What always stands out to me about Web3 is this simple truth real apps have to stay online. Not just the blockchain, but everything around it. If a dApp loads but the images, files, or records are missing, users don’t care how decentralized the transaction was. It just feels broken.
That’s the gap Walrus is trying to fill.
Walrus runs on $SUI and focuses on storing the heavy stuff apps actually depend on. Things like media, large files, and long term data. Instead of keeping everything in one place, it uses blob storage and then spreads the data across the network using erasure coding. So even if some nodes go offline, the data can still be recovered.
To me, that reliability is the real value. It removes the need to trust one provider to keep everything alive.
WAL plays its role by connecting staking and governance to the people supporting the network, so storage providers have real incentives to stay consistent as usage grows.
It’s not flashy infrastructure. It’s the kind that quietly keeps things working when it actually matters.
