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Binance Square is not just a social feed, it is a social-media platform that is part of the Binance ecosystem where you can post market analysis, opinion, and educational material on crypto and Web3. Having been previously called Binance Feed, the site matches creators with fans and is used to tailor each user feed to their engagement. Since it is included in the Binance app and site, you can read posts and trade tokens or contribute to a conversation instantly, which means that creators can make money at home by sharing insights.

Introduction to Binance Square.

Binance Square is available to everyone who owns a Binance account. The first step would be to open a Binance account on the mobile app or the web and verify your identity (KYC). The guide that any beginner will understand is to download the Binance app, tap Register, register using your email or phone number and a very strong password. Secondly, confirm your identity by uploading an ID document and face scan. When confirmed, access to Binance Square is available through tapping on the Feed/Square tab in the app or clicking on Square on the Binance site.

In creating your profile, you will choose a nickname and include a profile photo to enhance the accessibility and enable other people to identify you. Once in Profile settings you can change your nickname, bio and avatar; username can be changed once only. Binance indicates that the site does not work everywhere and only registered users can make a post.

Types of Content and Creation Tools.

Binance Square serves multiple types of content:

- Posts- brief text, emojis or image (up to 2,100 characters) updates.
- Articles free articles which are long articles that have a large character limit (up to 80,000) and are suitable in in-depth analysis.
- Videos- horizontal and vertical video to be used in dynamic content.
- Live - audio-only chats like X Spaces/ Clubhouse or full-video chats.

The site allows one to improve posts. It allows including emojis, pictures or videos, and links (only to Binance materials) to add some background. Categorization features allow you to tag posts with hashtags and label posts as bearish or bullish and you can also mention the use of relevant coins so that people can find your work easily. Widgets are also about trading so that you can embed price charts, connect recent trades or even show portfolio snapshots. The engagement tools provide the ability to create polls and have them scheduled to be published.

Once published, you can edit, delete or delist any content via the menu as the… under each post. In addition, it is not limited to sharing posts; posts can be shared on other social websites, at the bottom of the post, there is a share button which can be used to share your post on X or any other social network.

Binance Square rewards long-term value creation, not short-term noise.

Finding the way around the Creator Center and Analytics.

The Creator Center is the place where creators organize their work and get insights. According to an official guide, the center offers settings, notification, follower management, content management, as well as a Data center. You can also track the number of pieces you have published, see growth in number of followers in the Data center, and view each post in terms of views, likes and shares. Even though analytics are not real-time, they provide an idea of the interaction with the audience. To see further details, click Data on each separate piece of content.

In addition to analytics, the Creator Center also contains a number of helpful sections:

- Write to Earn-creators who are eligible receive a portion of trading fees when readers trade on posts with coin cashtags in them.

- CreatorPad- task-based monetization in which creators are rewarded on the basis of quality posts and campaign involvement.
Bookmarked and Liked- List with all content you have saved or liked.

- What we are doing?- new campaigns and events announced.

- Trending Articles/Topics- thoughts and motivation behind the most trending crypto conversations.

- Creator Academy- content skills learning platform.

The creators may be awarded badges because of tasks or showing some accomplishments. Authenticated checkmarks are displayed on the accounts: black marks denote official Binance accounts, and gold marks identify influencers, organizations, or famous people. Those who have more than 1,000 followers get more actions such as the ability to create Quiz Red Packets (crypto gift boxes), as well as tips paid by their supporters. At least 1,000 followers are also needed in live streaming.

Write to Earn Monetization Program

In 2025, Binance enhanced its Write to Earn program and enabled creators to receive up to 50 percent of the trading charges on a sale resulting in their work. Within the new framework, creators who can be qualified earn an initial commission of 20% on the trading charges when a reader clicks a coin cashtag (e.g., 01BTC) or a price widget in their post and trades. Earnings: Binance prioritizes all creators according to the base commission earned at the end of every week and gives top 100 creators an additional bonus commission of 1030%. This implies that the top-ranked creators will be able to take up to 50per cent of the trade fees.

In order to qualify as a recipient of Write to Earn, you have to:

1. Full verification of the account (KYC) and profile creation with an avatar and nickname.
2. Register the promotion (those who participated in previous Write to Earn campaigns are automatically registered).
3. Post qualified content- this could be short posts, long articles, videos, polls, audio Lives or chats which are registered after registration.

At the conclusion of every week, commission rewards are computed and deposited in USDC into the funding account of the creator by the next Thursday. Weekly cycles are executed between Monday 00:00-UTC and Sunday 23:59-UTC and the rewards are not awarded until the commission is 0.1 USDC or higher. The program does not cover the trades of users who joined through a referral code, trades with no fees, trades made by a market maker or broker, trade between two stable-coins, and trades made through API.

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CreatorPad: Monetization by Task.

Binance Square introduced CreatorPad as a place of doing things in one shop and earning tokens as a reward.
Binance upgraded the creatorpad with a points system and leaderboards that were refreshed daily. Ratings are determined by the number of total points and content quality; posts are rated in terms of creativity, professionalism and relevance. Creativity is a scale that counts the originality and exclusive storytelling; professionalism is a scale that rewards articles that have been properly researched with quality multimedia; relevance is a scale that awards topical analysis of trending topics and new Web3 projects. Limits on repetitions of one activity are also present e.g. article posts can be limited to three a day. Artificial intelligence, red-packet posts and spam get zero points.

Creator Academy: Education and Development.

The Creator Academy provides materials and tutorials to people who want to enhance their abilities. In an article concerning the academy, it is described that the academy is intended to teach and mentor the content creators in developing their online identity. Key features include:

1- In-depth learning modules - crypto basics, blockchain technology, writing content that is not boring.

2- Earn as you learn participants have the ability to earn money by learning with the Write to Earn program.

3- Analytics tools – assist creators to monitor their performance and how their content is received by their audience.

4- Connection possibilities Networking and collaboration with other creators, exchange ideas and work.

One should only tap the Creator Academy icon in Binance Square, browse the tutorials, and create. The more you practice what you are learning, the more followers you are able to increase and the more reward.

Binance Square Success Tips

The Binance Square is no different, whether it is success or failure that is achieved through quality, consistency, and community. I can tell you the following tips:

Fill out your profile- choose a nick name and an avatar, so that people can identify your presence.

Do a trend research - use the Discover tab and hashtags to identify popular trends and get your posts inspired. To appeal to more readers, it is possible to write about new listings and market movers (tagging tokens with $BTC, $ETH, $BNB, etc.).

Play with your content - mix short posts, long articles, charts, polls, videos, and audio Lives.
 
Take advantage of your existing network – request friends and family to like and comment on your posts; initial likes and comments will give more reach.

become a member of monetization programs - enroll in Write to Earn in order to receive trading-fee commissions and in CreatorPad campaigns in order to share pools.

Be genuinely valuable I shall do better than plain shilling of this coin by deep analysis, tutorials, and original points of view. Valuing will give better outcomes to those who emphasize on it first.

Trend surfing- align your material with hashtags that are currently trending, such as #Bitcoin, #Ethereum, or altcoins such that the algorithm can show your work.

Be consistent - take content creation as a business. Posting and being active increases your level of creator and exposure.

New creators are not to spam, refer users to third-party services, or unofficial giveaway. Such posting should not be made to refer followers to Telegram or personal channels and it can result in the suspension of the account. No giveaways, no asking people to donate money; spread verified news to save your audience.

My Story: Zero to the Creator of the Year

I personally started using Binance Square about three and a half years ago, and I created an account already having no followers. Back then I had very little knowledge regarding trading and no audience. My friends and relatives informed me that I was wasting my time and even some laughed at the fact that one could make money with the help of a crypto social platform.

