Every chain stores its "crown jewels" somewhere:
NFT metadata
Game assets
RWA documentation
Protocol state
That "somewhere" is often the weakest link. Corrupt the storage, compromise everything above it.
@Walrus 🦭/acc doesn't just replicate data—it engineers Byzantine fault tolerance for large-scale storage.
The Core Architecture:
Red Stuff Encoding: 2D erasure coding for high resilience with 4.5-5x overhead (not full replication)
Proof-of-Availability: Continuous verification like a margin call—storage nodes must prove they hold data
Sui Control Plane: Blockchain-enforced incentives and penalties for honest/dishonest behaviour
Why This Matters for $WAL Investors:
Most storage networks fail through slow degradation, not spectacular hacks. Providers leave, incentives weaken, reliability decays silently.
Walrus treats retention as security liquidity. Their staking/economics sustain an honest majority, making Byzantine collusion economically irrational.
The Trader's Lens:
WAL isn't a "storage play"—it's an infrastructure security play
Track provider retention like you'd track exchange liquidity
Evaluate the protocol's worst-case assumptions, not its marketing
When chains store billions in value, the underlying storage layer becomes systemic infrastructure. @Walrus 🦭/acc is building for that reality.
