Kri

1. Never believe anyone's price predictions.
2. Don't "diversify" into other cryptos; none of them are actually decentralized, everything except bitcoin is a shitcoin (yes, really), and it's all gambling. The point of bitcoin is not gambling, but to end modern day slavery (fiat currency).
3. When everyone you know is talking about bitcoin, you're at the top of a bull market. You'll likely be too exuberant to realize it though. It will be obvious in hindsight.
4. Don't "trade some altcoins on the side to get more bitcoin". You are not that smart, and the overwhelming probability is that you will get wrecked.
5. DCA into bitcoin. Ignore your emotions. Don't try to time the market. Just stack what you can every paycheck.
6. Don't be too excited about bitcoin; people will feel like you're scamming them even though you're just trying help.
7. Go to meetups & conferences. Don't be isolated. Bitcoiners are generally very awesome people.
8. When people ask you about how to buy bitcoin, send them to a BITCOIN-ONLY company. Example for why: My cousin bought bitcoin (on Coinbase) during the bull market, then sold it for shiba on the same platform and now she pretty much lost everything. Bitcoin-only companies are the safest option to keep newbies from doing newbie things.
9. Be on #bitcoin    twitter and nostr. Obviously if you're reading this, you're already here...but I didn't get on twitter until 2020 and can tell you that it's a lot less lonely hodling bitcoin when you see a bunch of other people on this platform experiencing the same things you are.
10. Be skeptical of influencers. Even me (I'm not a huge account, but still). Some are good, some are bad. Even if they have good intentions, their judgement can be clouded by bad incentives.
11. Stop trying to convince everyone you know that bitcoin will make everything better (even though it will). Instead, be a good resource for the people who eventually reach out to you about it. Be known as "the bitcoin guy" and let people come to you when they're ready. Have good content prepared for them to read/watch when they do.
That is all. It's been a great ride so far and I'm happy to know you guys.
#bitcoin #dyor #crypto2023

#walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL
Onchain storage uses a fundamentally different pricing structure and business model than traditional smart contract platforms, which focus primarily on executing transactions. While fixed costs constitute a large share of overall operator costs for validators in high-throughput blockchains, variable costs make up a substantial portion of expenses in storage infrastructure. Increasing the amount of data stored—for example, going from storing one petabyte to two—requires increasing storage capacity, often by a sizable multiple, because data must be sharded and distributed across many machines to offer the required security and resilience guarantees.
Thus, onchain storage presents a unique opportunity to design an incentives and tokenomics implementation that leverages these distinctive features of storage and unleashes its full potential.
Walrus’ pricing and business model are based on the fact that the system stores approximately five times the amount of raw data that the user wants to store; this ratio is at the frontier of replication efficiency for a decentralized platform. That storage, in turn, is fundamentally an intertemporal service. Users may pay for an extended period of storage upfront, but the fees must be delivered across time to properly secure the data, differing from smart contract platforms where transaction execution happens immediately and all at once.
In particular, in Walrus, fees are charged at the outset and are linear in the amount of data being stored and the number of epochs through which the data will be stored. Walrus’ pricing model then distributes these funds across time, with the exact flow of funds governed by four canonical rules:
A Walrus user pays:User_Price = Storage_Price * (1 - Subsidy_Rate)A node’s revenue from commissions equals:Node_Revenue = Storage_Price (1 + Subsidy_Rate) CommissionA staker’s revenue net of commissions equals:Staker_Revenue = Storage_Price (1 + Subsidy_Rate) (1 - Commission)Subsidies pay the delta between system revenue and user payment:Subsidy_Payment = Storage_Price 2 Subsidy_Rate
Walrus’ tokenomics include a 10% allocation earmarked for increasing adoption and growth of the network during its early phases. Part of these WAL tokens will be distributed as subsidies, ensuring that Walrus users can use the protocol at a fraction of its market price, while also guaranteeing that storage operators make enough revenue to cover their fixed costs. As the protocol matures and expands its user base, storage operators will work in parallel to reduce their fixed costs per data unit stored and seek efficiencies in their operations. In addition, technological advancements in storage hardware, such as future decreases in the price of HDD and SSD units, together with competition across manufacturers, will further trickle down into cheaper onchain storage prices.
In the long run, this setup ensures that Walrus can be widely adopted and financially sustainable even once subsidies are phased out.
Built for long-term economic viability
Walrus’ design results in stake rewards starting at a very low rate but scaling into more attractive rates as the network grows. While low stake rewards initially might sound unattractive, the flip side is that Walrus will have high stake rewards in the long run, all while ensuring that operations remain sustainable. Walrus participants sacrifice some short-term gains for long-term network success.
To best understand this trade-off, consider the following:
In a simplified world, storage operator capacity has a roughly one-to-one relationship with the amount of data stored, meaning storage operator costs increase linearly with data stored.
Stakers, on the other hand, have no costs, and only care about the amount of data held in storage to the extent that storage payments influence the amount of stake rewards they receive.
Hence, as Walrus usage increases and storage requirements increase, operators receive proportionally more revenue in order to offset their additional costs. For stakers, in contrast, the amount of stake rewards received increases without an equal increase in costs, such that the rewards they can expect to obtain over time on their stake increases considerably as Walrus grows.