But I had my gut feeling, and continued to learn. I observed how market analysts studied markets. Slowly, I began to share my own market insights and posts, and I shared with other people what I learned. Regular posting and interacting with the community was the key.

I have also participated in Write to Earn which paid me every time my readers clicked in my posts. The little income encouraged me to work over my analysis and come up with quality content.

In 2024, I have been fortunate to be awarded Binance Creator of the Year. That was a surreal feeling, particularly as I recalled the initial stages when very few people thought I had a way to go.

I later participated in CreatorPad campaigns, accomplished assignments and published projects. Not only did such campaigns introduce me to new developers and crypto projects but I also received token rewards. With time, the number of my followers increased to dozens to thousands. I made acquaintances with leading creators, developers, and project teams and these associations have helped me gain insight into the industry.

I have approximately 150 thousand followers on Binance Square today. My content income has enabled me to work on a full-time basis at home and I have already educated over 200 individuals about how to explore the crypto world and begin earning themselves. I consider this experience not only as my personal achievement but also as an example showing that with the help of hard work, perseverance, and community, a hobby can be a source of income.

Screenshot concept: include a screen shot of your Binance Square profile with the number of followers and Creator of the Year badge. The other concept is to add a chart of the Data center which shows your growth in numbers over time among followers.

A Platform to be explored

Binance Square has become the whole ecosystem where all crypto lovers can study, participate, and make money. It monetizes social interaction by providing varied levels of content, powerful creation instruments, and various monetization platforms, ranging from Write to Earn commissions to CreatorPad reward pools. The Creator Academy and Creator Center offer the education and analytics classification required to develop, whereas such community attributes as trending topics and badge motivate quality and assurance. My personal experience demonstrates that despite the initial experience at the bottom, a creator can create a fanbase, establish professional connections, and become financially self-sustaining through the constant provision of value. In case you are ready to invest efforts and follow the rules of the platform, Binance Square is a good option to make money at home.

My introduction to decentralized data: Why data counts

In a digital era, we depend on the services of a handful of massive technology corporations which manage files that power applications, games, and AI systems. Such servers are centralized, convenient, but also dangerous: censorship, points of failure and obscurity about the control of our data. When I learned about Web3 and AI, I understood that blockchains do not support large "blob" files such as videos and datasets. Saving such would mean that each validator would need to replicate the file numerous times which is costly. Storage projects that are decentralized including IPFS employ full replication, resulting in slowness in retrieval and low programmability. I posed a question as to whether we could have a decentralized, secure, affordable and programmable storage layer.

The drawback of conventional data storage and blockchain data.
It is not in vain to understand the trade-offs that are present. Blockchain networks are based on consensus and small state transitions and large files are usually stored on all validators (replication factor of 100 or higher). Blobs are well managed in centralized clouds, such as Amazon S3 but result in high costs, single points of failure and censorship. Decentralized file networks like Filecoin and Arweave implement either full replication or basic erasure coding, either increasing overhead or reducing recovery speed. Most treat data are taken to be very fixed: you upload it, and later read it, and there are no convenient ways to program interactions. This static model cannot work with Web3 and AI where files have to be verified, monetised, or removed. The ideal protocol would reduce the cost of replication, ensure the data remain available despite the failure of nodes, allow developers to automate data management and grant their owners access control.
What is Walrus?
Walrus is a decentralized data-availability and storage protocol based on Sui developed by Mysten labs. It allows applications to publish, read, and program large binary files (blobs) using Move smart contracts, and make storage an interactive resource. The protocol is chain-agnostic: Walrus can be used with Solana, Ethereum, or any other chain by using its SDKs and developer tools to communicate with apps via Sui. The protocol is managed by the Walrus Foundation, which has raised $140 million in March 2025 as investors, including Standard Crypto but also Electric Capital, Franklin Templeton Digital Assets and others. The money is used to expand the platform and the mainnet was released on 27 March 2025.
I consider Walrus to be the data layer of the AI era. It seeks to render the information in the world trustworthy, useful and manageable- programmable assets of information that were originally passive files. Whereas other solutions provide an opportunity to upload and download, Walrus enables data and storage ownership, transferability, and interactivity through smart contracts. This has introduced new applications like data market places, AI agent back ends, on-chain websites and rich-media NFTs.
How Walrus works: a simple explanation of the technology.

Red Stuff and erasure coding

Walrus is about a new erasure-coding scheme known as Red Stuff. Such traditional coding as ReedSolomon is used to divide a file into fragments in such a way that any subset of them can be used to restore the original file but has difficulty dealing with node churn and expensive recovery. Red Stuff stores data at a two dimensional level with a replication factor of approximately 4.5x which is significantly lower than a full replication. It facilitates self-cure healing: in order to fix lost fragments, you can just the bandwidth that is equal to the lost data, and not the entire file. It further gives storage complications which discourage attackers to use network delays to counterfeit evidence. These properties allow Walrus to recover a file in case up to two-thirds of storage nodes fail or become malicious.

Proved-of-stake and epochs, which are delegated.

Walrus provides the network with delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS). The storage nodes will compete to be allocated stake by token holders; depending on their delegated stake, they will be included in the committee where the data is stored and served by the storage node during an epoch. At the end of every epoch, storage and retrieval rewards are given to nodes and stakers. Users do not require operating nodes, they can trade WAL tokens to trusted operators and receive rewards. Walrus will introduce slashing, whereby unscrupulous or underperforming nodes are deprived of some of their stake. Delegated staking is economically flexible and security-assuring. Any change of stake in short term is penalized, and this discourages short term attacks and promotes long term participation.

Sui integration and hard-disk storage.

Walrus uses the Sui blockchain as a control plane instead of storing metadata off-chain. Storage space and blobs are converted into Sui objects which are capable of ownership, division, combination, and transfer. The Walrus client can be configured to upload the data which is then split up into slivers which are distributed to storage nodes. There is a proof-of-availability (PoA) certificate that is placed on Sui, which confirms that the data is stored and accessible. Since these objects are stored on-chain, Move contracts can check the availability of a blob, renew it, or destroy it as long as it is no longer required. This deletion option is what makes Walrus unique compared to other protocols such as Arweave, that do not provide deletion. Here, programmability can bridge the gap between data and DeFi: you can create a payment on renewal, or create pay-per-view content, or tokenize data rights.

The WAL token: utility, distribution and economics.

The domestic currency of Walrus is WAL. It is limited to 5 billion supply of tokens and 1.25billion initial supply. It is estimated that approximately 1.57billion WAL are currently in circulation and the price is approximately $0.12/ token with a market cap of approximately 190million. WAL carries out three fundamental roles:

1. Cost: WAL charges users to store data. Payment to storage nodes and stakers is distributed in time, and hence storage costs remain constant regardless of token price fluctuations. Early use Walrus provides subsidies on early use by setting 10% of the supply of tokens in user subsidies, maintaining the storage cost at competitive levels during the bootstrapping of the network.

2. Security: WAL is used in delegation staking by means of storage node election. Nodes and delegators are remunerated in terms of performance, and slashing rewards non-performing or malicious nodes. This model of stake encourages decentralization whereby the stake is spread among a large number of operators.

3. Governance: The WAL holders participate in the voting on protocol parameters, including penalty rates. The nodes jointly determine the level of slashing and other charges which are determined based on their stake. Being a WAL holder, you are able to influence the economics of the protocol.

Token distribution

Walrus is community‑driven. More than 60% of all the WAL tokens are distributed in the community by airdrops, subsidies and Community Reserve. The distribution channel is as follows:

WAL is deflationary through two burning mechanisms. To start with, short-term stake shift fees are partly burnt. Second, reducing fines on the staking of poorly-performing nodes is also partially incinerated. Burning decreases in the long run supply and balances incentives to participate in the long term.

