While the Decentralized storage can face difficulties in dealing with the size of large amounts of data because of the high cost of data replication. The Walrus protocol helps solve the problem of dealing with large amounts of data because it does not involve the management of data while storing it. The protocol breaks down large binary files into pieces and spreads them across the world, ensuring that the network does not face scalability issues while dealing with large amounts of information.
The WAL token serves as the key enabler of this distributed infrastructure. It establishes the alignment of incentives of the storage nodes with the long-term integrity of the data. By using economic incentives and verification challenges, the protocol is able to guarantee the honesty of the nodes in the network as well as the retrievability of the data. It establishes a self-healing system in which the token enables the creation of the digital archive.
