Have you noticed that many projects tell grand stories, but what exactly is the use of the token? It's basically a question mark.

Walrus's approach is a bit different. The token design of this project clearly targets "long-term consumption demand."

It's not governance tokens or airdrop souvenirs, but something truly embedded in the network's operational costs. Storage, availability guarantees, node incentives, network security—all of these depend on it.

And then? This means that as the ecosystem truly develops, demand isn't driven by hype, but by actual usage frequency.

Imagine this scenario:
- On-chain data storage is increasing
- Application calls are becoming more frequent
- Node scale is expanding
- Correspondingly, storage consumption, network usage, and node costs are all rising
- Token locking and consumption are also increasing

This is completely different from projects that "release an NFT and run away."

In simple terms, Walrus relies not on "storytelling to generate hype," but on the supply and demand cycle formed by the business itself. No one feels it now because the application scale hasn't yet expanded.

But once on-chain content truly starts exploding, the storage layer will become a battleground. By then, understanding this logic might be too late, and the price landscape could have already changed.

The key isn't short-term volatility, but that if Web3 really enters a phase of "content explosion + AI data on-chain," such projects won't be optional—they will be essential.