@Walrus 🦭/acc Walrus relies fundamentally on Sui blockchain for coordination, economics, and trust anchoring across its storage network. Smart contracts manage Walrus epochs, validating storage node commitments and tracking fragment distributions across the network. Nodes stake Sui tokens that face slashing penalties if availability proofs fail or data becomes unrecoverable. Walrus storage payments flow through on-chain transactions that compensate nodes proportionally for capacity pledged during epochs. The contracts handle encoding parameter governance, dispute resolution when nodes disagree about shard validity, and availability sampling that verifies honest storage behavior. This tight integration gives Walrus operations the finality guarantees and transaction ordering of Sui consensus without centralizing storage coordination or requiring trusted intermediaries between clients and nodes.

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