Walrus Does not Reward Storage. It Penalizes Lying.
Most storage networks reward good behavior and hope honesty persists.
Walrus assumes nodes will eventually cheat and designs around that.
Storage operators don’t gain trust, reputation, or visibility. They face constant proof challenges. Miss one, and penalties trigger automatically. Intent does not matter.
That flips incentives. Reliability isn’t social. It’s mechanical.
Walrus isn’t optimistic infrastructure it’s adversarial by design.