Walrus is just "another storage token," which makes it uninteresting. It's intriguing because it focuses on the area of cryptocurrency where data resides, which determines whether apps can truly scale. Most onchain products break the instant they need real files photos, game assets, AI datasets, documents so they discreetly fall back to centralized servers. That is the issue with retention. Users don’t depart because the tech is “too advanced.” The experience seems shaky and erratic, so they depart.
Because Walrus on Sui is designed for blob storage, it can store a lot of data at a low cost without putting everything on the chain. The basic notion is erasure coding: data gets split into fragments, distributed across multiple nodes, and can still be recovered even if some nodes go offline. For apps that must store large amounts of content without relying on a single supplier, censorship-resistance and reliability actually look like that.
Only when consumption is genuine and consistent can WAL gain value. I'm keeping an eye on the rise of paid storage, active apps that include Walrus, retrieval dependability, and whether demand endures until the hype cycle passes. If those figures grow, WAL ceases being “just a token” and starts appearing like the incentive layer driving a real decentralized data market. @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL
