Walrus stood out to me not because it promised a lot, but because it chose to stay focused. In a space where many projects try to solve everything at once, Walrus narrowed its scope to what matters most: decentralized storage and private data handling that actually works.
Built on Sui, its use of erasure coding and blob storage feels grounded and intentional. It handles large files efficiently, keeps costs reasonable, and avoids piling on complexity for the sake of novelty. That kind of discipline is rare and usually comes from experience.
Having watched many ambitious designs fail under real demand, I know how fragile bold ideas can be. Walrus still has challenges ahead around incentives, governance, and long-term adoption. But early signs show it’s already being used for real workloads. If it keeps choosing usability over noise, Walrus may become the kind of infrastructure people depend on without talking about it much.