Web3 data storage has always been a tough problem—high costs, low efficiency, poor experience. It wasn't until the emergence of the Walrus protocol that a different path was found.

Mysten Labs has invested heavily in developing this decentralized storage solution, which features a core combo of "erasure coding + blob storage." Backed by $140 million in funding, this scale is also quite competitive in the storage sector.

What’s most eye-catching are the technical indicators. Traditional solutions? Filecoin’s replication factor is about 25 times, Arweave is even more exaggerated, ranging from 100 to 1000 times. Walrus takes a different approach, using innovative error correction code technology to reduce the replication factor to 4-5 times—meaning storage costs drop by 80-100 times.

Doing the math makes it clear. Storing 1TB of data for a year costs $3,500 on Arweave, between $200-$1,000 on Filecoin, but only $50 with Walrus. Fifty dollars—this is close to the price of centralized cloud services, but you still retain full data sovereignty.

Even more impressive is the reliability design. Even if two-thirds of storage nodes fail simultaneously, the system can fully recover data through data fragments. For large-volume data like AI datasets and big media files, this is practically a game-changer. Coupled with deep integration into the Sui ecosystem, the $WAL token is gradually entering the market’s view.