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分散型ストレージに関する大多数の議論では、データがどこに格納され、誰が格納しているかに注目される。ノードやシャーディング、証明、暗号化について語られる。これらすべては重要だが、しばしば無視されがちなより深い層がある：時間。@Walrus 🦭/acc では、時間は単なる背景変数ではない。セキュリティモデルの根幹を成すものである。これはエポック、つまり委員会の構成、ステークの使用、責任の再割り当てを規定する構造化された時間単位によって表現される。エポックがなければ、Walrusは分散ネットワークにおいて最も危険な脅威の一つ、カルテルの形成とデータの支配にさらされることになる。

In most conversations about crypto, privacy is treated like a feature. Something you add when users complain. Something you toggle on or off. Something you wrap around transactions after the core system is already built. That approach works if all you are trying to do is hide payments. It completely fails when what you are trying to build is a financial system.
Real financial markets do not run on optional privacy. They run on structural privacy. Banks do not choose whether to keep balances confidential. It is a legal and operational requirement. Trading desks do not flip a switch to hide positions. Their entire infrastructure is built so that only the right parties can see them. Regulators have access, but competitors and the public do not. Privacy is not a setting. It is the architecture.
@Dusk was designed with that reality in mind.
Instead of starting with a transparent blockchain and then trying to patch privacy on top, Dusk starts with encrypted state. Balances, transaction values, and asset ownership are not stored in plain text. They are cryptographically protected by default. This single design choice changes everything about how financial applications can be built onchain.
On most public blockchains, every wallet is an open book. Anyone can see how much you have, what you trade, and who you interact with. That might be acceptable for retail speculation, but it is unusable for institutions, corporations, and serious financial products. Exposure creates risk. It allows front running. It leaks strategies. It violates privacy laws. Dusk removes that exposure at the base layer.
Privacy on Dusk is not achieved by hiding transactions from the network. It is achieved by allowing the network to verify transactions without seeing their contents. Zero knowledge proofs prove that the rules were followed. Homomorphic encryption allows balances to be updated without revealing them. The blockchain remains secure and verifiable, but it no longer functions as a global surveillance system.
This is what it means for privacy to be infrastructure. Every application built on Dusk inherits this protection automatically. Developers do not need to implement their own privacy schemes. Users do not need to trust third party mixers or bridges. The ledger itself is private.
This has profound implications for how finance can move onchain.
Take tokenized securities. A stock or bond is not just a number. It represents legal rights, corporate actions, and regulatory obligations. Ownership records must be accurate and auditable, but they cannot be public. On a transparent blockchain, anyone could map who owns what. On Dusk, ownership exists in encrypted form. Issuers and regulators can see what they need. The public cannot.
The same applies to trading. Markets only work when participants can place orders without revealing their intentions. If a large institution wants to buy or sell, exposing that order in advance moves the price against them. Public DeFi suffers from this constantly through front running and sandwich attacks. Dusk’s private execution prevents that. Orders and balances remain confidential, yet trades still settle correctly.
Privacy as infrastructure also enables something else that most blockchains cannot support: compliance. Regulation does not mean surveillance. It means accountability. Regulators do not need to watch every transaction in real time. They need the ability to inspect, audit, and enforce when required. Dusk supports selective disclosure, allowing authorized parties to view or verify data without making it public.
This aligns perfectly with how real financial oversight works. Banks file reports. Auditors inspect books. Regulators investigate suspicious activity. None of this requires broadcasting everyone’s financial life to the world. Dusk brings that same model onchain.
There is also a human side to this. People do not want their salaries, savings, or investments to be public. In a world where blockchain adoption grows, public ledgers become dangerous. They enable profiling, targeting, and even physical risk. Dusk gives users something simple but powerful: financial dignity.
By making privacy foundational, Dusk also future proofs itself. As AI driven trading, automated compliance, and onchain analytics expand, the ability to compute on encrypted data becomes more important. Dusk is building a platform where algorithms can operate on financial information without exposing it. This is what will allow sophisticated financial systems to run onchain.
My take is that privacy as infrastructure is the only way Web3 becomes real finance. You cannot build global markets on a system that forces everyone to live in public. You cannot bring institutions, corporations, and everyday users into an economy that exposes them by default. Dusk understands this. It is not trying to be another blockchain. It is building the private, compliant, programmable financial layer that Web3 has been missing.
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk_Foundation