Governance and decentralization: retaining power decentralized.

There is a paradox of scale in decentralized networks: as they increase in size, stake is likely to get concentrated in a small number of large operators. Walrus manages this by making a number of design decisions. The holders of tokens give instructions to independent storage nodes, distributing ownership among a large number of operators and making it impossible to have a single party in charge of the data. Nodes are rewarded according to verifiable uptime and reliability and not their size, allowing small nodes to compete. Bad performance implies the slashing of stake, which discourages centralization. Speed of stake traveling is punished, and coordinated stake movement during voting or offensive. Distribution of governance-related decisions like the fee or reward parameter adjustment is a communal decision of the token holders, which offers communal control. The network is decentralized with this design because more users and data are added.

Applicability in the real world: AI to esports.

Walrus is no longer theoretical, but in practical use in a wide variety of industries:

1. AI and data marketplaces: Walrus holds massive amounts of data, which the AI models can be trained on, with verifiable, traceable data. Each blob has a proof-of-availability certificate on Sui, and thus developers are assured by the provenance of training data. Access control and confidentiality is also incorporated in the platform through encryption services such as Seal.
2. Web3 Content and media: Walrus Sites can take the place of decentralized websites, and videos or music can be stored as programmable objects by their creators. Walrus considers storage as a resource, which can be monetized with access or ownership transfer to creators.
3. NFTs and DeFi: NFTs frequently store metadata off-chain Walrus will make the real data available and tamper-resistant. Smart contracts are able to check the availability of data prior to conducting transactions. Walrus is used in DeFi to make roll-ups and on-chain applications, which require large state updates, available.
4. Enterprise backup and gaming: Firms create geographical redundancy by backing up vital files. In January 2026, esports powerhouse Team Liquid told Walrus that it was transferring 250TB of match footage and brand content to Walrus. The relocation gets rid of single points of failure, simplified access to data across its global teams, and made the archive future-proof. The programmable storage allows the Team Liquid to build new experiences and monetization opportunities in the field of fans by Walrus. Migration software like AI meta-tagging is one of the features that enhance search and access and is facilitated by partner Zarklab.
Partnerships and ecosystem
Walrus Foundation has developed a sound ecosystem around its protocol. The key investors are Standard Cryptos, a16z crypto, Electric Capital, and Franklin Templeton Digital assets. The project has collaborated with IO.net - an AI training GPU network, Seal to access control and privacy, Tusky to decentralized compute, Unchained to storage front-ends, and Pudgy Penguins - an NFT brand among many others. These partnerships demonstrate the scope of the potential of Walrus that includes AI infrastructure, NFTs, gaming as well as enterprise storage.
The comparison between Walrus and other storage solutions.
In my research, I equated Walrus to such well-known decentralized storage networks as Filecoin and Arweave. Chainflow analysis explains the reason behind why Walrus is unique:
- Reduced replication cost: Walrus erasure codes have a replication factor of approximately 45 times, compared to Filecoin using full replication and potentially much greater duplication. This reduces overhead and makes Walrus less expensive and fault tolerant.
- Incremental recovery: It is possible to reconstruct the data in the case when the missing slivers are up to two-thirds of the data, and the reconstruction process consumes as little bandwidth as the missing information. The speed at which filecoin can be retrieved is determined by the availability of miners and the permanence of Arweave is more important than speed.
- Deletability: Walrus enables the data owners to destroy or edit blobs using smart contracts, whilst Arweave does not have that feature at all.
- Programmability: Walrus allows storing content and data as Sui objects, allowing users to automate renewals, monetize content, and incorporate data into DeFi. Filecoin and Arweave are file systems that are not programmable, with data being relatively fixed.
- Equitable and confidential agreement: Determined slashing proof-of-stake with penalty charges promotes decentralization and accountability. The economic model created by Walrus is one that encourages efficiency and does not allow the concentration of stakeholders.
I believe that Walrus is not in direct competition with Filecoin or Arweave, but they complement one another with a high-performance layer of dynamic, programmable data-storing when they provide archival or immutable storage.
Threats, prevailing market environment, and my personal perspective.
No project is risk‑free.
The token WAL has been fluctuating: it had reached an all-time high of $0.8742 on 27 March 2025, but then sank to 0.07815 on 10 October 2025 and on January 2026 it is at an approximate of 0.12. Even though the mechanisms of burning and staking rewards may cause deflationary pressure, the token holders ought to wait and expect the changes in the market. Execution risk is also there: Walrus roadmap involves slashing, cross-chain integrations and more decentralization. Adoption may be slowed down by delays.

Nevertheless, in my opinion the data economy will become one of the trends of the forthcoming decade. Generative AI, metaverse platforms, decentralized social networks, on-chain gaming, etc, all rely on data storage and retrieval of large files. Walrus satisfies this requirement by technical innovations (Red Stuff), a programmable architecture, and a community-based economic model. The fact that AI developers and esports organizations are real-world users proves that it is not all hype. As a part of it, I will be thrilled to see the way Walrus and its ecosystem will develop. I will also leverage the network in my personal projects and participate in governance and not forget that it is not investment advice.

Conclusion

Walrus in a word reinvents the concept of data storage by viewing data storage as a programmable, interactive resource. It features advanced erasure coding to minimize the replication cost, introduces a delegated proof-of-stake to make the network secure and makes the smart contracts automation and deletion-friendly and allocates power with community-based tokenomics, which are built on the Sui blockchain. With its strategic collaborations, practical implementation, and effective investor support, Walrus is becoming one of the components of Web3 and AI infrastructure. Being a person who has a strong interest in data and decentralized technology, I view Walrus as a source of the new generation of applications, rather than another crypto project.

#Walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc
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The common belief held by most blockchains is that being transparent would make markets fair. Theoretically, such an idea is effective, in practical finance it fails quickly. Markets do not collapse due to the concealment of rules, but as a result of leaks of sensitive data. This is why I care about Dusk. It is not intended to turn finance into more of a public, it is intended to turn it into a functional discipline in the real world.

The actual issue: transparency is not an accidental leakage of data.

Transparency has been confused with honesty in crypto. Transparency leaks in the financial markets have an intent. Strategies can be reverse-engineered in case the sizes of trade, timing, counterparties, and flows are visible. This does not only harm traders but renders markets weak. Organizations will not be able to run in a world where all actions are published metadata.

Dusk is approaching privacy in a different way as compared to the traditional privacy coins. It defaults on activity, but permits selective disclosure. Transactions remain confidential, unless the evidence of their correctness is required, and they can be audited by regulators. Such balance is important; regulators desire demonstration and not obscurity.

Why controlled finance should have an alternative blockchain architecture.

Layer 1 blockchains are designed to participate and do experiments freely. Unregulated finance is the reverse. It needs restricted access, accountable visibility, official information in the market, and certain settlement. It is impossible to make additions to these properties later and still not shatter the system.

Dusk has been constructed to be in this environment. Its structure isolates execution, settlement and compliance logic into first-class elements. This allows privacy-sensitive smart contracts to co-exist with audit systems that regulators and institutions can rely on.

That is why the roadmap proposed by Dusk suits the European system of MiCA, European DLT Pilot Regime rather than trends of retail DeFi. It constructs the future of tokenized securities, funds, and debt, which will not exist beyond the law but rather exist within it.

Adoption is not a hurry - and that is no point of weakness.

One of the most frequent misconceptions in crypto is that a slow adoption rate means that the concept will fail. Controlled infrastructure is slow on account. All integrations will need legal inspection, risk analysis, and testing. This is not the growth of viruses, it is structural integration.

