Walrus project has built a complete DeFi ecosystem around the WAL token. As a native asset, WAL is not only a medium of exchange on the platform but also the core driving force of the entire protocol—users use it to conduct secure and private transactions, and to consume and interact within various dApps. More importantly, holding WAL grants governance rights within the ecosystem, allowing participation in major protocol decisions; staking WAL can provide resource support to the network and earn corresponding incentives. This design embodies the core concept of "privacy first," with WAL serving as the key carrier of this philosophy.

On the technical level, Walrus chooses to operate on the Sui blockchain, leveraging its high performance and low latency features to meet storage and transaction needs. The storage solution combines "erasure coding + blob storage"—erasure coding splits raw data into multiple shards and generates redundant shards, so even if some shards are lost or damaged, the original data can be recovered through algorithms, ensuring high fault tolerance; blob storage is specifically optimized for large unstructured data, capable of efficiently handling various files. This architecture makes decentralized storage both secure and reliable, while maintaining high efficiency, creating a privacy-friendly Web3 infrastructure.