The @Walrus 🦭/acc RFP program started in 2025. It had a goal to make programmable storage work better in Web3 ecosystems. The Walrus RFP program did this by giving money to people who were making tools and connections that would help. The program wanted to get results that would make it easier to store and use data on the blockchain. The Walrus RFP program made some progress. It helped make decentralized storage a normal part of applications. The Walrus RFP program is really helping to make this happen.
The thing that really stood out was that we got developer tools, like SDKs that make it easier for people who build things to work with Walrus storage. These tools made it simpler to upload and organize data and to get it back when you need it all while keeping your information private and safe. Now developers can add storage features into their smart contracts without having to do a lot of extra work. This makes it easier for small companies and teams to try out ideas, for apps that use a lot of data and are decentralized like the ones that use Walrus storage.
One big thing that happened was that we got money to work on middleware integrations that connect Walrus with the execution and identity layers.
These connections let storage react to things that happen on the chain, which makes it possible to do things like saving files when we have to keeping data for as long as we are required to and doing computations off the chain that can be checked.
Now storage is not something that holds things it is actually a part of how the application works, which is a big change, for Walrus.
The RFP program also helped with tools that looked at how storage was used and how well it worked. These tools also helped teams see how money they were saving. This information is very important for companies where they need to know exactly what is going on and be able to check everything. With numbers the RFP program teams can make sure data gets to where it needs to go in the best way possible across all the storage areas and nodes. The RFP program is really useful, for this.
The Walrus program did a lot more than just provide tools. It actually made the entire Walrus developer ecosystem stronger. The people who got grants did some great things. They made documentation and reference implementations and open source libraries that the whole community can still use.
When different teams worked together on the Walrus program they shared what they knew and did not do the things over and over. This was very helpful, for the Walrus developer ecosystem. The Walrus program really helped the Walrus community.
Overall the Walrus RFP program outcomes from late 2025 demonstrate how focused grants can drive real infrastructure innovation. By empowering developers with better tools and integrations Walrus moved programmable storage closer to mainstream adoption and set the foundation for scalable data driven Web3 applications.