This chart illustrates how Walrus’ economics model is successful in the medium and long-term as Walrus obtains deeper product market fit and meaningful adoption.
Capital efficiencies at scale
Walrus’ incentives model features an additional feedback mechanism by which user costs go down over time as product usage accelerates.
Recall, in the previous example, stakers can expect to receive a very high rate of rewards when Walrus is widely adopted. In practice, however, market forces would ensure that some of Walrus’ efficiency gains are passed on to the end user. Namely, since stakers face little cost relative to operators, as Walrus scales, the network will pass these gains on to users by reducing the onchain price of storage.

In principle, a reduction in storage prices decreases a storage node’s operating margin. Since storage operators need to remain viable, operators can respond by increasing the share of stake rewards they keep in order to offset the lower prices.
In other words, in order to keep storage operators’ profit margins constant, market mechanics will push to increase the commission rate received by operators as prices go down. This change keeps a storage node’s operating margin constant at the expense of lower growth in the rewards received by stakers. Stakers continue to receive more stake rewards as the network grows, but the increase in rewards is lower than if the network did not pass some of these gains on to the end user. This dynamic benefits all of Walrus’ users, storage operators, and WAL stakers, and creates a fair economic system.
Generating sustainable success
Overall, the intricacies of Walrus’ pricing model are such that stake rewards increase as Walrus grows, while ensuring operators have viable business models and supporting ecosystem adoption. While Walrus will naturally launch with a low rewards rate for stakers, everyone benefits in the long run as Walrus can support higher reward rates and pass on cost reductions to end users, further supporting its growth flywheel.

#walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL
Walrus is launching the Walrus Bug Bounty Program to identify and resolve potential bugs across its decentralized storage platform. This program invites security researchers and developers to contribute to the safety and robustness of Walrus.
Key Areas in Scope
The Walrus Bug Bounty Program focuses on the most crucial elements that impact how users interact with Walrus along with the underlying core components and incentives. Submissions in the following areas are considered in scope:
Smart contracts & onchain logic: This includes areas such as blob registration, resource management, shard migration, and governance.Core protocol components: This includes the "Red Stuff" erasure coding mechanisms and availability certificate processes.Public API interfaces: This includes protecting aggregator and publisher APIs from denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.Economic & incentive mechanisms: This includes ensuring correct fee payments and preventing zero-cost storage exploits.
Exclusions
Everything else is considered out of scope for this program and will not be eligible for rewards, including:
Network-layer DoS attacks without lasting impact.Vulnerabilities in third-party systems.Theoretical impacts without proof of concept.Non-technical attacks.
Submissions
Submissions are managed through HackenProof, with qualifying submissions eligibleable to earn up to $100,000 (see the HackenProof page for more details). A particular emphasis will be placed on submissions that discover bugs related to Walrus’s economic model or data integrity.
Conclusion
The Walrus Bug Bounty Program helps ensure the Walrus protocol remains robust as Walrus Mainnet rolls out and edge-cases are explored. As the network grows, input from the security community can play a key role in strengthening the protocol and supporting its long term success.

The internet runs on data. From the pictures we post on social media to the apps we open every day, we spend a large chunk of our daily lives sharing gigabytes of ourselves online. 
But for years, more and more of our data has been given freely to companies that control it, monetize it, and keep it locked in their own centralized systems.
Walrus entered the world in 2025 with a vision: store large files on a high-performance platform so users could take back control of their data. We launched Mainnet in March of 2025, officially adding Walrus as a key component of the Sui Stack for building with real trust, ownership, and privacy baked in.
What followed Mainnet was a period of growth and real-world impact. In this article, we’re looking back at the moments that defined Walrus in 2025, from diverse use cases that demonstrate what a decentralized platform enables to the new features that expanded what developers could build.

