Walrus has introduced new features right after the mainnet launch.

On March 27 of last year, the project officially launched the mainnet and immediately started a community airdrop plan. The official setup is quite interesting — out of the total supply of 5 billion WAL, 10% is allocated directly for community incentives. Of these, 4% was airdropped to early participants on the day of mainnet launch, mostly users who were active during the testing phase, uploading data or participating in governance. The remaining 6% is released in phases, directly linked to your ongoing participation in storage, governance, or ecosystem building.

This approach is a bit different. It’s not the common “token snapshot” airdrop model, but rather an incentive design tied to engagement. Activities like testing on the testnet, uploading data, staking WAL, or participating in community events will directly influence how much airdrop you can receive later. This is a growth incentive strategy for early projects — truly rewarding those who contribute to the ecosystem, rather than blindly distributing tokens to all wallets.

What’s even more noteworthy is the real state of user growth. After the mainnet went live, over 105,000 accounts flooded into the network. These accounts are not just data bloat; most are engaged in real data writing, storage operations, or resource browsing. Why say that? Because Walrus’s storage mechanism is designed to be very strict — to write blob data on-chain, you must pay real money in SUI and WAL. So, these over 105,000 active accounts represent genuine on-chain interactions, not bot-driven data flooding.

The pace of ecosystem development is also rapid. Currently, 67 projects have announced or completed integration of Walrus as the underlying storage layer. These projects cover various application scenarios such as NFT communities, game asset storage, media content archiving, etc., indicating that Walrus is not just a conceptual product but has been recognized by actual application developers.

The most telling data is the scale of storage. The mainnet has already stored over 14.5 million blob data blocks, with each blob averaging about 2.16MB. This means a massive amount of content is being uploaded, sharded, verified, and stored daily. Data continues to accumulate, and ecosystem use cases are constantly expanding — a true growth signal driven by real applications.

Looking at the decentralized storage sector, most projects are just storytelling. Walrus, on the other hand, presents a growth path driven by the community and data. From innovative airdrop mechanisms, to genuine user participation, to rapid ecosystem expansion, the entire logic feels more solid.