DeFi Epoch Shifts Are Silent Killers: Responsibility Vanishes! 🤯
This isn't about data loss; it's about the terrifying handoff during protocol rotation where nobody owns the serving duty. When an epoch boundary hits, requests keep flowing, nodes swap roles, and suddenly, the blob you need is in limbo because the "who serves it now" map is fuzzy.
Engineers feel this creep immediately: p95 fetch times spike, retries stack, and support tickets sound like folklore. Nothing technically breaks, so no incident is called, but user experience bleeds out slowly. The core issue is fragmented obligation during the shuffle.
$WAL needs to solve this continuity crisis. Serving and repairing through an epoch flip must be treated as paid, guaranteed work, not volunteer effort. If repair bandwidth is underpriced, the backlog becomes the new normal, eroding trust in those critical first minutes post-rotation. Smart teams patch this by pre-warming caches and avoiding fresh fetches immediately after duty shifts, keeping Walrus as the ultimate, reliable backstop.
#DeFi #ProtocolDesign #WalrusProtocol $WAL