Storage has always been an unnoticed aspect in Web3. Most people still think in traditional terms: pay-per-use, periodic renewals, fix it yourself when it breaks, bad luck if you lose it. It seems like infrastructure, but in reality, it's still far from a "product," let alone integrated into the DeFi ecosystem.

Walrus's approach is completely counterintuitive—it doesn't treat data as files but as asset objects managed by smart contracts. Registration, rights confirmation, transfer, automatic renewal, on-chain governance... all these operations are completed within a rule-based framework. The key is, this advantage isn't achieved through "cheapness," but through an architecture of "objectification + verifiable processes."

The underlying change is actually quite hardcore. Walrus first maps storage space as an object on Sui, then anchors the Blob's metadata and proofs in Sui's control layer, so that Move contracts can operate on storage just like they do with other resources. According to official documentation, the user interacts first with Walrus's Sui contract to obtain a storage resource—essentially a storage quota of "Y capacity reserved within X time." The crucial point: this quota itself exists as an object on Sui, inherently possessing attributes like programmability, transferability, and tradability.

Once you understand it as a "resource object," many things that were previously impossible suddenly become smooth. This isn't a small iteration; it's a complete paradigm upgrade.