Many people follow Walrus just to follow the trend, but I am different. What truly attracts me is its underlying technology that can rewrite the game rules of the storage industry, combined with the cross-chain actions that have been continuously implemented over the past two years.

Walrus's secret weapon is called Red Stuff— the world's first mass-produced 2D erasure code protocol. It sounds complicated, but it's actually an upgraded data protection scheme. How do traditional storage systems do it? Rely on copying multiple backups. Walrus? It cuts your data into primary and secondary fragments, spreading them into a matrix to form a protective network. As a result, data recovery is ridiculously fast; nodes only need to grab one slice to repair themselves, without having to download nearly all the data like with 1D erasure codes. Bandwidth consumption drops from 100 to 10 instantly, with explosive efficiency.

The most impressive part is the fault-tolerant design. Even if one-third of the nodes go offline or act maliciously, the data remains complete and intact. In terms of security and availability, it’s no less than centralized cloud storage. Official test data shows: write throughput has increased by over 200%. Under multi-disk, multi-core architecture, the system maintains stable concurrency handling for massive requests. This is what Web3 infrastructure should look like.

Even more exciting is the cross-chain aspect. By 2026, Walrus will have achieved native compatibility with Ethereum and Solana. NFT projects in the Ethereum ecosystem want to migrate metadata? No need to change the code, just store it. Teams running AI on Solana are even happier—distributing training datasets across Walrus, and when needed, responding within seconds via cross-link interfaces, drastically reducing development costs. Currently, more than 30 cross-chain projects are using this solution.