Everyone, if you're looking for opportunities in the Sui ecosystem, I suggest shifting your focus from popular tokens to infrastructure. Today, let's talk about this project called $WAL. Strictly speaking, it's not the kind of hype-driven coin, but rather a real project working on the Sui network—a decentralized storage solution.

Have you tried uploading a high-definition video or大量NFT原图 on-chain? The experience is basically slow and expensive. This is the core pain point Walrus aims to solve. To put it simply, it's like opening a huge warehouse next to the Sui highway, dedicated to storing large data that other chains can't handle.

Why is it competitive? One is speed and cost. Built on Sui, it naturally inherits high throughput and low Gas fees. More importantly, it’s truly decentralized—your data is sliced, encrypted, and distributed across thousands of nodes operated by ordinary people. There’s no risk of sudden server shutdowns like AWS, and no one can arbitrarily delete your data. You have full ownership of your data.

Market comparisons often put it against IPFS and Arweave. What's the difference? IPFS is like a shared folder—if a node goes offline, data becomes hard to trace. Arweave offers lifetime storage with a one-time fee, but it’s not cheap. Walrus strikes a balance: pay-as-you-go, flexible renewal, and most importantly, ensuring data is accessible whenever needed. Plus, with built-in programmable features, developers can build various application-layer services on top of it.

From an ecosystem perspective, infrastructure projects like this tend to go further than pure application tokens. Sui has already established a solid performance foundation; what’s missing now are supporting storage and data layers. Walrus fills this gap.