Sui, as a high-performance public chain, has attracted many developers with its low latency and Move language. However, having only the computing layer in the complete ecosystem is not enough; data storage must keep up. Walrus was launched in this context—an officially incubated storage solution that, to some extent, carries the expectations of Sui's data infrastructure.

Over the past two months of close observation, Walrus has indeed shown some commendable technical implementations. The team comes from Mysten Labs (the original team behind Sui), which provides unique advantages. Storage objects are directly mapped to on-chain blobs, a dual-token (SUI and WAL) payment mechanism, and smart contracts can directly call storage interfaces—this integrated architecture significantly reduces complexity in DApp development. It sounds very promising, but there are also sharp issues: Walrus is too tightly bound to Sui. If the main chain ecosystem doesn't take off, this storage solution will essentially be useless.

From the application demand perspective, scenarios like NFT metadata, game assets, AI training data, and social content storage theoretically all require decentralized storage. But in reality? There are very few applications running on Walrus. The ideal is appealing, but the ecosystem still needs time to develop.