Walrus, the walrus surviving in the Arctic, relies on fat and community strength to withstand the cold. In the competition of Web3, Walrus has also found its own survival rule—privacy-first decentralized storage.

On the technical level, Walrus uses erasure coding to achieve distributed storage, ensuring that data is both verifiable and confidential. It sounds complex, but the core is simple: data security without relying on centralized trust. As AI and data applications explode in 2026, such reliable data infrastructure will become a true necessity.

Even more interesting is the economic design. Each storage transaction destroys 0.5% of $WAL. This is not just a gimmick—continuous destruction creates real deflationary pressure for the token, changing the supply dynamics.

From theory to practice, it's just one step. Recently, Humanity Protocol migrated millions of credentials to Walrus, which is not just a case but a signal of moving from concept to practicality. As a key part of the Sui full-stack infrastructure system, the value of Walrus has yet to be fully realized. Market pricing for infrastructure often lags behind, and this is the opportunity.