Walrus is just marketing hype. True decentralization is about 10year survival, not catchy names. Will your data actually be there when the hype dies?
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The hard drive of Web3 is finally not a scam, Walrus directly rubs Filecoin and Arweave on the ground!
Ah, storing large files is really annoying now. Want to throw AI models, short videos, NFT materials on the chain? Ethereum directly scares you with gas fees, and Solana is also ridiculously expensive. Throw it on centralized cloud? Afraid that one day the platform will go crazy and delete your account. Filecoin and Arweave sounded pretty good before, but using them turned out to be more ridiculous than the last.
What about Filecoin? A ton of miners, the price is okay, but if you want to retrieve data anytime? You’ll be waiting forever, hot stuff sitting there like it's in a freezer. Arweave is even worse, asking for several thousand dollars at once (around $9000 now) claiming "permanent storage," but once you write it, it locks you out, want to change? No chance. Who can afford this upfront cost?
Walrus simply doesn’t play games with you.
It came up with a smart solution: cutting data into small pieces, throwing them to hundreds of nodes, and even if two-thirds of the nodes go down, it can be pieced back together in seconds. The cost of storing things is ridiculously low, now during the subsidy period, you can get 1TB for just dozens to hundreds of dollars ($50 starting), and later it will stabilize and be several times cheaper than others. The key is the speed is fast like cheating, uploading and downloading is almost like using Baidu Cloud, completed in milliseconds.
What’s even better is that this data interacts directly with smart contracts on the Sui chain. If you want NFTs to automatically change skins, AI to read and write its own memories anytime, or website content to update dynamically, you can control it all with code. Previous data was dead, now it’s alive and moving.
$WAL is the accelerator for this system.
You stake it to help the network stand guard, and you can share storage fees; use it to pay for storage; in the future, how the network adjusts parameters will be up to you. When AI and games really explode, massive amounts of data need a cheap, fast, and secure home, Walrus has basically locked down this position.
In short: storing things before was like paying an IQ tax, now using Walrus is the way normal people play.
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