Remember when Walrus first launched on the Sui ecosystem in March this year? The entire ecosystem was far less active than it is now. During that time, many people were pessimistic, thinking that the storage sector was a red ocean with fierce competition, and few were optimistic about its prospects. But after closely examining its design approach, I found many distinctive features.

Most storage solutions on the market pursue versatility, but Walrus has taken a more interesting path — it aims for privacy protection, compliance considerations, and has also been deeply optimized for the Sui chain itself. This combination truly creates a differentiated approach.

Over the past more than six months, I’ve seen its node count multiply several times, and the ecosystem reserve fund has been supporting more and more developers to participate. The number of enterprise users is also steadily increasing. Especially after Sui launched the Mysticeti v2 upgrade, on-chain transaction latency has significantly decreased, and Walrus’s storage interaction experience has improved accordingly. More projects on Sui are now choosing it as their storage solution, and the overall ecosystem’s stickiness continues to strengthen.

As someone who has held it from the early days, honestly, it would have been a shame to be scared off by short-term fluctuations back then. Walrus’s growth isn’t built on marketing hype or hype-driven orders, but on the accumulation of each new node and every actual storage interaction, bit by bit. When the Sui ecosystem fully explodes, the value of infrastructure like Walrus will truly be re-evaluated by the market.