Everyone says there's no place like home. In the wave of AI and Web3 in 2026, Walrus Protocol is becoming the "home" for data developers—a decentralized storage project built on the Sui blockchain, specifically optimized for large AI files.

Ultimately, Walrus's core competitiveness lies in its distributed Blob storage technology. It encrypts and shards massive unstructured data such as AI training sets, generated videos, and model weights, then disperses them across nodes worldwide for storage. The benefits of this approach are obvious—high availability is guaranteed, and resistance to censorship is greatly enhanced. Compared to traditional cloud services with single points of failure and high costs, Walrus offers on-chain verification and referencing, making data permanently provable and complete. Users don't need to worry about data loss or tampering.

The WAL token is at the heart of the ecosystem. With a total supply of 5 billion, its main uses are paying for storage fees and incentivizing operation nodes. The project also designed a stabilization mechanism to anchor the token's value to real-world currency, avoiding market volatility from affecting actual usage costs. Holders of WAL not only receive storage discounts but can also participate in governance voting, directly influencing protocol upgrades and new feature development.

From a developer's perspective, this project opens up many possibilities. Building data markets becomes easier, resource sharing can drive ecosystem innovation, and there's no need to rely on a single large platform. For ordinary users, this means data sovereignty is in their own hands, with enhanced security and privacy protection.

The story of decentralized storage continues, and Walrus is writing its own chapter on the new Sui blockchain.