Its partnership with controlled institutions like NPEX demonstrates the way Dusk is headed. These are not headline collaborations; they are the moves towards integrating blockchain settlement into the current market processes. This adoption will be sticky in case it succeeds. Switches are not made between rails by the institutions every cycle.

It is in this difference that Dusk stands apart in comparison to narrative-driven chains. It does not have the attention optimization; it has the memorization optimization.

Insurance, not speculative, of systems: token economics.

One more direction Dusk chooses to draw a line is token design. DUSK token is not a meme asset or pure utility gas. It acts as a security budget. Emissions, incentives to be a validator and staking reward long term reliability, not short term opportunism.

The mechanisms of penalties are gentler, like temporary reward exclusion rather than vicious reduction: the philosophy here is not to kill operator capital, but to deter bad behaviour. This is in line with the real management of infrastructure. What you want are systems which fail gracefully and not catastrophically.

The trade‑off is clear. Milder punishments will have fewer fear-based punishments which will decrease the validator ecosystem, which is precisely what regulated markets need.

The actual danger: it is not ideas, it is execution.

The vision of Dusk is logical, yet the dangers are a reality. The biggest one is execution. Construction of infrastructure that is compliant is costly, time-consuming, and relationship-based. Provided that partnerships fail to be converted into actual issuance and trading volume, the technology by itself will not suffice.

There is also a timing risk. Speculation is mostly faster priced in markets than in infrastructure. The value of Dusk might not be apparent in bullish cycles where retail stories are prevalent. Its applicability is not until the institutions require privacy and accountability.

The reason why this approach is relevant.

Even with such dangers, I feel that Dusk is addressing the right problem. Assuming tokenized assets scale, they will not coexist on chains that spurt information or are unregulated. On them, they will survive on a system of privacy, auditability, and settlement discipline.

Dusk is not creating a chain of vibe. It is developing financial plumbing. Such infrastructure might seem unimpressive in the short term but once it functions, it will be underpinning.

It will not be the most vocal networks to dominate the future of regulated on-chain finance. It will be one of the institutions that the regulators scrutinize, markets depend on, and trust in there quietly, reliably, and over a very long period.

#Dusk @Dusk
$DUSK

Vanar is not any other blockchain. It is an attempt to build the memory and payments layer of the new generation of digital economies. The network addresses most of the largest problems in web3 by incorporating hybrid consensus, a fixed- fee model, a carbon-neutral design, and AI-native capabilities.

A New Kind of Digital Memory

The majority of blockchain considers data as immutable records. Vanar proposes the use of a neural engine called Neutron, which is an application memory layer. Vanar does not store the heavy data on the blockchain, but instead employs AI to reduce rich content to minuscule but verifiable seeds that exist on-chain. The original information can be reconstructed at the time when it is required, whereas the chain demonstrates the evidence of origin and integrity.

The concept behind the process is simple but effective: the content is stored, summarized with the help of AI, reduced with the help of a special model, and re-expanded at the time of need. This allows games, media platforms, and financial apps to access and manage the rich data without reducing the network speed. It makes the blockchain a memory reference point as opposed to a storage bottleneck.

This is the basis of myNeutron product by Vanar. It also allows individuals to build their own AI agents that do control digital assets, participate in games and offer application-accentuated guidance. Such agents are not just chatbots. They will have continuity and awareness as they can refer to on-chain information and previous interactions.

I would regard myNeutron as an electronic servant. It can recall what you have in your possession, what you do with apps and even act on your behalf. This may over time become agent-based markets where AI agents are involved in trade deals, as well as the management of DeFi positions or organizing entertainment experiences without much human input.

Representing the Ecosystem of Vanar

The ecosystem proposed by Vanar unites a number of parties: users, validators, developers, AI agents, and real-world assets. Chain agents are used by users who engage with AI agents. Validators win the network and get rewards. Applications are developed on an EVM compatible runtime by Vanar, existing Ethereum contracts are imported and Neutron is integrated.

Real estate or carbon credits example The tokenized assets at the periphery of the system interact with the off-chain markets. The outcome is a network in which data, value, and intelligence circulate as opposed to existing in silos.

Equity and Sustainability in the Middle.

Most blockchains purport to be decentralized but end up with power centralization. Vanar does not follow the same path and instead combines Proof-of-Authority and Proof-of- Reputation. During the initial stage, validators which are trusted provide stability and speed. The members of the community may gain the privilege with time to validate basing on reputation, behavior, and participation.

Such a method is pragmatic. It puts security and performance at the forefront and opens governance through maturity of the ecosystem. Vanar does not assume on day one that there is decentralization but remedies it as a process.

The other critical pillar is the fixed-fee model. The orders are completed one at a time and cost a small fixed fee. It lacks bidding wars, unexpected spikes and the necessity to time the transaction. High capacity blocks are generated after every three-second time and this system is applicable in gaming, micro-payments, and live interactions.

The network operates on carbon-free infrastructure and compensates the rest of the emissions. In my case, this is not about marketing, but a practical enablement. Sustainability reduces the opposition of institutions, brands, and regulators who are becoming more concerned with the environment.

Tokenomics Constructed to Coordinate Incentives.

VANRY, the native token of Vanar, is an asset with a limited supply of 2.4 billion. Approximately 50 percent of that supply could be minted at launch in order to move the old ecosystem token in a one to one fashion. The remainder will be discharged gradually over twenty years.

New tokens are issued in an evident priority list: the biggest part is allocated to validators who lock the network, the smaller part will fund the development, and a small amount of tokens will be reserved to community incentives. The big team assignments do not exist, and block rewards decrease in size with time.

I am fond of this design since it links rewards to long-term health. Validators receive money as a reward to keep the security, developers receive sizeable investment to keep building and users are encouraged to contribute. It discourages speculation in the short term and promotes a slow growth.

Connecting the Digital to the Physiological Economy.

Vanar is the offshoot of the Virtua ecosystem, which is why it is so much focused on gaming and digital collectibles. The compatibility of EVM allows developers to port Ethereum apps without significant rewrites, and low fees and fast block times make it possible to use it in games and have a lot of interactions.

In addition to gaming, Vanar is also branding itself as real-world asset infrastructure. It aims at supporting stablecoins and AI based workflows to support tokenised property, commodities, and other regulated assets. Cooperation with conventional payment providers is an indication of agentic payments, where AI agents make compliant payments automatically.

Just envision energy bills paid by AI agents on a continuous basis, or fractional ownership of real-estate under management on chain with minimal overhead. The fact that Vanar is predictable, the fees are low and that it is sustainable makes such ideas less abstract and closer.

A Multi-layered Technology Stack.

The stack by Vanar is made to be modular. Smart contracts are run by a runtime layer. Neutron layer is a layer that deals with AI summarisation and compression. A layer of storage controls the retrieval of data. Cross chain bridges bridge Ethereum and Polygon among others.

Such a stratumatic design is not by chance: Vanar prefers to be middleware of digital experiences, rather than an additional execution chain. Its integration of AI, payments, storage, and interoperability is meant to help enable full application ecosystems and not single use cases.
Growth and Momentum of Investment Ecosystems.
The development of Vanar is in a rhythmic way. There are distinct stages of development in token migration, the launch of AI products, ecosystem tools, and strategic partnerships. The investor interest is heightened to these milestones of delivery, and not speculative hype.

The consistency is what is outstanding. The process of growth is not dramatic. That puts a hype cycle at a minimum but makes foundations. Execution and not promises are followed by capital.

I consider Vanar to have been trying something more than faster blockchain. It is constructing inhabited infrastructure, systems that are recollectionary and deliberate and act. It addresses technical and human issues by integrating AI-based memory, fair consensus, predictable fees, and sustainability.

