Decentralized storage has always been a shortcoming of Web3 infrastructure, with traditional cloud services facing issues such as censorship risk, single points of failure, and high costs. Walrus's exploration on the Sui chain is worth paying attention to—it uses distributed networks and erasure coding technology to offer an alternative possibility for data storage.

The most obvious differences are in cost and durability. Walrus disperses data across multiple nodes through redundancy, so a single node failure does not affect access; its long-term storage economic model is much cheaper than traditional solutions like AWS and Alibaba Cloud, and in some scenarios, it is even close to zero cost. In enterprise application scenarios, this difference is very apparent—especially for cold data storage.

At the technical architecture level, the blob storage mode supports end-to-end encryption and privacy-preserving transaction details, with response times in the seconds when developers upload large files. For privacy-sensitive users such as creative workers and financial transaction participants, this system is quite attractive. The WAL token's staking and governance mechanisms allow holders to participate in network development and provide certain economic incentives.

Currently, Walrus nodes are expanding rapidly, and ecosystem partners are continuously joining, offering the opportunity to become the standard storage layer for the Sui mainnet. From a practical perspective, whether enterprises migrate Web3 applications or individuals store sensitive content, joining at this stage involves the lowest cost and highest security. Privacy, low cost, and reliability—this combination is indeed rare in the storage market.