Crypto has spent years talking about ownership of money. Far less attention is given to ownership of data, even though data loss hurts just as much—sometimes more. A cloud account gets locked, a service changes policy, or a platform disappears, and suddenly years of work are inaccessible. Not hacked. Not stolen. Just gone.
Walrus exists for this exact weakness. It’s a decentralized storage network built on Sui, focused on handling large files that blockchains can’t store efficiently—datasets, videos, research files, AI training data, and app history. Instead of trusting a single company, data is split and distributed across many independent providers.
This changes the relationship entirely. You’re no longer renting access under someone else’s rules. You’re paying a network to preserve availability without a central gatekeeper. That may sound abstract, until you realize how much leverage centralized storage providers quietly hold over users.
Walrus isn’t trying to replace convenience overnight. It’s offering a different default—one where data behaves more like property than permission.
