Walrus quietly redefines how applications think about data lifetime. Storage isn’t permanent by default — it’s time-bound and prepaid. Builders choose exactly how long data should live. $WAL is locked upfront, and rewards flow only while nodes continue to serve that data.
The result is honest pricing. No incentive to dump junk data, no endless storage bloat. Storage becomes intentional infrastructure you design and manage — not a black hole of recurring costs.
