There's an old saying: the most genuine things are always broken old dreams, and the hardest to let go of are the traces of the past. In the digital world, these "old realms" are our precious possessions—creative inspirations, transaction records, shared memories. The problem is that the "containers" holding this data—those centralized storage systems—are prone to issues. Server shutdowns, migrations, format obsolescence—what happens then? The "eternity" of data instantly turns into an illusion.

In the Sui blockchain ecosystem, there's a project called Walrus Protocol. Its goal is to create a "never-fading draft." The technical approach isn't complicated—erasure coding. Data is sliced and encoded, then dispersed across network nodes worldwide. Even if some fragments decay over time, as long as the network remains alive, the complete data can always be recovered. This grants data unprecedented resilience, allowing the things we care about to truly survive forever.

NFT artworks, massive AI training datasets, digital assets in the metaverse—all can find an eternal place within this system. Data is no longer subject to the fluctuations of a centralized platform.

What drives the entire mechanism is the WAL token and its surrounding economic system. Storage providers, data users, and network builders interact through WAL, transforming simple technical needs into a self-sustaining positive cycle, ensuring the network remains reliable and operational.

Ultimately, technology is meant to protect. What Walrus Protocol aims to do is to fundamentally change the fragile state of data loss. Those digital traces we deem most precious will no longer be washed away by time but will be permanently inscribed into a collectively maintained underlying network.