds of the shards are operated by honest nodes.
Storage nodes do not only store data, they also offer signatures that data slivers have been received. These signatures are gathered and accumulated to a certificate which has to be recorded to the Sui blockchain and used as evidence of storage.
Going upwards along the storage layer, the next layer is the aggregation layers. Aggregators are optional nodes of the Walrus architecture, although they also bring a great deal of usability value.
The primary task of an aggregator is to reassemble the complete blob using the slivers transmitted to it. On request of data, the aggregator makes a query to the storage node required thus retrieving the slivers and reassembling them into the original form.
This reconstruction is on demand and the aggregators will be able to support the blob on a regular web protocol such as HTTP. This renders Walrus more usable in applications that are not closely tied to blockchain technology.
Aggregators can have caches overlaid upon them which serve as content delivery networks. To minimize latency and to alleviate storage node pressure on popular data they store reconstructed blobs on a temporary basis.
The publishers also belong to this ecosystem of aggregation. They are optional aids which facilitate the first upload. Through a web interface, a publisher can send a blob, encode the same, divide the slivers to the storage nodes, and manage the on chain certification.
The only thing that connects all this is the fact that the system is permissionless. Any person or organization can operate a storage node, aggregator, or publisher, provided he/she adheres to the protocol provisions imposed by the Sui blockchain.
Security is integrated on all levels. As an example, the outputs of aggregators may be checked by users comparing them with the blob ID, or independently rebuilt in case necessary.
Its efficiency is due to the innovations such as the RedStuff that is a custom two dimensional erasure coding scheme of Walrus. It has high durability and has low replication factor of about 4.5 times that is more efficient compared to traditional methods.
This implies that storage nodes do not incur unnecessary redundancy and costs are kept low by users.
As a practical arrangement, this layout facilitates practical applications, such as the storage of large media files in Sui as part of the decentralized apps.
The seamlessly flowing nodes to aggregators allow developers that write on Walrus to concentrate on their applications without the complexity of underlying storage.
This system has been structured horizontally (up to thousands of nodes) by walrusprotocol to be able to handle increasing demands.
The $WAL token is a part of this economy, where it can be paid and rewarded in the network.
On the whole, the learning of Walrus as relating storage nodes to aggregation layers provides an insight of a protocol, that is not merely theoretical but it is designed practically to suit decentralized data requirements.
@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #walrus

Stablecoins have now turned into a vital part of digital finance, used as stable means of cross-border payment, remittance, settlement of merchants and institutional transfers. As the overall supply of the stablecoins has reached the level of dozens of billions of values and the volume of transactions and payments reaches trillions each month, the need in efficient and scalable infrastructure has become much stronger. General purpose blockchains Traditional blockchains that are usually designed in a general purpose way may create such problems as variable fees, slower confirmations, and users having to handle native tokens to manage gas. Plasma solves them by being a purpose built Layer 1 blockchain that is explicitly optimized to conduct the stablecoin business and facilitate settlements transparently and invisibly in the background.
Plasma is built to support high performance payments of stablecoins and provides more than 1,000 transactions per second and block times of less than one second. This performance is achieved through its own PlasmaBFT consensus mechanism adaptation, an implementation of Fast HotStuff that provides fast finality necessary in financial flows at real time. The network is fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing developers to move on to the network without altering their smart contracts. This interoperability enables the incorporation of payment-oriented applications, in which the transfer of stablecoins may operate as a stable server.
The most important innovation is that it supports transfers of 0 fees on the protocol level. Using a special paymaster system,the gas payments of sending USDT (a stablecoin of Tether) are sponsored, such that end users can make transactions without holding or paying in the underlying token. Issuers of stablecoins, foundations or developers of apps pay these fees out of advanceallowances, and are regulated to avoid abuse. This eliminates a significant point of friction: users do not have to purchase native tokens with the purpose of sending stable value anymore. In theory, this allows situations such as instant remittances to family members, payment to merchants or automated DeFi settlements, where the blockchain is quietly moving money around the background, just like how a regular payment rail is quietly moving money around the background.
The design is carried over to flexibility on gas payments. In addition to zero fee USDT, Plasma is capable of supporting custom gas tokens, meaning that stablecoins or other assets may be charged a fee when necessary. This also eases the obstacles to non crypto native applications and users. The network would be secured along with institutional grade security options such as plans of secrecy transactions that would add to privacy of making sensitive transfers, ensuring that settlements are secure and discrete.
The architecture of plasma makes it a neutral settlement layer of the increasingly stablecoin ecosystem. It integrates fragmented activity in retail, institutional, and decentralized finance situations by placing stablecoin native features at the protocol level. The native token $XPL has network security features by being proof of stake validated, governed, and rewarded, and helps in long-term sustainability without user interaction of simple transfers.
So Plasma allows the settlements of stablecoins to work effectively and transparently, without distracting users with the implementation process. This strategy favors the wider use of digital dollars in the international finance. For further details follow on twitter at .
@Plasma $XPL #Plasma

