سوي Rapidly emerged in the public chain sector due to its high throughput and low latency characteristics، one of the most noteworthy supporting facilities is storage infrastructure like Walrus.

Its positioning is very clear — not just a file storage network، but building a complete decentralized storage economy through the $WAL token. Applications such as DeFi، private transactions، and dApp development can all be built on it.

How to understand this at the technical level؟ Walrus uses erasure coding technology to shard and disperse data storage. This brings a benefit: even if some nodes go offline، data remains complete and recoverable. Compared to centralized cloud storage solutions، costs can be several times lower، while also avoiding single point of failure risks and censorship. This is especially attractive for DeFi projects — user asset records، transaction history، and on-chain media content can all be stored، without having to worry about the cloud service provider’s attitude.

The design of the $WAL token is even more worth dissecting. It carries three roles: governance rights (voting on protocol parameters and fee distribution)، staking rights (locking $WAL to operate storage nodes and earn network rewards)، and value capture (protocol fee buybacks and burns or used for liquidity incentives). This mechanism makes $WAL not just a speculative asset، but a rights token contributing to the ecosystem. The formation of a strong security consensus also comes from this positive cycle of staking and rewards.

In terms of privacy protection، users can enable end-to-end encryption to store sensitive data، fully controlling access permissions. This provides strong support for applications requiring data privacy (such as certain DeFi strategies، personal financial records). The entire design concept is: storage infrastructure → token incentives → ecosystem applications → network effects، forming a tightly linked cycle.