Walrus Exposes the Illusion of Decentralized Web3 Backends
If your backend can be shut down your dApp is not truly decentralized.
Here is what I have found: A lot of "decentralized" apps in the Web3 world still lean on centralized backends for the important stuff.
Things like APIs media servers, analytics and user data. They often sit on regular servers that anyone can censor, mess with or just shut down and you would not even notice from the blockchain side.
Walrus takes on this problem head-on. It runs on Sui and gives you truly decentralized blob storage. Here you can actually check that your data is available and has not been tampered with no need to just hope for the best. Instead of crossing your fingers and trusting some off-chain service you get cryptographic proof that your data's there and still intact.
From my research into censorship resistance this distinction matters. A smart contract can be immutable but if the data it references disappears the application effectively breaks. Walrus ensures that storage failures are visible and verifiable rather than silent and centralized.
What is compelling is how this changes threat models. Developers no longer need to trust hosting providers, CDNs or proprietary storage layers. Data becomes a shared verifiable resource rather than a private liability.
In my assessment this is where decentralization becomes real not at the UI or execution layer but in the data that applications depend on every day.
Walrus is not just adding another storage option. It's removing the illusion that decentralization can exist without decentralized data.
Do you think most Web3 users underestimate how centralized today's dApps really are?
