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The Privacy + Storage Flywheel That's Quietly Heating Up

Man, 2026 is shaping up to be the year privacy finally stops being a buzzword and starts being infrastructure. Sui's rolling out native private transactions this year, and right in the middle of it sits Walrus—handling the heavy lifting for encrypted blobs that stay verifiable but hidden.

I’ve been tracking this since late last year: over 1B $WAL already staked (deflationary pressure building from usage burns), integrations with NFT giants like Pudgy Penguins for real data storage, and now positioning as the go-to layer for "secrets as a service" alongside Seal. It's not flashy memes; it's the boring-but-profitable stuff—programmable storage that devs can actually scale without praying to centralized clouds.

My move? I added more during the late-December dip around $0.11–0.12. Now sitting at ~$0.14–0.15 with solid volume spikes, and the Sui stack narrative (Walrus + Seal + Nautilus) keeps getting shouted out by a16z types. If private DeFi, AI datasets, and media on-chain explode this year, $WAL demand won't be optional.

This isn't hype—it's the convergence of real utility + tokenomics + ecosystem tailwinds. Who's stacking infrastructure plays for the long haul? Drop your thoughts.