Have you ever thought about this—every moment we post on social media, every photo we share, might someday be as difficult for future generations to understand as trying to read the diaries of our ancestors from a thousand years ago.

This phenomenon of "information loss" across time is replaying at an unprecedented speed in the digital age. What Walrus Protocol aims to do is to serve as a "Rosetta Stone" for the digital era, enabling future generations to understand our time.

**The Inspiration from the Rosetta Stone**

Why is the Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, so important? Because it bears inscriptions in three scripts: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Greek. It is this **multi-layered backup and cross-verification** design that allowed deciphering a civilization lost for thousands of years—if one script is lost, others can still help restore the meaning.

Today’s centralized internet faces a similar crisis. Platform shutdowns, service migrations, outdated technology—all can lead to certain data becoming completely unreadable. Is there a way to solve this problem?

The answer from Walrus Protocol is: to draw inspiration from the wisdom of the Rosetta Stone. It employs **decentralized storage** and **innovative redundancy encoding schemes** to distribute data across thousands of nodes worldwide. Even if some nodes’ data become difficult to access due to technological changes, the entire system can reconstruct the complete information through data fragments stored on other nodes. This guarantees the permanence and verifiability of data.

**Not Just Storage, But Also Rules**

What’s even smarter is that—Walrus not only stores static data but also integrates **on-chain programmable logic**. In other words, it stores not just the data itself but also the rules for accessing, verifying, and even interpreting that data. It’s like leaving future archaeologists a complete "translation toolkit," not just ancient texts.

Therefore, the WAL token incentivizes maintaining a constantly self-verifying, eternally enduring **public archive of human digital civilization**.

**Where Is the True Value of Data?**

In the age of information explosion, we generate vast amounts of data every day. But true value isn’t just about how much we create; it’s about how much valuable content can pass through the river of time to reach the future. That’s the key. Walrus Protocol is working hard to create that key to the future.