Technical Overview: How Walrus Efficiently Stores Data
Walrus is not just an ordinary storage system — it leverages advanced technologies to reduce costs and increase efficiency compared to older solutions like IPFS or Arweave.
Instead of uploading the entire file to the chain at a high cost, the protocol does the following:
1. Splits the large file into smaller parts.
2. Adds error correction slices (erasure coding) to ensure recovery of any missing part.
3. Distributes the parts across multiple nodes.
This method makes Walrus cheaper and more flexible when dealing with large files, and it relies on a Byzantine fault tolerance mechanism to ensure data remains available even when many nodes fail.
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