Smart contracts build the logical framework of Web3, but the true foundation supporting the entire ecosystem is decentralized storage.

The current internet is like an iceberg. The interactive interfaces visible to users account for 10%, while the remaining 90% of static resources, multimedia data, and historical archives are stored in centralized servers or inefficient storage solutions. In recent years, public blockchains like ETH and SUI have solved the trust verification problem, but the massive data storage issue has never been truly cracked.

Walrus has changed this situation. Its core technology, Redstuff erasure coding, can be vividly described as: breaking original data into countless fragments and dispersing them around the world. The clever part is—you only need to recover a small portion of these fragments to perfectly restore the entire data. Compared to traditional storage solutions that require multiple complete copies, this extremely low redundancy directly reduces storage costs.

The WAL token plays a role not only as a storage resource certificate for the Walrus protocol but also as a carrier of data liquidity. Market data shows that by the end of 2025, the global decentralized storage market will have surpassed $15 billion. In this explosive era, the value logic of WAL is not simply market hype but reflects the genuine growth in underlying storage demand.

What may seem like an abstract technological innovation is quietly rewriting the infrastructure of the digital world.