There is a classic quote that goes: "Remember who you are." Isn't this also the heartfelt wish of every developer locked into big corporations and every project team hijacked by cloud services? In the AI wave of 2026, decentralized storage becomes increasingly critical, and Walrus Protocol is at the core of this "Data Independence Movement"—a storage solution built on the Sui blockchain, specially designed for large AI files.

Simply put, the problem Walrus aims to solve is straightforward: traditional cloud services are either prohibitively expensive or can be shut down at any time. The project adopts distributed Blob storage technology, dispersing massive amounts of unstructured data—training sets, generated videos, model weights—across a global network of nodes through encrypted sharding. This way, data remains highly available and inherently resistant to censorship. The clever part is that each piece of data can be verified on-chain, permanently proving its integrity, eliminating worries about loss or tampering.

The ecosystem's operation relies on the WAL token. With a total supply of 5 billion tokens, it serves dual roles: paying fees and incentivizing node operators. Even more interesting, WAL has an embedded stabilization mechanism to peg its value to real-world currencies, reducing market volatility's impact on users. Holders not only enjoy discounts and governance rights but can also participate in protocol upgrades through community voting—truly participatory rights rather than passive holding.

The data market in the AI era has limitless potential. Developers can easily build data trading platforms based on Walrus, sharing resources to drive ecosystem innovation without being constrained by major platforms. This is genuine data democratization—giving everyone the opportunity to be the master of their own data, rather than eternal workers.

Reclaim your data sovereignty and join this storage revolution.