I stumbled onto @Walrus 🦭/acc ($WAL ) after a random conversation where someone mentioned “decentralized storage on Sui,” and I realized I had no idea what that actually meant. So I went digging, half expecting it to be another overhyped DeFi token with a shiny website and not much else. But the more I read, the more it felt like something a bit different.From what I’ve seen, the whole idea behind #Walrus is pretty straightforward: big files are broken into pieces, those pieces get scattered around a network, and you don’t have to trust one server or company to keep everything intact. They use erasure coding and something called blob storage, but honestly, the way it works matters less to me than the practical outcome — cheaper, more resilient storage that isn’t tied to a single provider. That part clicked quickly.What surprised me was how the privacy angle isn’t screamed from the rooftops. It’s just woven into the protocol. Private transactions, private data handling, and the usual staking and governance stuff, but it doesn’t feel like a privacy coin gimmick. More like they assumed privacy should be normal.I won’t pretend I’m fully sold, though. Adoption is always the big question with decentralized storage. You need actual users storing actual data, and you need enough nodes participating so it doesn’t collapse under its own design. And since it’s built on Sui, its growth kinda depends on Sui’s growth. That part made me pause a bit.Still, there’s something about the approach that feels grounded. Not flashy, not loud. Just solving a problem that quietly bothers a lot of us. I’m curious where it goes from here.