Please stop torturing programmers! If Web3 storage isn't as user-friendly as S3, it will forever remain a geek's toy.

The high barrier to entry for Web3 isn't due to its consensus algorithm, but rather its anachronistic development experience. To store an image, you have to understand IPFS hashes, purchase Pinata services, and worry about your gateway's status—this directly discourages 90% of Web2 developers looking to switch. Walrus (WAL)'s smartest move is hiding the complex erasure coding and on-chain verification behind the scenes, providing developers with a user-friendly HTTP API.

You can use familiar PUT and GET requests to read and write data, as easily as calling Amazon S3, but the data is actually running on a decentralized network. This "Web2 experience, Web3 kernel" is what infrastructure should look like; it no longer forces developers to learn obscure underlying protocols, but uses the most universal internet standards to be compatible with existing technology stacks. When an ordinary Java or Python programmer can upload data to the blockchain without having to read a screen full of documentation, Walrus has essentially bridged the final "mile" of the migration from the traditional internet to the crypto world; after all, the best technology should be one that you don't even notice.

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