A question worth pondering—centuries of accumulated information on the internet are actually gradually disappearing.

It's not some dramatic disaster, but a more insidious threat. Every day, tens of thousands of web pages, images, and files that once could be accessed become broken links due to server shutdowns or migrations. Academic papers become inaccessible, open-source code repositories vanish, personal creations fade away. This is called "link rot"—a silent collapse of digital memory.

The root cause of this problem is quite obvious: centralized storage is inherently fragile. Data is locked in a company's server, and once that node fails, the information is lost forever. No redundancy, no backup logic—it's like putting all your eggs in one basket.

Contrast this with the "Doomsday Seed Vault" on the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic. It is buried beneath permafrost, storing backup seeds of millions of plant species worldwide. The idea is pure—leaving seeds for the restart of human civilization. Even in the event of a global catastrophe, agricultural biodiversity can survive.

This concept has now been brought into Web3. Take Walrus as an example; its logic is to serve as an internet-era "seed vault." Using a decentralized global network and resilient data encoding (Red Stuff), it fragments important digital content—code, papers, archives, creative works—into multiple copies stored across nodes worldwide. As long as some nodes are alive, data can be fully restored from other locations, "germinating" like seeds.

More importantly, Walrus uses a Content Identifier (CID) system, making links based on the content itself rather than storage location. Do you understand what this means? It means once data is stored, access links are forever valid. No more dead links like "404," no more regrets over digital legacies suddenly disappearing.

Driven by the WAL token, it's not just a storage marketplace but also building a sustainable digital public infrastructure. In an era where information equals civilization, protecting data's eternal life is essentially safeguarding humanity's collective memory and innovative genes. This isn't some grand narrative, but a practical technological choice—using distributed decentralized methods to equip digital civilization with a backup system. Walrus is building something like this ark.