when I thought about the constraints of traditional blockchain implemented as AI applications, and how a stateless architecture (as many Layer 1 networks use) can make intelligent systems impossible to scale. In stateless designs a transaction history is reconstructed into state each time, and is good at simple ledgers but expensive at AI, where persistent memory is needed to reason over and learn about data. Vanar Chain will solve this issue by integrating native memory mechanisms, which are more appropriate to AI at scale.
Vanar Chain is an AI native, EVM compatible Layer 1 blockchain. Stateless blockchains use ephemeral or off chain storage of data, which creates more computation overhead, and increases the cost of recreating a state, and exposes it to external dependencies such as IPFS. In the case of AI agents with a necessity to have context of past interactions (e.g. review of transaction history or legal records), that leads to inefficiency and possible loss of data, restricting complexity applications in terms of scalability.
The stateless design cost is especially notable in the AI at scale. Rebuilding state on each query is costly, which decreases performance and increases gas bills. This may render operations in high-volume applications such as PayFi or tokenized real-world assets impractical since AI systems must access and recalculate data many times. External storage introduces the risks of centralization, where the availability of the data is subject to the third party providers, and this will compromise the decentralization. Vanar Chain addresses such problems using the five layer stack, in which memory is constructed upwards and downwards to accommodate persistent knowledge on the chain.
The semantic memory is based upon the Neutron layer. It algorithmically and heuristically compresses raw files, documents, or records into condensed programmable objects called Seeds. These Seeds store vital meaning, context and relationships and are stored directly in the Vanar Chain blockchain. This is unlike stateless models which do not guarantee data is native, verifiable or can always be accessed without overhead of reconstruction. In AI at scale, Seeds allow agents to be session wise history aware, which eases computation and is more efficient.
The reasoning layer, named Kayon, is using this memory to execute a contextual analysis over the Seeds in real time. These enable scalable AI services, e.g. automated compliance checks in RWAs or conditional validations in PayFi, both on chain. It makes the integration cost effective because data becomes persistent and queryable without incurring the high costs of rebuilding without a state. More recent changes, such as optimization of the V23 protocol, have improved it further to reduce latency and resource consumption, allowing it to be used in larger scale AI applications.
These memory and reasoning processes are facilitated by . It pays gas charges on Seed creation and storage, inquiries and logic, basing the utility of the token on real AI load requests. With the size of AI applications, the cost of vanry diminishes in the same proportion, which forms a sustainable economic model. Staking vanry also provides the network with a reputation enhanced consensus, which is reliable when at scale.
On Neutron and Kayon, Vanar gives extensive technical documentation on the way the memory layer is used to circumvent stateless constraints. The operation of the platform is carbon neutral, which is made possible through the use of renewable energy and contributes to its scalability because the operation complies with regulations and environmental conditions.
Vanar Chain's focus on built in memory shows why it is important to AI at scale: it eliminates the hidden costs of stateless design, and allows more efficient and decentralized intelligent systems to be built. This strategy is sustainable to increase Web3 AI applications.
@Vanarchain $VANRY #vanar

A decentralized storage system is Walrus Protocol, created by Mysten Labs to store data in Sui blockchain. It offers a specialized layer of storing and handling huge unstructured information (blobs). These blobs contain images, videos, weights of AI models, datasets, media files and others that cannot fit effectively on conventional blockchain state. The architecture is designed in a way that it makes the storage native to blockchain workflows and that enables data to be as verifiable, programmable, and composable as onchain assets.
The scheme starts with client side encoding based on RedStuff which is a two dimensional erasure coding algorithm. Blobs are broken down into slivers that are spread across the network of self contained storage nodes. The two dimensional method generates redundancy in the primary and secondary dimensions allowing reconstruction with a subset of slivers even in the case of several nodes being offline or unresponsive. Its effective factor of replication is about 4x-5x which combines cost-efficiency and good fault tolerance.
Sui blockchain is Walrus control plane. Metadata, ownership and all availability proofs are represented as Sui objects in the Move language. Upon uploading a blob, the client encodes the blob locally and submits slivers to the storage committee to which it is allocated. A Proof of Availability certificate is minted on Sui once there is a quorum of nodes confirming that they have received and stored it. This certificate is an object that is stored on the chain and it only verifies that the blob is present in storage and can be accessed by any party that wishes to verify the integrity without necessarily accessing the actual information.
Storage charges are paid in advance in $WAL over a fixed period of time. The fees are fixed and subsequently dispensed out over epochs to storage nodes as per the proven performance. Nodes post stake tokens of WAL to become members of committees, and the amount of the stake is what defines the number of slivers that the node can serve. Increased stake facilitates increased work and increased possible rewards. Delegation enables the operators to delegate to those not operating infrastructure and receive rewards according to their stock contribution.

The Sui object model renders blobs to be completely programmable. Every blob is modeled as a Sui object which can be owned, transferred, increased in length, modified or deleted by smart contracts. This allows managing data inside the blockchain where Move code allows applications to communicate with stored information. As a case in point, NFT contracts may be made to refer to blob certificates containing media, as well as extend storage on demand or transfer ownership and the token.
Asynchronous challenge protocols ensure constant correctness. Tests are randomly made of whether nodes possess correct slivers. The failures lead to less epoch rewards or dropping of staked $WAL, to have reliable nodes during the storage period. Sui epoch transitions reassign committees, according to stake and performance, without disrupting availability.
Additional protocols increase functionality. Seal supports decentralized encryption and access control, with the policy of decryption being on-chain, and blobs encrypted. Nautilus facilitates verifiable off-chain computation associated with data stored such that workflows such as secure indexing or processing can be achieved without revealing content.
The economy is driven by the use of the token, the WAL. Storage costs are paid in the form of WAL, nodes can use their stakes of WAL to participate in the committee, and rewards are paid according to the uptime and challenges won. This forms a vicious cycle of reliability and growth being financed by network usage.
Walrus has been designed to manage data on the blockchain. It uses efficient erasure coding, on chain coordination via Sui, programmable object ownership, and usagebased incentives to build a framework that embraces the concepts of decentralization and composability to storage. This enables apps that need consistent and verifiable information including NFT ecosystems, AI data, blockchain archives, and dynamic content within decentralized apps.
@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #walrus