Red Stuff’s efficiency has a direct impact on WAL’s economic dynamics. Because the algorithm minimizes redundant storage through erasure coding, the network requires fewer total bytes stored to achieve the same availability guarantees.
Lower storage overhead means lower aggregate storage costs, which in turn reduces the amount of WAL required per unit of data. This does not weaken WAL’s role. Instead, it shifts value from wasteful replication toward efficient coordination. WAL demand becomes tied to actual usefulness and uptime rather than artificial scarcity created by inefficiency.@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL
