Walrus Protocol’s Core Idea: Memory as Infrastructure
Walrus Protocol treats storage as first-class infrastructure rather than a peripheral service. Its focus is on efficiently handling large binary files—images, videos, datasets, application state—while ensuring that these files remain available and verifiable for blockchain applications.
This framing matters. In many Web3 architectures, storage is an afterthought, bolted on once scalability issues emerge. Walrus reverses the order. It begins with the assumption that data will be abundant, heavy, and essential, and designs around that reality.
In doing so, Walrus aligns itself with the modular thesis of Web3: that the ecosystem will evolve into a mesh of chains and protocols, each optimized for a specific function. Execution, settlement, storage, and availability need not live on the same layer. They only need to interoperate reliably.