The asset-controlling AI agents, paying negotiations and experience maintenance into the chain seem to be the logical continuation of Web3. Vanar is too young and there are threats of adoption, governance and competition. However, its emphasis on practicality instead of service hype is what makes it one of the more considered projects in the sector.

When Web3 is supposed to serve the real economies, it must have infrastructure that is boring, intelligent, and stable in the most excellent manner. Vanar is attempting to construct such.

$VANRY #Vanar @Vanar

I am a fan of the idea of powering people over their own data via blockchains, and thus I followed the Plasma project attentively. Contrary to most projects, which introduce a new DeFi token or a scaling solution, Plasma will seek to break down the data silos surrounding blockchains to actually allow users to own their digital assets. This paper will describe Plasma in simple language, the issues it addresses, how it functions, and why I believe it is important. In between, I will use charts and pictures that depict the ideas.

The Issue: Scattered Data and High Prices.

Blockchains have created an abundance of decentralised apps, although they present new bottlenecks. All the data are stored in different chains, and, therefore, Ethereum data cannot be easily read in Solana or Avalanche. Those who add excessive information to single chains incur huge charges. Larger files are used by users on off-chain services such as IPFS or Arweave. Those are useful services, however, they do not simplify the process of transferring data between chains. The outcome is a disjointed playground with apps unable to share information easily and users of apps unable to carry hundreds of wallets to store their resources.

A Chain agnostic solution to storage networks: Plasma.

Plasma reinvents the concept of blockchain storage as a layer of neutrality below every network. It has a decentralised physical infrastructure in which anyone has the potential to contribute to storage and bandwidth by running a validator node. A proof-of-stake consensus is employed by the validators. They encrypt XPL tokens to be able to store data.

Plasma makes use of evidence of spacetime to maintain data. Validators also issue cryptographic evidence showing that they still possess the files they are compensated to store. In case a node is unable to provide a proof, the node loses its stake. It is a system that rewards honesty but not any particular side.

What I like the most about it is that Plasma is chain-agnostic. A developer can save user profiles of an Ethereum application in Plasma and retrieve them in a smart contract on a different chain. The network connects lightweight clients that are aware of consensus rules of other networks. Practically, a gamer might have game-based items in one chain, and apply them in a game in another chain without incurring the hassle of bridging and custodial services.

Considerate Tokenomics and Stability.

At the time when I consider a crypto project, I consider structure of token supply. The native token of Plasma is XPL, the fixed max supply of which is 10b, and currently, 1.8b circulates. The first three years will not increase supply in the network. Subsequently, the inflation is gradual and will decrease to around 2 per cent annually, and new tokens will reward validators. Part of the fees are also burnt and this can offset the inflation in the long run. This is a balanced design that avoids the dilution of normal users as well as rewarding the validators.

Token Allocation

The XPL supply is divided to the participants through a transparent manner of 10billion. The first partners receive an investment to initiate adoption. Some is allocated to the team and core contributors who have long lock in periods to align their interests to the network. The rest is given to investors and a pool of grants to finance development and work in the community. I like the fact that the project transparently shows these allocations so that everyone can see how tokens are owned. The breakdown is illustrated in the chart below.

Currently, only 18 0.00 per cent of the tokens are in circulation, and thus, the largest portion of supply is locked. The total supply will increase when tokens are unlocked later and therefore, investors need to monitor future unlocks.

Circulating vs Total Supply

It is important to know the distinction between circulating supply and total supply in order to value a token. At this point, both the circulation and total of XPL are 1.8 and 10 billion, respectively. The numbers are compared in the bar chart below. The grey part indicates that there are still tokens locked or reserved, which indicates the potential amount that can be added to the industry with time.

Data Sovereignty and Digital Rights.

The number of articles related to Plasma revolve around tech details or tokenomics. I would like to point out a human aspect: the sovereignty of the digital. In the modern era of technology, having your data and being free to transfer is a fundamental right. Big tech companies archive our information, and determine how it is applied. Even within blockchain, data is usually stored on a single chain and this constrains freedom.

The cross-chain storage of Plasma allows storing the information of a user and transferring it among networks without depending on centralised bridges. It is some kind of a passport to your digital identity. It means that you can go wherever you want in the decentralised world and carry your assets and data with you.

Making Developer Experience Simpler.

Plasma reduces barriers to entry as seen by a builder. Developers do not have to code it separately and put data on a different storage per chain: just write it once and save on Plasma. This saves on maintenance and accelerates innovation. It also develops a common data layer where programs on one chain can communicate with those on another chain, giving rise to new product ideas.

Adoption Trends: Multi-Chain Tools are a Trending Market.

The infrastructure projects are successful when they have demand. The number of users of crypto is on the rise globally, and hundreds of millions of people own online resources. It has become quicker than the conventional mode of payment and there are countries that are leading in this.

The increase in the number of users promotes the need of scalable and flexible infrastructure. With the increase in the use of digital assets, applications will have to store and retrieve data in numerous chains. Plasma occupies the heart of this trend whereby the service they offer increases in value as more people adopt it.

Outside Storage: Possible applications.

The architecture of plasma allows numerous applications in addition to simple file storage.

Decentralized identity can store credentials in Plasma, such that users can demonstrate authenticity across chains without exposing sensitive information. Cross-chain gaming may allow players to own objects or characters in one chain, and utilize them in a different chain. Metadata and collateral records could be stored on a portable format in the stablecoins and DeFi platforms. Decentralized social networks may be operated on several chains with the preservation of user history.

Why I'm Optimistic

There are risks. The supply will be increased with token unlocks, and the competition in decentralized storage is tough. The team should work towards creating a secure and reliable network. Nevertheless, the favourable indicators are high.

Plasma addresses an actual issue that has a definite economic framework and a long-term motivation to do so. Due to the increase in crypto adoption, the demand in cross-chain infrastructure will increase. However, and most importantly, Plasma aligns with my philosophy that the individuals should own and manage their digital lives.

Plasma helps to get us one step closer to an entirely decentralized internet, where individuals have the freedom to act instead of being isolated subsystems. When the implementation fulfils the vision, Plasma would be a cornerstone of the new wave of blockchain usage.

#plasma @Plasma
$XPL

The crypto world is never the same. Plasma is one of many chains and tokens that have attracted my attention as it addresses a legitimate issue, trust-free data storage and effective cross-chain communication. In this article I will give what I have observed regarding Plasma and its token, XPL. I want to make the explanation of the project as simple as possible and demonstrate, that I did the research to understand, where the project belongs in the perspective of the greater market.

What Plasma Is

Since the name Plasma was new to me, I initially associated this with the old Plasma scaling concept of Ethereum. But here Plasma is an independent blockchain of layer-1. It is constructed as a decentralised physical-infrastructure network of storing all types of data.

There are three major features of the network.

To begin with, the storage of universal data. Plasma operates a chain of validating nodes which serve and store files in numerous chains. It relies on proof-of-stake to maintain integrity of data and to compensate node operators. The developers will be able to store data on Plasma and then access it in any chain.

Second, proof of spacetime. Validators often give cryptographic evidence that they still possess the information they were paid to archive. These evidences are documented in the books of accounts of Plasma which forms a publicly available record that anyone can audit.

Third, interoperability. Plasma is chain‑agnostic. Customers can save information in one chain and retrieve on the other. An example is an application made using Ethereum that may store user profiles in the Plasma and then retrieve them later in a different blockchain. This minimizes the storage of data in silos and duplication.

The Process of My Reflections on the Problem Under Solution.

The issue with many decentralised applications is that it is difficult to store large volumes of data on-chain due to the high fees charged by the major networks to store and retrieve data. There are off-chain solutions though they become complicated during the time data have to cross chains.

