the creator economy is currently held hostage by centralized platforms that can demonetize or delete channels at a whim for years the promise of decentralized streaming was held back by one major bottleneck the cost of storing high definition video and audio on chain was simply too high for any scalable application @walrusprotocol has finally solved this trilemma through its revolutionary red stuff erasure coding
unlike legacy storage networks that require expensive full node replication walrus splits media files into smaller shards distributed across the network this reduces storage overhead by 5x compared to standard methods allowing creators to host 4k video streams and lossless audio libraries directly on the blockchain for the first time in history a creator can own their entire distribution pipeline from the content file to the payment rail $WAL is not just storage it is the censorship resistant broadcasting tower of the future web3 internet
