Most “decentralized storage” projects still rely on heavy replication or trust assumptions. Walrus is different.
Built on Sui, @Walrus 🦭/acc uses advanced erasure coding to keep storage costs near 5x (not 100x+), while remaining resilient even if ⅔ of nodes fail or act maliciously. That’s not marketing that’s real Byzantine fault tolerance.
What really stands out is the economics:
• Storage paid upfront, distributed over time → predictable costs
• Delegated staking secures data availability
• Slashing + penalties discourage bad actors
• $WAL is deflationary by design, with burning tied directly to real network usage
This isn’t just storage for NFTs. Walrus is positioning itself as data infrastructure for the AI era: verifiable datasets, model weights, provenance, and availability guarantees on-chain.
If AI needs trustworthy data rails, and Web3 needs scalable storage, Walrus sits right at that intersection. Quietly one of the more important infra plays on Sui right now.