Mavis Evan

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The last decade has been defined by an explosion of on-chain activity. Blockchains became faster, smarter, and more capable, but the data they generate has grown at a far more aggressive pace. High-resolution NFT media, large training sets for decentralized AI, and the endless flow of application data have created a quiet crisis beneath the surface. Blockchains were never designed to act as massive storage engines. Storing raw data directly on a Layer 1 network is slow, expensive, and structurally inefficient. This tension is what many engineers now describe as the storage trilemma, where cost, decentralization, and performance refuse to coexist cleanly.

Sui solved the execution problem by building a high-throughput environment for digital assets, but it deliberately avoided becoming a blob warehouse. That vacuum set the stage for Walrus Protocol. Built by Mysten Labs to operate alongside Sui, Walrus was not conceived as an add-on feature. It was designed as a new storage layer with its own cryptographic logic, purpose-built to carry the weight that blockchains cannot.

At the heart of Walrus is a departure from the old model of brute-force replication. Earlier decentralized storage networks leaned heavily on copying entire files across many nodes or on expensive cryptographic proofs that attempted to measure how long data had been stored. Walrus replaces both approaches with a two-dimensional erasure coding system called Red Stuff. Instead of making full copies of data, it breaks content into structured fragments and spreads them across the network in a way that preserves availability even if a significant portion of nodes disappear. This reduces the replication burden while keeping the system resilient to censorship and hardware failure.

By early 2026, Walrus had already moved beyond its research phase. What launched on mainnet in March 2025 as a technical experiment matured into infrastructure quietly supporting the decentralized web. One of the most revealing stress tests came with the collapse of Tusky, a major storage aggregator, in January 2026. In traditional systems, the failure of a central interface often means broken access and lost files. In the Walrus ecosystem, users simply migrated. Their data remained intact, verifiable, and retrievable, independent of any single company. That moment reshaped how many developers viewed storage risk.

Walrus now sits at a crossroads where storage is no longer just about files. It has become a foundation for autonomous agents, AI models, and applications that need to persist large volumes of unstructured data without surrendering control to centralized servers. As on-chain systems grow more intelligent, they also grow more dependent on memory. Walrus is filling that role, quietly becoming the hard drive layer for a world that no longer trusts traditional infrastructure.

What began as an answer to a technical bottleneck is evolving into a structural pillar of decentralized computing. Walrus is not trying to replace blockchains. It exists because blockchains should not have to carry this burden alone.

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最初はほとんど非合理的に見える形でウォールストリートが振る舞っている。ホワイトハウスと連邦準備制度理事会（FRB）が再び公開対立へと向かっており、ポワール議長への圧力についての報道、独立性に関する疑問、さらには法的言語まで物語に浸透している。他のサイクルでは、このような状況が深刻なリスクオフの動きを引き起こしていたはずだ。しかし、米国株式市場は数時間の揺れを経て、何ら構造的な問題が起きていないかのように急騰した。

鍵となるのはトレーダーたちがノイズをどう解釈しているかである。これは体制の変化として価格反映されていない。むしろボラティリティのイベントとして扱われている。最初の売りの波を経て、ダウ、S&P500、ナスダック全域で弱気を買い戻す資金がすぐに動き出した。この反発は感情的なものではなく、機械的なものだった。政治的な対立が成長、利益、市場が注目するデインフレーションの低下トレンドを崩すとは考えていないという見方を反映している。チャートははっきりと示している。これは「アメリカを売却する」のではなく、「アメリカを取引する」のである。