Why Are We Forcing Blockchains to Store Blobs When Walrus Exists? Let's check out from this post.
Most blockchains were never meant to be the internet’s hard drive. They use full replication so every validator stores the same state, which makes sense when the data is actually being computed on balances, contract state, logic. But when my app only needs to store and fetch blobs images, videos, PDFs, datasets this becomes pure overhead. It’s like asking 500 people to keep the same giant folder just so one person can download a file later.
That’s why decentralized storage networks showed up. Systems like IPFS proved you can get censorship resistance and reliability without making everyone store everything. You replicate data on a smaller set of nodes, so even if some go down, the file still survives.
Walrus is designed in a way that it keep the chain focused on verification and coordination and it handle large data in a way that’s efficient, resilient, and built for real workloads. For me, it’s simple to understand the logic that don’t make the blockchain carry extra data it doesn’t need and walrus certainly has that inbuilt feature.