To be honest, in the past two years, new projects have been growing explosively, and most people just take a quick look and move on. But the Walrus project is one of the few that deserves a closer look—not because it has flashy storytelling, but because it hits the real pain points of Web3.

Currently, the biggest bottleneck in the on-chain ecosystem boils down to data issues. The industry standard approaches are basically two: either endure high costs and low efficiency by storing data on-chain, or settle for centralized solutions. Sounds contradictory, right? Promoting Web3 on one hand while using Web2 experiences on the other.

Walrus’s logic is actually quite straightforward: data doesn’t have to be forcibly stored on the main chain, but it must be verifiable. In other words, store data in a trusted way so that on-chain applications can confirm that "this data is authentic, unaltered, and accessible." It may not sound very sexy, but for developers, it solves a major problem.

Imagine applications like gaming, social media, and AI—these are the ones that truly consume bandwidth. Their biggest costs aren’t transaction fees but the data itself. Whoever can build this foundational infrastructure solidly will have the opportunity to become the backbone of the next generation of applications.

What attracts me to Walrus is this: it doesn’t overhype a "future utopia," but instead pragmatically fills the missing piece in Web3. Let’s not talk about $WAL’s short-term market performance; the market has its own logic. But looking at the project architecture and execution direction, it seems more like a patient long-termist rather than one that relies on a wave of hype to succeed.