Privacy and storage are becoming the new focal point of Web3 competition. The Walrus protocol leverages the high-performance advantages of the Sui blockchain to build a complete system of "private transactions + decentralized storage". As the ecosystem's native token, WAL serves as both a governance tool and carries dual functions in privacy interactions and data storage.

The technical innovation is quite solid. Adopting a combination of erasure coding and blob storage, the protocol splits large files and distributes them across decentralized network nodes, achieving dual benefits: significantly reducing costs while naturally gaining censorship resistance through distributed architecture. This design is particularly friendly to enterprise users — essentially finding a truly decentralized alternative path for traditional cloud storage.

Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent compliance, Walrus's balancing act is worth noting. Users can stake WAL to earn returns and participate in governance to influence protocol evolution. As institutional capital's attention on privacy DeFi continues to heat up — with predictions suggesting 2026 will be a turning point — Walrus, leveraging Sui's concurrency advantages and innovative storage architecture, has the opportunity to become a core player in this track, providing Web3 users with infrastructure that combines security, privacy, and earning characteristics.