🚨 In recent weeks, core media and top KOLs have intensively reported on the significant milestones of Walrus Protocol 🦭: Team Liquid has fully migrated over 250TB of esports archives (match videos, behind-the-scenes footage, etc.) to Walrus, becoming the largest single dataset migration case to date;
Grayscale launches Sui ecological trust, Binance creator activity distributes 300,000 WAL, Upbit resumes WAL trading, WAL price rebounds by more than 13%; a16z's 2026 outlook particularly mentions privacy and verifiable data infrastructure.
The core features and advantages of Walrus are particularly prominent:
Ultimate cost efficiency: adopting the original 'Red Stuff' two-dimensional erasure coding, the replication factor is only 4-5x (far lower than Arweave/Filecoin's 100x+), TB-level storage costs are only a fraction of AWS, 1GB annual storage requires only a minimal $WAL, suitable for large-scale AI datasets, game assets, and 4K video archives.
Ultra-high resilience and self-healing capabilities: Data sharding distributed across global nodes, allowing complete recovery through erasure coding even if 2/3 of the nodes fail, with 99.99% availability + self-healing mechanism, no single point of failure, no censorship risk, far surpassing the vulnerabilities of centralized clouds.
Programmable Blobs Revolution: Each blob as a Sui smart contract object, supporting token gating, automatic expiration, royalty sharing, version control, and NFT monetization, turning static data into composable on-chain assets.
Privacy Shield (Seal Integration): On-chain encryption + fine-grained access control, supports GDPR compliance, perfectly suitable for AI training datasets, corporate confidential documents, and decentralized identities (Humanity Protocol has migrated millions of credentials). @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #Walrus
Infrastructure for the AI Era: Provides verifiable provenance and cryptographic proof, supports trustless data markets, AI agents can access tamper-proof datasets in real-time, forming a complete loop with Sui Stack (data layer + privacy + execution + payment).
WAL token economics highly incentivized: Paying storage fees, node staking rewards, governance voting, and burning based on usage to achieve deflation. Over 1 billion has been staked. With acceleration from Team Liquid, Talus AI, Pudgy Penguins, and others, Walrus is moving from the 'proof of usage phase' to mainstream infrastructure.
Developers can directly integrate using SDK (TypeScript/Rust), reducing costs by 80-99%. In the year 2026, where data is the new oil, Walrus is the cornerstone of Sui ecosystem data sovereignty and AI, strongly recommended to pay attention!#Walrus #Sui #WAL @Walrus 🦭/acc