Decentralized storage often struggles to balance security and cost, but @Walrus 🦭/acc has found a smart solution through innovation. As the backbone of the Sui ecosystem, it doesn’t rely on traditional replicated storage. Instead, it uses Red Stuff’s two-dimensional erasure coding, which lowers data recovery costs significantly while keeping a 4–5 times replication factor. This ensures high availability, allowing complete recovery even if two-thirds of nodes fail.
What stands out is its adaptability. Large files cost only $50 per TB per year—about a quarter of Filecoin and 1/70th of Arweave. Small files are handled efficiently through the Quilt function, which packages 660 files together, cutting costs drastically while still allowing access to individual files. This size-agnostic design makes it ideal for 4K videos, AI datasets, and NFT metadata.
Since its mainnet launch in 2025, @Walrus 🦭/acc has stored over 800 TB of data and 14 million blobs, attracting projects like CUDIS and Talus AI, and gaining institutional attention, including a dedicated trust from Grayscale. With its deflationary token model and Sui’s programmable features, data can not only be stored securely but also generate value through smart contracts for copyright, revenue sharing, and permission management.
In the era of Web3, @Walrus 🦭/acc is more than a storage solution—it’s a platform that gives data real value. By bridging decentralization and commercialization, it turns the idea that “data belongs to users and generates revenue for users” into reality, showing huge potential for the future.
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