Arweave has regained market attention with the newly launched computing layer AO, with token price and popularity rising in tandem. Now Sui is also not willing to fall behind; the official team Mysten Labs has introduced its own decentralized storage solution—Walrus (token: $WAL), aiming to create a new wave in the storage sector.

**Background and Team Strength**

Walrus is not a small community project but an official product of Mysten Labs. Most team members come from Meta's early blockchain initiatives, with a solid technical foundation. The official positioning of Walrus is "robust and adaptable like an elephant," with core selling points centered around reliability and risk resistance.

**Relationship and Positioning with Sui**

Walrus uses Sui as its coordination and accounting layer—storing data such as storage information and payment records on-chain with Sui. However, this does not mean applications must be developed on Sui to use Walrus. More importantly, Walrus has its own token economy system, $WAL, which does not directly consume SUI, giving it the operational space of an independent ecosystem.

**Current Pain Points of Storage Solutions**

Current mainstream storage solutions each have their shortcomings. Filecoin and Arweave ensure data security through multi-replica redundancy—each file needs to be stored in dozens of copies, directly increasing storage costs. Another approach relies on complex coding techniques (such as Reed-Solomon erasure coding) to reduce redundancy, but the technical barriers and maintenance costs are significant. The emergence of Walrus aims to find a better balance among these solutions.