Walrus has redesigned its storage architecture using dynamic erasure coding to achieve a new on-demand tiered approach. Hot data is stored in near-field storage channels with response times reduced to around 0.5 seconds; cold data is augmented with redundancy to ensure security, resulting in an overall cost savings of 42% compared to a well-known distributed storage solution.

The economic benefits are also impressive. Paying with WAL tokens grants a 20% discount, in other words, the cost to store 10GB of data is now lower than traditional cloud storage services. This "on-demand storage" model breaks the constraints of fixed pricing, and the efficiency gains from hot-cold separation ultimately benefit users' accounts.

Worth a try.