Walrus has been making steady progress lately and it’s starting to show in how the project is shaping up.
The focus right now is clearly on making sure the infrastructure can support real world usage. Recent development has gone into improving how data is stored accessed and validated across the network so performance stays fast and reliable as demand grows. This is especially important for use cases like gaming AI workloads and onchain content where consistency really matters. The goal feels very practical which is to make decentralized storage usable at scale rather than experimental.
The network itself is also getting stronger. Node and validator participation continues to improve which helps with decentralization and long term reliability. A healthier backbone gives builders confidence that applications built on top of the network can actually scale. At the same time the developer experience has been getting smoother making it easier to integrate storage into real products without unnecessary friction.
$WAL plays a central role in securing the network and rewarding those who provide storage and resources so growth in usage directly feeds back into the token.