In the era of monopolized cloud storage by big corporations, our data has become a commodity. Walrus aims to do something different on the Sui chain—a truly decentralized storage network that prioritizes privacy.

The core logic is clear: user-uploaded data is end-to-end encrypted, and only your private key can unlock it. No worries about censorship or leaks; data control is entirely in the hands of the individual. The underlying technology is solid, leveraging Sui's efficient consensus and erasure coding to disperse data across the network. Even if some nodes fail, recovery is instant.

The practicality of this solution is evident: it costs much less than traditional CDN, maintains high speed, and offers particularly stable usability. NFT creators use it to store large images, video platforms store content on it, and AI projects use it for training datasets—covering a wide range of scenarios. Compared to centralized solutions, it not only gains resistance to censorship but also significantly reduces costs.

The $WAL token ties the incentive mechanism together: staking earns rewards and grants participation in protocol governance; a portion of the storage fees paid by users supports the ecosystem, strengthening the token's value. The mainnet is now stable, the community is rapidly growing, and more projects are integrating—this demand release at this point is quite promising.

For creators, it protects their copyrights; for enterprises, it offers an alternative for migrating sensitive data. From a Web3 perspective, data sovereignty should be a fundamental belief, and Walrus uses technology and economic models to make this a reality.