Decentralized applications over many years were predominantly text based. The chain was slow and too costly to store big picture files, videos or game files. By 2026, Walrus will transform to be the first real decentralized content delivery network (dCDN).
Less efficient systems like Arweave were interested in storing information permanently and pay $ once. Walrus is concerned about financial saving. It is an erasure coding technique that allows nodes to retain massive files with the minimal amount of additional space. This renders the storage far cheaper hence now a decentralized version of YouTube, Instagram, or Netflix is possible.
Walrus renders the storage to be a dynamic, rather than an inert, media layer. Now users are able to prepare rich and immersive applications, with the front end as decentralized as the back-end smart contracts. Walrus will bring the next generation of Web3: a Web that feels and looks like Web2 but remains entirely independent and uncensored through the reduction of the heavy data.