One underrated feature: Walrus is research-backed, not just “buzzwords.”
A lot of crypto projects skip deep technical transparency. Walrus actually has a research paper on arXiv describing its blob storage system and trade-offs—replication overhead, recovery efficiency, and security under churn. That’s not something you see every day. The paper introduces “Red Stuff” as a core technical piece, aiming to make recovery more efficient compared to simpler erasure coding models. You don’t need to read every line to appreciate what this signals: the team is thinking about real network failures, not just ideal conditions. For a storage system, that’s everything. Users don’t care about slogans—they care about whether their data is there when they need it. Technical depth is a quiet advantage.