Walrus project launched a series of ecosystem incentive measures in August 2025, worth paying attention to.

First is the airdrop and NFT mechanism. Over 80,000 eligible wallet addresses received NFT rewards. Users only need to stake 5 WAL tokens for at least one day (excluding liquid staking positions) to exchange for a soul-bound NFT that contains WAL tokens. This design effectively enhances community cohesion and engagement.

The internal staking mining within the ecosystem is also quite interesting. After locking WAL, users can earn multiple benefits—free trading quotas, treasure chest rewards, increased mining quotas, fee rebates, and a series of incentives. The larger the locked amount, the greater the rewards. This gradient design creates a relatively balanced tripartite win-win situation, which can indeed improve user stickiness.

WAL token holders also have governance voting rights, allowing participation in key decisions such as storage pricing and node admission. For example, the optimization of the storage pricing mechanism is driven by community voting. Decentralized authority makes protocol development more aligned with actual needs.

On the technical level, Walrus has collaborated across chains with Pyth Network, Alibaba Cloud Nest, and others, promoting cross-chain data storage and settlement. This significantly shortens the onboarding time for enterprise nodes. These technological collaborations further expand the ecosystem's participant base.

In terms of liquidity, support from many trading platforms has been received. Several mainstream exchanges have listed WAL trading pairs or perpetual contracts, effectively increasing the token's market liquidity, lowering the participation threshold for ordinary users, and energizing the trading ecosystem.