Web3 development has reached a point where a very difficult problem has emerged—data storage is too expensive.

Imagine NFT, blockchain games, decentralized social media, AI-native applications—why have these projects been slow to take off? The fundamental reason boils down to two words: cost. All of them need to handle massive amounts of data, but the costs of on-chain storage are prohibitively high, directly stifling innovation in applications.

At this moment, Walrus was born. What has its emergence changed? It’s not just about "providing storage," but fundamentally redefining the relationship between Web3 applications and data. As a data layer solution built by Mysten Labs, Walrus uses advanced erasure coding technology to achieve three goals for data in decentralized networks: sufficiently secure, sufficiently efficient, and sufficiently affordable.

And the result? Web3 applications can finally freely "write data" without having to meticulously calculate every storage operation.

From a broader perspective, $WAL represents the next hot spot in Web3 infrastructure. Whoever controls the data layer holds the key to ecosystem expansion. When storage is no longer a bottleneck, true application explosion will follow.