In the decentralized storage sector, cost and efficiency often become the fatal opponents. Walrus($WAL), through deep integration of Red Stuff's 2D erasure coding technology with the Sui public chain, breaks this deadlock.

The pain points of traditional storage solutions are obvious—Arweave adopts a full network replication strategy, leading to high redundancy rates. Walrus took a different approach: dividing data into tiny sliver units and distributing them using a 2D matrix. This way, maintaining only 4 to 5 times redundancy can ensure data security, even if 5 nodes fail simultaneously, allowing complete recovery. From a cost perspective, the difference is significant—Walrus's storage price is only one-fifth of traditional cloud storage, making it hundreds of times cheaper than Arweave. Write throughput can also be increased by over 200%.

But this is just a technical optimization. The truly interesting part is that Walrus uses Move smart contracts on the Sui chain to add programmable capabilities to stored data. You can dynamically update data, flexibly manage permissions, and customize value distribution—completely breaking free from the traditional storage limitation of "permanent lock after one upload."

Coupled with Pipe Network's CDN integration, data read/write latency is controlled within 50 milliseconds. This metric is a real necessity for high-frequency scenarios like AI model training, blockchain game interactions, and rich media applications.

The effects of this combined approach are evident: over 14 million accounts have participated, carrying more than 800TB of encoded data. In the competition for Web3 infrastructure, Walrus has already gained many chips.