Centralized cloud storage has its bottlenecks—you've probably encountered them—limited space, cumbersome censorship, and lack of data security. The Walrus protocol offers an alternative path, using decentralized storage to make data storage both efficient and robust.

The core innovation is the Red Stuff encoding algorithm. Instead of directly copying the entire file, it breaks the file into small fragments and disperses them across nodes worldwide. What if a few nodes go down? No problem—the remaining fragments can still reconstruct the complete data. This approach is both cost-effective and reliable, achieving the best of both worlds.

The project is led by the Mysten Labs team, the same group behind building the Sui blockchain, with years of experience in distributed systems. As a result, Walrus naturally integrates with the Sui ecosystem, fully benefiting from Sui's performance advantages.

The application scenarios are actually right around us. Want to back up precious photos? Walrus can do that. Need massive training data for AI models? Leave it to Walrus. Hosting front-end code for decentralized websites? No problem. It is gradually becoming the foundational data layer within the Sui ecosystem, with an even broader coverage in the future.

Security is backed by institutional safeguards. Storage nodes must stake tokens to provide services; malicious behavior results in penalties. The combination of economic incentives and penalties ensures the network's stability. The community also recognizes the technical strength of this system; discussions often focus not on token price fluctuations but on encoding efficiency and the advantages over traditional solutions.