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Who is responsible for data once a protocol is live and no one is watching anymore? Most decentralized systems quietly rely on social coordination to keep things alive. Walrus assumes that coordination will fail and designs for that reality.
In many storage networks, uptime depends on optimism. Nodes behave because the market is hot or rewards are temporarily attractive. Walrus removes that fragility by making repairs unavoidable. When fragments disappear, the system actively incentivizes reconstruction, not passive hope. WAL aligns rewards with recovery, not just storage capacity.
This matters most during stress. Chain congestion, node churn, regional outages, or simple operator fatigue are not edge cases. They are normal over time. Walrus treats failure as expected behavior and builds mechanisms that activate precisely when things break.
For applications that depend on history, this changes everything. AI agents retaining memory, DAOs preserving governance context, or protocols anchoring off execution data cannot rely on best effort persistence. Walrus offers continuity without supervision.
Decentralized infrastructure earns trust only when it keeps working after incentives weaken. Walrus is designed for that moment, not the launch window.
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