Developers Started Building The Decentralized Future
Consumers are forced to trust centralized systems that aren’t necessarily reliable or trustworthy. On Walrus, no single entity controls your data, which unlocks new use cases across AI, consumer health tech, and AI agents. 
Here are a few examples of what projects were built with Walrus in 2025.

CUDIS provides users full control over their health data, letting them choose whether to keep it private or monetize it on their own terms. 
Alkimi is giving advertisers and publishers full control over their ad data, letting them verify every impression and transaction in real time. 
DLP Labs allows EV drivers to control their car's data, letting them earn rewards via carbon credits, virtual power plant revenue, and insurance savings.
Talus offers developers the power to build autonomous AI agents that can execute real-world tasks, make decisions, and generate income.
Myriad is building transparent prediction markets where users can trade on real-time forecasts. In an industry where weekly volume can exceed $2.3 billion, Myriad has already processed over $5 million in transactions since launch, with all data stored verifiably on Walrus.
This is what happens when you give people control: they build things that weren’t possible before. And as the Walrus ecosystem grows, the number of places where users can truly own their data grows.
The Industry Takes Notice 
While developers were getting busy building new applications, the broader market was discovering and growing their involvement in WAL. In June 2025, Grayscale launched the Grayscale Walrus Trust, giving accredited investors a way to gain exposure to WAL through a traditional investment vehicle. This allowed institutional investors to access Walrus without the complexity of buying and storing tokens directly.
WAL also became available on dozens of exchanges throughout the year, making it easier than ever for people to access and stake it. And availability is only part of the story: we announced that WAL will be deflationary by design. This means that with each transaction on Walrus, WAL will be is burned. As network usage increases, the token becomes scarcer, creating built-in deflationary pressure that supports long-term value.
This combination - growing accessibility, institutional interest, and deflationary tokenomics - sets the stage for the next year of milestones.
Walrus Became Programmable, Private, and Faster
Launching Mainnet was just the beginning. This year, we rolled out key features to transform Walrus into a faster, more efficient data platform.

Seal solved a critical problem for blockchain adoption: privacy. Behind every AI model, autonomous agent, and financial application lies a dependency on data, and not all kinds of data can be public, especially in industries like healthcare and DeFi. Seal made Walrus the first decentralized data platform with built-in access control, letting developers encrypt data and define exactly who can access it, all enforced onchain.
With Quilt, we tackled the challenge of storing small files efficiently. Before Quilt, developers had to manually bundle small files to reduce storage overhead. Quilt changed that by offering a native API that groups up to 660 small files into a single unit, saving Walrus partners more than 3+ million WAL. 

We also launched a new version of the Walrus TypeScript SDK with Upload Relay to create an express lane for data uploads. Instead of client apps managing the complex task of distributing data across hundreds of storage nodes, Upload Relay handles it. This speeds up uploads while keeping them reliable, even on mobile devices with spotty connections.
Together, Quilt, Upload Relay, and Seal show Walrus’ maturity. The focus on developer experience, speed, cost efficiency, and access control reflects a platform that's built for real-world applications.
What’s Next for Walrus
2025 was about showing the world what Walrus is capable of. 2026 is about making sure it’s an indispensable part of every developer’s toolkit and an essential part of what every user wants to see in an app that processes their data.
Here’s what we’re planning:
Making Walrus feel effortless 
We want using Walrus to be as simple as using any Web2 infrastructure tool. Expect new features that make Walrus even more powerful and easy to use. 
Making privacy the default 
Privacy and access controls are critical for the growth of decentralized data, especially for DeFi, data markets and AI. We plan to focus even more on empowering private, verifiable data workflows. 
Integrating deeper with Sui
The Sui Stack is the most complete developer experience available in Web3. In 2026, we’ll be integrating with the network even more closely, so your blockchain and your data layer can communicate seamlessly. 
The infrastructure is ready. The developers are building. Now it's time to make decentralized data storage the default choice for anyone shaping the future of the internet.
See you in 2026!

$WAL @Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus