The arena of decentralized storage has been quite turbulent lately. In this field, Walrus Protocol has carved out a new approach with a revolutionary technical architecture. As its native token, WAL is undertaking an ambitious mission—to build an efficient, secure, and programmable storage ecosystem.

The most telling evidence is still those cold, hard numbers.

Walrus uses the Red-Stuff encoding technology, which completely rewrites the cost ledger of decentralized storage. Did you know? Just a 4-5x replication factor can ensure high data availability. Compare this to traditional players: Filecoin requires 25x redundancy, Arweave is even more extreme, needing 100-1000x. Just this alone is revolutionary.

Let's do the math: how much does 1TB of data cost per year? Arweave needs $3,500, Filecoin fluctuates between $200-$1,000, and Walrus only costs $50. The cost difference reaches 70-100 times. And this isn’t about lowering security standards—even if two-thirds of storage nodes fail simultaneously, data can still be recovered.

Even more interesting, Walrus has introduced a new feature called "programmable storage." With the support of the Sui ecosystem, it’s not just a cold data warehouse, but a storage engine that can directly integrate into application logic and be flexibly called upon. This kind of imagination space is something traditional storage protocols have never even considered.