Have you ever experienced these annoying issues? Your phone's photo album is overflowing, after subscribing to a membership, sensitive photos are mysteriously deleted, large file uploads are as slow as a snail, and after storing data for a while, the links suddenly become invalid. I'm really fed up with this "living under someone else's roof" data lifestyle.

Later, a Web3 friend recommended Walrus to me, saying that this could change the way we store data. I was initially confused; I knew nothing about blockchain. Until she used a very vivid analogy:

"Now, the cloud storage you use is essentially like renting a house. The landlord (those platforms) can raise prices or change rules at will, and in short, you just have to get out. Walrus's approach is different — it wants to help you 'buy a house.' It breaks your data into countless small fragments and disperses them across thousands of independent nodes worldwide, and only you hold the keys."

The concept of data sovereignty really moved me. But the most practical question is: is this thing easy to use? Is it expensive?

At the beginning of 2026, Walrus launched a big move — an enterprise-level solution called "XL Blobs." The name sounds fancy, but the actual functionality is simply amazing: it can transfer TB-level files in a single operation, with read and write speeds that can directly compete with mainstream cloud drives.

What does TB mean? All the video materials accumulated from university to work over these years amount to just a few TB. With this solution, I no longer need to split a project file into hundreds of compressed packages for upload; I can just drag and drop to handle it all. Speed and stability are no longer bottlenecks. For creative workers who need to handle large files frequently, this is truly liberating.