From Storage to Data Markets

Traditional decentralized storage protocols focus on persistence and censorship resistance. Walrus expands the scope. Its vision is not simply to store data, but to enable markets around it. In this sense, Walrus treats data as something closer to capital than content.

This shift matters. Storage answers the question of where data lives. Markets answer the question of how data moves, who benefits, and under what conditions. By enabling data markets, Walrus positions itself as a connective layer between producers and consumers of information, whether they are AI developers, enterprises, or decentralized applications.

Conceptually, this places Walrus within the modular Web3 thesis. Just as execution and settlement layers federate responsibilities across chains, data markets require a layer that can coordinate ownership, access, and compensation without collapsing into centralization. Walrus attempts to be that layer—a quiet marketplace embedded in the infrastructure itself.#walrus $WAL