When it comes to the infrastructure of the Sui network, most people only focus on the TPS and finality of the public chain itself, but few notice an equally important role — the decentralized storage layer.

Walrus is such an entity. It is a storage protocol officially incubated by Mysten Labs, with a clear ambition: to become the native data storage foundation of Sui. You can think of Sui as a performance monster-level computer, and Walrus is the essential hard drive for this computer.

The most interesting part is its technical approach. Unlike the old method relying on physical backups like Filecoin, Walrus introduces a cutting-edge technology called "Red Stuff" — a 2D erasure coding technique. This is not some flashy concept hype; the actual effect is very hardcore: storage costs can be reduced to a fraction of competitors, and read speeds are fast enough to smoothly run 4K videos or large-scale blockchain games, completely avoiding the awkward situation where traditional Web3 storage "can only store but not use."

Why is it so important to pay attention to Walrus now? With 2026 approaching, the data generated by AI models, full-chain games, NFT assets, and other things will grow explosively. All these massive amounts of data will ultimately need a place to go, and Walrus is almost the only choice. When the Sui ecosystem truly prospers, how high the value imagination space for the WAL token will be — just imagine it yourself.