Retail traders are following the price of the $WAL at $0.12, however there is a larger plot of land going on: Data Gravity is expanding rapidly.
In January 2026, people no longer referred to Walrus as a cool technology, but had begun to view it as a business necessity. Team Liquid was not a deal but the big news. The esports team transferred 250TB of videos and brand content to Walrus.
Why does this matter?
It is not because decents or a lack thereof matter to Esports teams. They are concerned with its price and stability. They have chosen not AWS S3 and gone to Walrus; not only because of cost concerns, but because they are demonstrating that the Red Stuff algorithm can support extremely clear, lots of media without necessarily being bogged down in clear like the previous networks like IPFS.
Humanity Protocol is transferring vulnerable biometric identity data to Walrus, as well. This is an indication that Walrus is not merely a hard drive to Sui. It is being adopted as the default storage layer of verifiable web. People purchase the coin today as a speculative one(WAL) but its real users are beginning to purchase this particular coin as a commodity.