When you shift your focus from the Walrus product itself to the macro layout of its creator Mysten Labs, you will see a grander story.

Walrus is by no means an isolated existence. It is one of the core pillars of Mysten Labs' development of the next-generation Web3 decentralized infrastructure ecosystem.

How ambitious is Mysten Labs? It’s far more than just a high-performance blockchain. The company aims to dominate all foundational layers including execution, storage, consensus, and communication. Breaking it down: Sui handles execution and consensus, continuously optimized through projects like Mysticeti; Walrus focuses on verifiable large-capacity storage; DeepBook provides native liquidity and order books; solutions like zkLogin and SEAL create seamless and secure entry experiences for users.

Within the entire system, Walrus plays the critical role of the "data foundation." Why is this so important? Because this new ecosystem will generate massive amounts of data—transaction records, game asset states, AI models—all within it. Walrus’s responsibility is to ensure that this data can be stored and accessed in a decentralized, programmable, and cost-effective manner.

Even more interesting is that Walrus is expected to become a bridge for the Sui ecosystem’s outward expansion. As a universal storage protocol, it can be used by applications outside of Sui, and even by other blockchains. Every external integration actually strengthens Sui’s ecosystem influence.