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Storage Costs Kill Decentralization Slogans! 🤯

This is pure macro analysis on how priced primitives fundamentally change product architecture, not just philosophy. When storage isn't free, teams stop treating data like confetti. The moment a PM asks why a massive blob is on $WAL instead of a cheap bucket, the abstract talk ends. Budgets demand explainable tradeoffs.

Walrus Protocol's erasure coding and term-based commitment visible on Sui forces teams to define what truly matters. Data gets ruthlessly sorted. If it's expensive to lose or retrieve at the wrong time, it gets tiered. Hot data moves off the durable layer for aggressive caching and proximity serving.

This isn't about philosophy; it's about budgeting reliability. When asset loading fails at launch, it's reputational damage, not a technical bug. Priced storage forces teams to define "shipped" by the network's actual commitment window. $WAL becomes the durable backstop only for data teams genuinely cannot afford to lose. The real test is whether predictable $WAL costs make it the default durable layer or just another line item they constantly renegotiate.

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