#walrus $WAL The Magic of Erasure Coding and Data Integrity How does Walrus stay efficient without wasting space?

The secret lies in a sophisticated mathematical technique called Erasure Coding. Instead of simply making three or four full copies of a file (which is the old, expensive way), @Walrus 🦭/acc breaks a file into many small fragments and distributes them across a global network of nodes.

Only a small fraction of these fragments is needed to reconstruct the entire original file.

This means that even if a significant percentage of storage nodes go offline or fail simultaneously, your data remains perfectly intact and accessible.

This approach significantly reduces the "storage overhead," making it much cheaper than traditional replication while offering even higher levels of security and reliability.