Web3 has moved from hype to practical implementation, and everyone suddenly realizes three urgent issues: where to safely store data, how to protect privacy, and how to monetize stored value. The Walrus protocol and its token WAL are addressing these pain points.

As a native project on the Sui blockchain, Walrus did something interesting—it didn't complicate things. Instead, it combined decentralized storage and privacy finance in a straightforward way, providing a set of reliable and user-friendly infrastructure for Web3 users at all levels. In simple terms, making technology no longer the exclusive domain of tech enthusiasts.

Why do traditional cloud drives make people so unhappy? Expensive fees, capacity limits, data loss being considered user’s bad luck, content being arbitrarily censored—users have no say over their own data. Walrus took a different approach—a distributed storage architecture. It encrypts large files first, then breaks them into many fragments, which are scattered across countless nodes in the network. Imagine your data now wearing a "redundancy insurance coat"; even if some nodes crash, the fragments on other nodes can still piece together the complete file. Costs are lowered, censorship can't delete your data, and files won't be lost.

The specific scenarios are easy to understand: individual users don’t need to worry about their precious photos and videos being deleted, developers can safely upload massive datasets for AI training, and enterprises can confidently back up business data.

Regarding the WAL token, it needs to protect privacy while empowering the ecosystem. It’s particularly thoughtful in handling transaction privacy.