In the Web3 era, data is no longer just information; it has fundamentally become a core asset. However, the current centralized storage solutions are increasingly vulnerable: exorbitant costs, single points of failure, arbitrary censorship, and lack of user data sovereignty have caused significant losses for many projects and users.

The Walrus protocol was born to directly address these pain points. It is a decentralized storage network running on the Sui blockchain, specifically designed for large files. It employs innovative erasure coding technology combined with a distributed node network to disperse data storage, making it secure, efficient, and cost-effective. It fully realizes an infrastructure resistant to censorship and ensures data is never lost.

What makes Walrus the best? Its costs are incredibly low. Compared to centralized cloud services like AWS and Google Cloud, it is often several times cheaper. Walrus leverages a decentralized competitive mechanism to drive storage prices to the bottom, while also providing stronger durability and availability.

Technologically, it’s also outstanding. Data is split into multiple fragments and distributed across hundreds of independent nodes worldwide. Even if some nodes go offline or are attacked, the data can be fully reconstructed through coding algorithms. This design fundamentally eliminates single point of failure risks and naturally counters censorship—no centralized entity can delete or tamper with your files.

From another perspective, Walrus is tailor-made for the AI era. With the rapid rise of large model training, on-chain AI agents, and autonomous worlds, massive amounts of unstructured data (videos, images, datasets) have become a necessity. Walrus makes the storage and retrieval of these data types a reality.