暗号通貨におけるプライバシーについて話すとき、会話は通常、単一の言葉「ゼロ知識」に収束する。ZKは、プライベートな決済からスケーラブルなロールアップまで、あらゆることを短縮表現として使っている。しかし、規制された金融システムでは、ZKだけでは不十分である。市場は単にプライバシーを必要とするだけでなく、必要に応じて検証、監査、執行が可能なプライバシーを必要としている。これが@Dusk が大多数のブロックチェーンとは根本的に異なる点である。これは単一の暗号技術に依存しない。ゼロ知識証明と準同型暗号を組み合わせることで、現実の金融インフラが実際にどのように機能しているかにずっと近い仕組みを実現している。

One of the easiest mistakes to make when thinking about decentralized storage is to imagine it like a static cloud. You picture a set of servers somewhere holding data and you assume that as long as they stay online everything is fine. But Walrus was never designed to work like that. It was built with a much deeper understanding of what happens when real money, real data, and real adversaries are involved. That is why one of its most important and least talked about features is the rotation of storage committees.
To understand why this matters, we have to start with what a storage committee actually is in Walrus. When data is stored on the network, it is not just scattered randomly. It is assigned to a specific group of nodes that are responsible for holding it, serving it, and continuously proving that they still have it. That group is the committee for that piece of data. These nodes are economically bonded through WAL, meaning they have something to lose if they fail or cheat.
In a naive system, you might think that once a committee is chosen, it can just keep that data forever. After all, stability sounds good. The same nodes keep the same data and everything is predictable. But in adversarial systems, predictability is a weakness. If attackers know exactly which nodes are holding which data, they can target them. If operators know they will keep the same data forever, they might slowly become lazy, underinvest in hardware, or collude. Over time, the system drifts away from the ideal of decentralised.
@Walrus 🦭/acc avoids this trap by rotating its storage committees. That means the responsibility for holding a given piece of data moves over time from one set of nodes to another. The data itself does not disappear or get re uploaded by users. The network orchestrates the handoff, verifying that the new committee has the data before the old one is released from its obligations. This might sound like an implementation detail, but it is actually a core security and economic design choice.
Rotation turns data storage from a static assignment into a continuous process. Nodes cannot just be good once and then coast forever. They have to repeatedly prove that they are capable, online, and honest. Every rotation is a kind of test. Did the old committee keep the data intact. Did it serve it correctly. Did the new committee receive and verify it properly. Each step is enforced by cryptographic proofs and WAL backed incentives.
From a security perspective, this is extremely powerful. In a static system, an attacker only needs to compromise or collude with the nodes holding a piece of data once. After that, they can quietly degrade availability or try to manipulate it. In a rotating system, the attacker would need to repeatedly control a majority of every committee that ever holds that data. That is orders of magnitude harder, especially when committee membership is randomized and influenced by stake.
Rotation also protects against a more subtle threat: slow decay. Storage is not just about whether a file exists today. It is about whether it will exist and be retrievable years from now. Hardware fails. Operators leave. Incentives change. A static committee that was healthy in year one might be unreliable in year three. By forcing data to move, Walrus continuously refreshes the set of machines and operators responsible for it. Old hardware is replaced by new. Underperforming nodes are naturally filtered out because they lose rewards or get slashed.
There is also an important economic angle. WAL is used to stake, earn, and be penalized. If committees never rotated, large operators could accumulate massive portions of the network and lock in their position. They would have stable income streams from the same data forever. That creates centralization pressure. Rotation prevents that by making access to storage revenue more dynamic. Nodes have to keep competing for committee assignments by providing good service and staking WAL. This keeps the storage market healthier and more decentralized.
For users and developers, rotation means something even more important: long term reliability without trust. You do not have to know who is storing your data. You do not have to trust that they will still be around in five years. The network itself takes on that responsibility. By moving data through many independent operators over time, Walrus reduces the risk that any single failure or group can erase or corrupt history.
This is especially critical for the kinds of applications Walrus is targeting. Onchain identity systems need decades of persistence. Governance records need to be immutable and accessible. AI agents need to keep logs and models that can be audited. Games need to preserve state. All of these use cases fail if data quietly disappears or becomes unverifiable. Committee rotation makes it much harder for that to happen.
It is also worth noting that rotation interacts deeply with Walrus’s proof of storage system. Nodes are not just asked to say they have data. They have to produce cryptographic proofs that are checked by the network. During a rotation, these proofs become even more important because they verify that the data was correctly transferred. WAL backs this whole process. If a node lies, it risks losing its stake. If it behaves well, it earns rewards.
This creates a kind of virtuous cycle. Honest behavior is continuously reinforced. Dishonest or lazy behavior is continuously punished. Over time, the network evolves toward a set of operators that are actually good at doing the job.
There is also a philosophical layer here. Walrus is treating data not as something static, but as something alive. It moves. It is checked. It is re validated. That is much closer to how trust works in human systems. We do not trust someone once and forever. We trust them because they keep showing up and doing what they said they would do. Committee rotation applies that same idea to machines and networks.
From a scaling perspective, rotation helps as well. As the network grows and more nodes join, data can be spread across a larger and more diverse set of participants. This improves geographic distribution, hardware diversity, and resilience against correlated failures. A static system tends to ossify. A rotating system stays flexible.
Some people worry that moving data around introduces complexity and risk. That is true. It is harder to build. But Walrus is choosing the harder path because the alternative is a system that looks decentralized but slowly becomes fragile. By designing rotation into the core of the protocol, Walrus is saying that long term trust is more important than short term convenience.
Over time, as more applications rely on Walrus, this design choice becomes even more important. The more valuable the data, the more attractive it is to attack. Rotation makes those attacks more expensive and less likely to succeed. It turns data storage into a moving target.
My take is that storage committee rotation is one of those features that only reveals its importance when you think in years instead of weeks. It is easy to build something that works today. It is much harder to build something that will still work when it holds the collective memory of decentralized economies. Walrus is trying to do the latter. By constantly reshuffling who holds the data and by backing that process with WAL incentives and cryptographic proofs, it is building a storage layer that does not just exist, but endures.
#walrus $WAL @WalrusProtocol

