Many Web3 systems look decentralized, but their data often is not. Applications may run on-chain, while the data they depend on is stored off-chain or controlled by a few providers. As long as those providers work, everything feels fine.
But if access is lost, users cannot verify the past.
Walrus was built to remove this risk. It focuses only on data availability, ensuring that once data is published, it remains accessible and verifiable without relying on a single party. Data is encrypted, fragmented, and distributed across many nodes so control is never centralized.
$WAL aligns incentives so operators are rewarded for reliability. Walrus makes sure decentralization still works when it actually matters
