My First $WAL Trade: Riding the Wave of Programmable Storage
I just closed my trade with WALtoday. This was a deal for me. The experience really opened my eyes to how the market sees decentralized storage now in early 2026. I was looking at my $WALUSDT Perpetual position. I decided to take a risk and go long with a lot of leverage 75 times to be exact. I got in at, around $0.1440. It was a trade but I learned a lot from it. I got to see how volatile WAL is and how much people are buying and selling it on the Binance exchange.
What really got my attention about this trade was not the chart but what Walrus Protocol is doing for the Sui ecosystem. Walrus Protocol is different from storage projects because those projects just store data but Walrus Protocol makes the data programmable. I saw that the price of Walrus Protocol was staying around $0.142 to $0.146 this week. I noticed that a strong support level was forming for Walrus Protocol. The technology that Walrus Protocol uses called Red stuff era sure coding is very good because it helps Walrus Protocol keep working even if something goes wrong. It does not use as much overhead, as Filecoin. I think this is why serious traders who build infrastructure are starting to pay attention to Walrus Protocol.
Trading a newer asset like WAL with leverage requires discipline. I have to keep an eye on the funding rates and the Sui networks overall health because the Sui network $WAL are deeply interconnected. My profit from $WAL was a +0.33 USDT on this specific micro-scalp of $WAL .
The real win, for me was testing the execution speed of $WAL . Seeing how WAL reacts to intraday volume spikes of WAL.
For anyone looking to dive into the campaign, I recommend starting small. Understand the utility—how WAL is used for storage payments and node staking—before jumping into the deep end of futures. This is definitely a project I’ll be keeping on my daily watchlist. #walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc
Why Walrus Protocol ($WAL) isn't just another storage project?
I have been watching the decentralized storage space for years. From the days of Filecoin to the "permablocking" of Arweave we have always been promised a world where our data is not owned by three giant tech companies. But let us be honest decentralized storage has felt slow and expensive for the creator and it has also felt a bit clunky. The decentralized storage space is supposed to be about giving people control over their data and that is what decentralized storage, like Filecoin and Arweave are trying to do. Then comes the Walrus Protocol, which is also known as $WAL . If you think this is Google Drive on a blockchain you are missing the bigger picture. After I looked into the details of the Walrus CreatorPad campaign and the technology behind Walrus I realized that Walrus is solving one problem that other projects like Walrus could not solve: the problem of programmability. Walrus is really making a difference, with programmability. The "Red Stuff" Factor: This is why the Red Stuff is smarter it is not just because it is bigger. The Red Stuff has some things, about it. People think the Red Stuff is only good because it is big. That is not true. The Red Stuff is actually very smart. Most storage projects work by making copies. If you want to save a file the network will make ten copies of that file. Put those copies on different computers. This way of doing things works,. It is really wasteful and it is also very slow. The storage projects that make copies of files are not very good at saving space or time. Storage projects, like these make a lot of copies of files. Walrus uses something called Red Stuff. This is a way to keep files safe. It is a 2D erasure coding algorithm. The Red Stuff breaks your file into pieces called slivers. Then it spreads these slivers out. The math behind the Red Stuff is really good. Because of this math the network only needs to make about four or five copies of the file to be completely secure. This is a lot better than some systems that need to make fifty or one hundred copies of the file to be secure. The Red Stuff makes the network very safe, with a few copies of the file. For us as traders and creators this is important because when things are efficient it means we pay fees. When I look at $WAL I do not just see a storage token I see the system that allows us to have cheap storage, for big chunks of data, which people call "blobs". Integrating with Sui: The Secret Sauce I really like Walrus because it does not try to do everything by itself. Walrus uses the Sui Blockchain to help it work with things. This is where people come into my plan, for Walrus. A lot of people think of storage as a place to put things. I think of Walrus as a library that is always changing and growing. Because Sui is what it is built on every file of yours which is called a "blob" is really an object that's on the blockchain. This means that smart contracts are able to talk to your Sui data. The thing, about Sui is that it makes your files or "blobs" into objects that the smart contracts can interact with. I am looking for a cool NFT that can change how it looks depending on the weather outside. This NFT should be able to get the weather information and then change its appearance to match the weather. I think it would be amazing to have an NFT, like this that can change its appearance based on weather data.I am looking for an intelligence model that can update its own settings as it learns new things and I do not want it to be too expensive I want an artificial intelligence model that does this without costing a lot of money.I want a website that loads as fast as a regular website. I mean a website that is really fast, like a normal website you know a decentralized website that does not take forever to load. This is what Programmable Storage looks like in 2026. Programmable Storage is not just sitting there it is actually doing something. Programmable Storage is working. My Personal Take on the $WAL Economy Let us talk about the token. The $WAL token is not just, for paying rent. The $WAL token is the heartbeat of the network. Nodes have to use the $WAL token to prove they are actually holding your data. If the nodes mess up they get slashed. The $WAL token is really important for the network to work properly. I am a creator on Binance Square. I think the rewards on CreatorPad are really good. I see a chance for Smart Engagement to make a difference. The market is changing and people are not just looking for coins that're popular they are looking for coins that can actually do something useful. Walrus is an example of this because it is focused on Real World Utility, which is what people will be looking for in 2026. Walrus is a fit, for this new way of thinking. I have started moving some of my project archives onto Walrus Testnet and now Walrus Mainnet just to see the speed. The latency is almost non-existent. For the time I do not feel like I am sacrificing performance just to be on a decentralized system, like Walrus. Walrus is not another storage project. It looks at data as something that is always changing, not something that stays the same. The Walrus project is the foundation, for the generation of Artificial Intelligence and Gaming DApps. We will all be using these Artificial Intelligence and Gaming DApps on our Binance Wallets by the end of the year. The Walrus project is really important for this to happen. Final Thoughts for my Square Community If you are a creator, like me do not just tell people to buy the Red Stuff token. Explain why it is important. * Why do we need Red Stuff? We need Red Stuff because it helps us be more efficient. * Why Sui? (Speed and Programmability) * Why now? (The explosion of AI data needs) The time of storing things is, behind us. Now we are moving into a time of smart information and $WAL is the one taking the lead in this area of smart information. What do you think about this? Are you holding Walmart stock for the technology or the business of trading? Let us discuss this in the comments. I will be looking for that Smart Engagement to boost our Walmart scores. @Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus
Vývoj Walrusu (WAL) do roku 2026: Od úložiště ke kořenu ekonomiky umělé inteligence
Pokud jste sledovali oblast dezentralizovaného úložiště, víte, že Walrus, který je také známý jako WAL, není jen dalším názvem v příběhu DePIN nebo dezentralizované fyzické infrastruktury. Tento Walrus pochází od lidí z Mysten Labs, kteří jsou také tvůrci blockchainu Sui. Lidé, kteří vytvořili Walrus, nechtěli, aby byl jako Dropbox používající blockchain. Walrus měl být něčím jiným. Lidé z Mysten Labs jsou velmi zkušení a znají, co dělají, takže Walrus není jen dalším projektem v oblasti dezentralizovaného úložiště nebo v příběhu DePIN nebo v příběhu dezentralizované fyzické infrastruktury. Je to skutečně projekt Walrus.