The potential of the plasma as both cost and interoperability-driving is unique as it addresses both cost and interoperability. Personally, I believe this can make the app-building simpler, and reduce the redundancy that occurs across the ecosystems.

Supply and Tokenomics What the Numbers Tell.

The concept of any crypto project is inseparable without the knowledge of its tokens. The total number of XPL tokens is 10 billion; however, a very limited number of its tokens are in circulation during the early years. The remaining is in lock-up or set aside.

The network has a definite issuance plan. The first three years will have no inflation. The supply that was in circulation remains unchanged and the network is concerned with adoption during this period. This is followed by the onset of inflation at a very gradual pace which ultimately stabilises at a low rate per year. New tokens are given to those who store data and keep the network.

Plasma is another system that employs a mechanism of fee that burns part of the transaction fees. This decreases supply in the long term and equalizes inflation.

Allocation Breakdown

The overall supply of XPL is divided into a number of groups.

Some of it is paid to first-time investors and strategic stakeholders who assisted to initiate and expand the network. A minor portion will be allocated to the core team and contributors and lock-up timelines will be implemented to balance long-term incentives and reduce the pressure to sell early. The other section is the investors who can offer capital and direction. The biggest portion is allocated to grants and ecosystem funding, which serve to support developers, community projects, and future partnerships.

These lock‑ups matter. Selling pressure can be decreased in the initial years because the small supply of circulating can lower selling pressure. As the locked tokens will unlock, the market will have to soak in more supply. As an investor, it is necessary to follow unlock schedules.

Circulating vs Total Supply

Market data indicate that XPL is only circulating in a certain percentage of the entire supply. A majority of the tokens are locked or reserved.

There are two impacts of this structure. On the one hand, it inhibits instant dilution. On the other hand, supply may rise with time and inflation may unlock future. Any person considering the token must consider this as a long-term consideration.

Network Economics and legitimizers.

Plasma is based on a proof-of-stake. Validators store data, answer queries of retrieval, and store XPL tokens and execute nodes. They in turn get rewarded by inflation and transaction fee percentage. Part of the collected fees are burnt by the fee structure and the rest are allocated to validators. Such a design ensures the protection of network security and limits the supply of tokens. Part of the benefits can be directed to a community treasury that funds growth and development of eco-systems.

The degree of decentralisation relies on the ease with which one can become a validator. Participation is affected by hardware requirements, bandwidth requirements and staking requirements.

Investors and Backers

There are a number of well-known crypto-oriented investment funds that have aided plasma. These supporters will include capital, credibility, and industry contacts. Although that is not the case, strong investors can boost a project to overcome the initial challenges and climb higher.

The Broader Market Context

The use of crypto is increasing across the world. Millions of users now possess digital assets and the usage has increased at a higher rate than the traditional payment systems over the past years. The rates of adoption are high in emerging markets, especially.

This is an advantage to the Plasma since the decentralised storage will gain demand with the increase in applications migrating to the blockchain. Networks such as Plasma can become more popular when the developers require trustworthy, cross-chain data storage.
Risks and Considerations
There are a number of risks that should be addressed. The supply may be increased in the long run due to token unlocks and inflation. There is a high level of rivalry, as there are other decentralised storage networks, and even centralised cloud providers who provide alternatives. There are execution risk, the network needs to demonstrate that it can scale safely. The same applies to regulatory uncertainty and market volatility since they apply to all crypto assets.
Plasma is an idealistic infrastructure initiative that will resolve a crypto issue. I like the fact that its token system is well explained and concentrates on long-term rewards. The design, storage proofs, staking and burning of fees depict careful economic planning.
It will only succeed when adopted in reality. Plasma not only has to lure developers but also provide a robust infrastructure and demonstrate that its vision of cross-chain is practical. Plasma is a project to monitor to all those researching infrastructure-related crypto projects. Nevertheless, there has to be a clear picture of both its potential as well as its risks.
#plasma @Plasma
$XPL

Introduction

Initially, I believed Vanar to be another blockchain. Yet the more I knew the more I saw that it has higher aims. Vanar is an Ai-based Layer-1 protocol that is an Ethereum-based network. It is the same yet tokenized asset, or real-life earnings that are supported by ultra-fast payments, and it is even eco-friendly and affordable.

The team sells Vanar as a PayFi, entertainment and tokenized asset blockchain. The only objective it has is to be the backbone of next-generation digital economies. This paper will describe Vanar architecture, distinctive characteristics, token design, and latest market events using simple words and my own opinions.

What Is Vanar?

Vanar is an Layer-1 blockchain which is based on Ethereum but incorporates significant modifications. The developers utilize a Go-Ethereum implementation and use their own consensus system. Vanar combines Proof-of-Authority and Proof-of- Reputation instead of pure proof -of-stake.

In the initial stage, the Vanar Foundation operates validator nodes on Proof -of-Authority. Subsequently, the network will welcome the community validators. Their validation capacity is based on a reputation score, which is a combination of staking, previous behavior as well as community trust. The straightforward premise: trustworthy actors gain reputation over the years, and they have earned the right to gain the network. This hybrid model is a compromise of speed, security and fairness.

Other tweaks of Ethereum include the ones made by Vanar to suit its applications. Orders are first-in-first- out rather than gas-bidding. One of the fixed-fee models maintains costs at approximately a US cent. Blocks are generated after every three seconds and have a high gas limit to allow quick payments, gaming and real-time applications. Since it is still EVM compatible, developers do not need to make significant adjustments in order to deploy existing Ethereum smart contracts.

Why Vanar Matters

What enticed me to Vanar is the fact that it was designed holistically. The group did not consider solely one measure; they created the network with the following pillars:

High speed: 3 seconds block times are appropriate to gaming and payments.

Low cost: The fixed fees avoid bidding wars and make micro -transactions a reality.

Scalable app ecosystem: Wallet support, bridges, NFTs, DeFi, and marketplaces form an entire developer environment.

Green design: The network uses carbon-neutral design and compensates the emissions.

Fair consensus: The transition of PoA-to-PoR promotes decentralization in the long term.

AI integration: Vanar is not a payment chain, but rather an AI-native platform.

Such a combination of speed, low cost, scalability, and AI capabilities distinguishes Vanar among the majority of Layer-1 networks I studied.

Tokenomics and Supply

The native token is VANRY. It drives gas fees, staking and rewards on validators. It is also wrapped on Ethereum and Polygon, making inter-chain transfer easier.

Vanar limits its provision to 2.4billion VANRY. Fifty percent of the supply went into circulation as a one-to-one migration of the holders of the previous token at launch. The remainder is paid out over a period in twenty years and is divided as follows:

1. Validator awards (83%)- network securitizing.

2. Development rewards (13%)- long-term development financing.

3. Community airdrops (4%)- rewarding early adopters.

There are no team tokens present in this allocation and the incentive to grow the network at the expense of short-term mining. Block rewards decrease smoothly in order to stabilize the inflation.

The revision of the supply design represents a long-term attitude: the majority of tokens goes to validators and the community, and development gets the sufficient amount to keep the process going.
Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Decentralized Finance, and Real World Assets.
Payments are not the only ambitions of Vanar. It has one of the most interesting projects, which is called myNeutron, a personal AI companion that communicates with on-chain applications. Users are able to build AI agents to handle assets, help in games and navigate the digital worlds. The early access will be released in late 2025, and then expanded. The AI-native story of myNeutron is confirmed by real interaction of users with the product.
Gaming is another core focus. Vanar is a product of Virtua ecosystem, which is why it focuses on the digital collectibles, virtual land, and real-time experiences. The original Virtua token was transferred to VANRY when the new chain was developed. EVM compatibility allows the games that are already operating on Ethereum to be moved with minimum friction.
On the DeFi side, Vanar will assist the bridges, decentralized exchanges, lending, and PayFi-type applications. The fixed low charges render frequent payments and streamlining payments feasible. Fractional ownership of property or commodities is also noted by the team as one of the long-term applications of tokens.