Web3について話すとき、人々は通常ブロックチェーン、トークン、スマートコントラクトから話題を始めます。取引、ガス料金、投機について語ります。しかし、すべての背後には、ほとんど注目されない静かな層があります：データです。すべてのNFT、すべてのDAOの投票、すべてのAIエージェント、すべてのDeFiポジション、すべてのオンチェーンIDは、単なる取引ではありません。それは、作成されたブロックが忘れ去られた後も、存在し続け、利用可能で、検証可能である必要があるデータの一部なのです。従来のシステムでは、この役割は企業が所有する中央集権的なサーバーが担っています。分散型システムでは、データベースを誰も所有していないため、この役割ははるかに難しいです。そしてまさにその場面で@Walrus 🦭/acc とそのトークンWALが登場します。

人々が「プルーフ・オブ・ステーク」と聞くと、通常はブロックチェーンが検証者を選んでブロックを生成することを思い浮かべます。Walrusも同様のアイデアを利用していますが、それほど重要なものに対して：世界のデータを保持する資格を持つ者が誰かを決定することです。分散型ストレージネットワークでは、すべてのノードが同じように信頼されるべきではありません。一部の運用者は信頼性が高く、一部はそうではありません。一部はインフラや稼働率に投資しています。他の一部は機会主義的です。Walrusは委任型プルーフ・オブ・ステーク（DPoS）を使用して、これらを分離します。
これにより、Walrusは単なるランダムなディスクの集まりを超えて、責任を持ったネットワークへと進化します。