@Walrus š¦/acc Walrus uses 4.5Ć storage overhead because churn isn't an edge case, it's the actual operating condition. Nodes drop, committees rotate, and most erasure-coded systems that look efficient in demos turn into bandwidth disasters during recovery. Walrus designed for that reality upfront, treating node departure as baseline so healing doesn't scale with full blob size every time something breaks.
The architecture ties economic accountability to on-chain contracts, making disputes verifiable instead of argued. WAL compensates operators who maintain availability across epoch transitions, with penalties for rapid stake shifts since delegation volatility forces expensive data migration. Mainnet launched March 2025 with over a hundred nodes, and the real test happens during simultaneous committee changes, reads, and writes.
WAL
--
--