The attention of investors has not increased drastically. Financing actions and collaboration increased with Vanar shifting between idea and actualization. Regular interests spikes are based on the physical developments where products are released, integrations, and ecosystem grows rather than the hype cycles.

Self-Reflections and Prognosis.

Since I did some research about Vanar, I like how real the project seems. The hybrid consensus model provides an expedient channel of decentralisation. Constant low charges cover a long-term blockchain problem. Sustainability is seen as infrastructure as opposed to marketing buzzword. Above all, the AI implementation is inherent in the system as opposed to being added later.

Challenges remain. Reputation-based validation should demonstrate the ability to counter centralisation. The Layer-1s are very competitive. The outside of the ecosystem adoption will be determined by the ease with which Vanar can be used by non-technical users.

With that said, Vanar is a sustainable project and not a hype machine. Provided that its AI layer, gaming orientation and real world asset ambitions keep developing, it may become a silent but vital component of the digital infrastructure of the future. I will be observing keenly the growth of the ecosystem.

#Vanar @Vanarchain
$VANRY

Introduction

I have been following the development of web-native infrastructure, and one of the biggest discontinuities that I continued to notice is that blockchains are not designed to store the massive files that modern applications require: game art, AI models, high-resolution NFTs. The latter created the necessity of returning to the old cloud services and undermined the decentralization that we intended to achieve. The disappointment with this inadequacy resulted in my visit to Walrus, which does not consider data availability as a second-order concern.

Walrus is a decentralized system of data networks used concurrently with the Sui blockchain. It converts storage capacity and data stored within storage capacity to on-chain objects. Those can be programmed and can be governed by the same economic logic as other crypto primitives. I will discuss in plain language how Walrus addresses the data problem in the architectural, economic and developer-experience perspectives in this article. I will also discuss its technical innovations like Red Stuff and Seal, outline the token economics, compare it to other networks of decentralized storage and my thoughts on why it is significant.

Using Data as Infrastructure.

Fundamentally, Walrus acknowledges that blockchains are incapable of efficiently storing large and unstructured data. The customary off-chain, decentralized storage is either expensive to replicate in its entirety or depends on off-chain pinning, a concept that brings about trusted intermediaries. Walrus transforms it by storing programs programmably: blobs and quotas are stored as Sui objects. The MoveVM as Smart contracts can be used to auto-renew, provide access control and connect storage operations to larger application logic. Since the said objects reside on the chain, their condition and economics remain transparent and auditable.

Economics are key. Users pay to use the storage in advance and do not rent it as long as they know, but rather a specific storage duration on a silent network. The charges are then redirected in the long run to nodes that demonstrate that they hold the data at their disposal. WAL tokens are staked by storage providers and rewards are based on the performance of the nodes. Articles that do not store information or fabricate counterfeit evidence are slashed or penalized. This is a prepaid model that is proof-of-storage to avoid volatility in prices and store corruption in silence. Walrus makes storage available as reliable infrastructure and not a best effort service by treating storage as on-chain objects with economic guarantees.

Red Stuff: Erasure Coding of Physical Networks.
Red Stuff is a two dimensional erasure code scheme that would be considered among the best projects in the engineering works of Walrus. Other systems will either copy whole files, wasting bandwidth or simple erasure codes that will require the download of the entire blob in order to restore lost information. Red Stuff transforms every file into a set of primary and secondary slivers through a large number of nodes. When a sliver is lost only the missing portion has to be re-fetched; recovery bandwidth is identical to the lost data and not the entire file. This has a drastic effect on repair expenses, and lets the network run with approximately 4.5 replicas per file instead of 6 or more without affect on durability.
Red Stuff is asynchronically constructed. Latency varies and nodes are destroyed and created in a real world environment. Most of the erasure schemes rely on synchronous messages, and hence they can be subject to a timing attack. The proofs of Red Stuff can even operate with out of order messages, and allow enemies to claim that they are storing information. Walrus also spins storage committees in place to support node churn so that the data is always accessible even when the transition occurs. Such innovations introduce the decentralized setting of cloud resilience and efficiency.
Simple Storage and Retrieval Programmably.
What is the programmability of data? On Walrus, a blob is not just a URL. It is an object that has a life cycle. Smart contracts have the capability to automatically renew storage, ensure access to data can only be accessed or modified by a particular person, and whatever actions are performed can be paid with a token payment or ruled by a governance rule. As an illustration, an NFT can refer to a storage object with its renewal being charged using the royalties of the NFT, where the artwork will never be lost. A dApp may demand that there was evidence that a model dataset has been stored properly and then release funds to a compute provider.
This puts storage logic into the same composable environment as DeFi and governance, but it is brittle and off-chain. All objects are on-chain; hence, it is atomic, upgradable and auditable. This will be a massive simplification to developers who have had a hard time pinning services or with the unreliable IPFS links.
Seal: Programmable Secrets Management.
Secure storage of data is not the only challenge; several of the use cases require the control of who views or modifies data. In mid-2025, Walrus released Seal, a decentralized secrets-management service which employed threshold encryption. Seal allows its developers to encrypt data or secrets then to establish fine-grained decryption criteria. In smart-contracts, a storage provider never encounters plaintext and decryption only occurs based on the conditions embedded in the smart-contracts. This introduces new types of dApps:
* Data vaults owned by the users: It will allow users to save sensitive data and only provide access to a doctor or notary, upon meeting conditions. These conditions are imposed in the network without a central administrator.
* Token-gated media: Musicians or filmmakers will be allowed to sell access to their work. Walrus encrypts the content and can be decrypted by the holders of a specific NFT only. Storage is decentralized which means creators do not require a web server.
* AI model provisioning AI companies can safely output weights or APIs. A customer who has paid is provided with a decryption key that it can access within a specific time, and all the terms are placed on-chain.
Besides Seal demonstrates, Walrus is not only a storage layer but it is about managing data flows in a decentralized economy. Together with the efficiency of Red Stuff and programmable storage model, Seal makes Walrus a complete stack data platform.

The use of Token Economics and Incentives.
Walrus uses its own token, WAL. The token allows the users to pre-pay storage costs, stake on providers, and vote in governance. Its economic model is clearly defined: a user deposits funds depending on the selected duration of storage and the funds are released in small amounts to nodes with the condition of verification of availability. In case of misbehavior, a node can have its stake slashed and the prepaid storage of the user will be transferred to a healthier node. This match between users and providers is necessary to the long term sustainability.
The approach in the token allocation equalizes neighborhood incentives and the development of the core. In line with what Walrus has done on its token utility page, 43 percent of the supply will be allocated to community, 10 percent will be allocated to airdrops to early adopters, and 10 percent to network incentives and subsidies. The core contributors will have 30 per cent with early founders and Mysten Labs (15 per cent each). Another 7 % goes to investors. This design finances continued research, reward builders and makes adoption more likely without creating concentration of power in one group.
Ecosystem and Adoption
Walrus is not just a research project, it actually drives applications. The social platforms of SuiSign, a decentralized social platform, are then stored in Walrus (user profiles and user signatures), and the character art and metadata is stored in game studios like Pudgy Penguins. Flock.io is an AI platform based on Walrus using the programmable storage and Seal to provide machine-learning models with security. Decentralized music streaming and privacy-preserving voting are just some examples of dozens of projects starting with the network hackathons and grant programs. The core storage layer is composable, therefore each new project adds to a data availability commons.
Comparison of Walrus with Other Storage networks.
In an attempt to get a clear understanding of where Walrus would fit, I related it to two popular decentralized storage systems: Filecoin and IPFS. Each solution will be rated (out of 10) based on its availability, cost efficiency, programmability, and secrets management as shown in the chart below. These scores indicate trends in the industry and my exposure to the protocols.
The highest score for Walrus is in the programmability and secrets management since it views storage as on-chain objects and it also provides encryption using Seal. Filecoin is well available and cost effective in nature yet does not have a complete programmability layer. IPFS is cost-effective to address simple content but uses external pinning services to be persistent and lacks in-built encryption and a programmable renewal.
Image of Distribution of Tokens.

