Storage as a Market Primitive, Not Just a Utility
Most conversations around decentralized storage focus on price or permanence. Walrus reframes it entirely — storage as a data market infrastructure. Instead of selling raw storage like a commodity, Walrus makes storage programmable, verifiable, and monetizable through Sui smart contracts and token-based economics.
Storage capacity becomes an on-chain object that can be referenced, priced, and enforced. Users pay a fixed amount upfront for a defined period, which is then distributed over time to storage nodes, with costs stabilized against fiat using WAL tokens. Nodes and delegators stake WAL to secure the network, while slashing penalizes poor performance, protecting users and adding deflationary pressure.
The result is storage developers and users can rely on long term, not a best-effort service. It moves data custody toward a sustainable economic layer of the stack, rather than a fragile cost center.
