Data is the quiet part of Web3 that people rarely talk about until it goes missing. A transaction can succeed in seconds, but the files it points to need to survive for years. Walrus Protocol is built around that slower responsibility.
Instead of forcing large files onto a blockchain, Walrus spreads data across many independent nodes and uses encoding to make sure it can be rebuilt even when some pieces disappear. It is practical, not magical. There are risks, of course. Networks can face outages, incentives can drift, and adoption takes time. Still, the idea is simple and steady: data should outlast the moment it was created.
