Walrus Security vs Cost Tradeoffs
@Walrus š¦/acc The real tradeoff in Walrus isnāt ācheap vs secure,ā itās how explicitly you want to pay for certainty. When you store a blob, youāre buying a time window measured in epochs, and Walrus anchors a Proof of Availability on Sui so āitās storedā becomes publicly checkable, not just a backend claim. Red Stuff keeps the security story from getting wildly expensive by targeting about a 4.5x replication factor while still handling node churn and recovery in a practical way. Costs still track encoded size and duration, so renewals are part of your design, not an afterthought. And the quilt is why this conversation is loud again: it makes āmany tiny filesā far less punishing by bundling hundreds into one unit.