The representation of the distribution among the stakeholders highlights Walrus priorities on community adoption, but core development funding.
Most of the tokens will be allocated to community projects, and large denominations will be given to the initial donors and Mysten Labs to guarantee the further development of the protocol. The share of investors is a relatively small portion and network incentives are designated to user subsidies and storage rewards.
Reflections and Future Outlook.
In my own opinion, Walrus is a mature web-scale decentralization. It removes the economic and technical failures of previous systems by making storage a primitive on-chain and aligning incentives through prepaid charges and slashing, as well as inventing novel techniques in erasure coding. Its programmability and Seal integration allow applications, including AI, to music streaming, which was not achievable with the traditional storage networks.
Walrus is not without risks. The economic model presupposes the increase in demand; in case the storage demand is not increasing, the incentives of nodes might be weakened. The fact that it depends on the Sui chain implies that disruptions in the base-layer will be transferred to storage assurances. However, the open architecture, vibrant community, and significant research pipeline (with current effort in Quilt to support data analytics and cross-chain bridging) puts me at ease that it will remain the leader in the field of decentralized infrastructure.
I do not think this age of viewing data as an externality has been eliminated. Walrus demonstrates that storage may be as programmable, as secure, and cost-efficient as token transfers. It provides a strong alternative to developers and users who desire a censorship-resistant and durable storage with in-built privacy settings. The solutions such as Walrus might be the invisible hand beneath the water to ensure that the decentralized applications are actually self-sufficient, as the Web3 ecosystem matures.
#Walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc
$WAL

Introduction

In my eyes, as I look at the development of open blockchains, there are two antagonistic forces; first, the necessity to be transparent and second, the necessity to be private.  Decentralized ledger systems like Ethereum have demonstrated that financial transactions of a global scale can be managed by decentralized ledgers but the data is publicly stored on these systems.  Such transparency conflicts with the facts of regulated financial markets, where secrecy, compliance and speed are also vital.  Dusk establishes itself as the solution to this issue. Theoretically built to be used in regulated markets, it is based on zero-knowledge cryptography and a purpose-built consensus mechanism to provide a privacy-enabling and compliant transaction.  This article gives me an insight about the functionality of Dusk, its significance and positioning in the greater market.

Understanding the need of privacy with compliance.

In conventional finance, the positions of parties and avoidance of front-running are safeguarded by confidentiality. Public blockchains compromise such privacy as all people can see account balances and histories of their transactions. To overcome this, Dusk incorporates the innovative cryptographic methods enabling participants to demonstrate the adherence to regulations without divulging the underlying information .  Zero-knowledge proofs may be used to verify regulatory rules (e.g. anti-money-laundering checks or restrictions on securities transfers) in such a way that the auditors can only view what they legally have access to. This selective disclosure renders Dusk appealing to institutions that are required to comply with such regulations as the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) and MiFID II of the European Union.  The thing that interests me the most is that Dusk is aiming to offer the privacy of Monero but allow compliance of standard exchanges.

Technology under the hood

The architecture of Dusk is not based on an existing chain; it is designed to handle regulated finance. Succinct Attestation (SA) is the basic consensus algorithm. It ensures finality of transactions within seconds, satisfying the need of financial markets (high-throughput, low-latency).  SA is a proof-of-stake system in which block producers and the validators are attesting the block with zero-knowledge proofs.  In order to share information fast, Dusk employs Kadcast, a peer-to-peer protocol that is based on Kademlia distributed hash table. Kadcast organizes the network into hierarchical trees and sends messages to peers in successively further distances to consume less bandwidth and propagate messages rapidly and reliably.

The network is sustaining two models of transaction that are complementary:

1- Moonlight - an account-based transparent model like Ethereum.  It is applied in operations requiring or acceptable full visibility.

2- Phoenix - UTXO-based model, which allows transparent and obfuscated transfers. Transaction amounts and participants can be hidden in the city of Phoenix yet the compliance can be verified by authorized auditors.

This mix model allows Dusk to operate two types of activities on the same chain: privacy-sensitive and public. Zedger, a smart-contract framework of confidential securities and corporate actions, is run on top of these models.  Zedger focuses on token offering security and conventional financial instruments, which offer on-chain settlement and corporate governance solutions, as well as maintain confidentiality

The conceptual visualization of the layers of importance of Dusk is below. The bottom steps are base privacy and consensus, whereas the top steps are compliance and market adoption:

Dusk's token and incentives
The network relies on an in-house asset, DUSK, to create economic incentives alignment. Stakeholders of DUSK participate in the SA consensus and, therefore, have the right to generate blocks and receive fees. DUSK is also implemented to charge transaction fees and to compensate validators and provisioners that ensure the security of the network. In my opinion, this design is reflective of other proof-of-stake systems, except that there is a regulatory twist: to be eligible to produce blocks, participants are subject to compliance rules. This design will promote good behaviour and prevent the malicious actors because a misbehaving node might lose its stake.
Market acceptance and regulatory congruence.
Dusk has been keen to target controlled markets. Capabilities to issue and redeem security instruments, corporate governance functions such as dividend distributions and share issues, and provide auctions to issue private assets are attractive to issuers, banks and exchanges. In contrast to privacy oriented currencies like Monero, Dusk is realistic; it provides partial transparency to allow regulators to perform audits whilst keeping sensitive information concealed. This practice is not in isolation in Europe since regulators are coming up with more explicit laws in digital assets. I feel that compliance features will be a major unlock to institutional adoption.
The SA consensus and the Kadcast network are performance oriented networks. Fast finality decreases the settlement risk, and the multicast architecture of Kadcast can decrease network congestion. Together they form a blockchain environment capable of competing with the available financial infrastructures in speed and reliability.
The chart below illustrates my vision of the trade-off between transparency and privacy; on one side, completely open ledgers such as Ethereum; on the other, completely private systems such as Monero. The balance is the goal of Dusk, as the equilibrium curve depicts.

Challenges and risks

No project is without risks. Dusk uses elaborate cryptography and the security of zero-knowledge proofs should be ensured by subjecting them to intensive scrutiny.  The success of the network is pegged on the acceptance by financial institutions; the acceptance will ensure that the gain of privacy with compliance is real. In addition, regulatory environments may alter.  As Dusk is now in compliance with European standards, new legislations or other standards in other jurisdictions may pose challenges. Recent analysis observed that investors need to take into account the execution risk, competitive stress of established blockchains and uncertainty of regulatory schedules.

Conclusion

In my opinion, Dusk is an intelligent project to balance the transparency of blockchain and the privacy expectations of conventional finance. Its Succinct Attestation consensus, two-way transaction and zero knowledge compliance provide a platform on which issuers can tokenize shares, settle trades immediately and keep them private.  The fact that Dusk focuses on alignment of the regulations also makes it unlike privacy coins that tend to neglect the compliance.  Alongside technical and market risks, the emphasis of the project to address the real problems with the help of the advanced cryptography makes it one of the most intriguing blockchain projects in the field of institutional finance. It is yet to be determined whether Dusk will form the foundation of securities markets of the future, but it does show the possibility of privacy and regulation existing in decentralized systems.

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