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As real-world assets (RWAs) move closer to blockchain adoption, one challenge continues to block large-scale institutional participation: how to combine compliance, privacy, and interoperability without sacrificing decentralization. 
The recent decision by Dusk Network and NPEX to adopt Chainlink standards marks a major step toward solving this problem. Together, these technologies form a robust foundation for issuing, managing, and settling regulated institutional assets on-chain—securely, transparently, and at scale. 
This collaboration is not about experimentation. It is about building production-ready infrastructure for the next phase of capital markets. 
 
Why Regulated Assets Need a New On-Chain Standard 
Traditional financial assets—equities, bonds, funds, and other RWAs—operate under strict regulatory frameworks. Unlike permissionless crypto assets, they require: 
Verified identities and eligibility checks 
Confidential balances and transfers 
Accurate pricing and trusted external data 
Auditability for regulators and institutions 
Deterministic settlement and legal finality 
Most public blockchains were not designed for these requirements. Fully transparent ledgers expose sensitive financial data, while off-chain compliance systems reintroduce trust and inefficiency. 
Dusk and NPEX aim to change this by combining privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure with verifiable on-chain data standards. 
 
The Role of Dusk Network 
Dusk is a Layer-1 blockchain built specifically for regulated finance. Its architecture allows institutions to move existing market workflows on-chain without breaking regulatory or privacy rules. 
Key capabilities include: 
Zero-knowledge privacy for confidential balances and transactions 
On-chain compliance logic aligned with frameworks like MiCA, MiFID II, and GDPR 
Deterministic finality via its Succinct Attestation proof-of-stake consensus 
EVM compatibility through DuskEVM for familiar developer tooling 
Dusk enables assets to be issued, traded, and settled on-chain while enforcing disclosure, permissioning, and reporting rules directly at the protocol level. 
 
What NPEX Brings to the Stack 
NPEX focuses on regulated market infrastructure, acting as a bridge between traditional financial instruments and blockchain-based execution. 
Its role in the partnership is to: 
Facilitate compliant issuance and lifecycle management of institutional assets 
Align on-chain asset behavior with real-world legal obligations 
Enable institutions to interact with blockchain markets without operational friction 
By integrating with Dusk, NPEX ensures that regulatory constraints are not an afterthought but a native part of asset design. 
 
Why Chainlink Standards Matter 
Chainlink provides the trust layer that connects blockchains with real-world data. For regulated assets, this is critical. 
Through Chainlink standards, Dusk and NPEX gain access to: 
Decentralized price feeds for accurate asset valuation 
Proof-based data delivery that can be audited and verified 
Interoperability standards that allow assets to move across ecosystems 
Reliable external data inputs without centralized data providers 
Chainlink ensures that on-chain assets remain synchronized with off-chain reality—pricing, events, and market conditions—without introducing single points of failure. 

 
Interoperability for On-Chain RWAs 
One of the biggest barriers to RWA adoption is fragmentation. Assets issued on one platform often cannot interact with others. 
By adopting Chainlink standards, Dusk and NPEX ensure that institutional assets can: 
Interact with external protocols and financial systems 
Be priced and referenced consistently across chains 
Maintain compliance while remaining composable 
This interoperability is essential for liquidity, scalability, and institutional confidence. 
 
Privacy Meets Verifiability 
A core strength of this integration is the balance between confidentiality and transparency. 
Dusk ensures that sensitive financial data remains private using zero-knowledge proofs 
Chainlink ensures that critical external data is verifiable and tamper-resistant 
Regulators and authorized parties can audit activity without exposing everything publicly 
This hybrid model reflects how real financial markets operate—private by default, transparent when required. 
 
What This Unlocks for Institutions 
The combined Dusk–NPEX–Chainlink stack enables: 
Tokenized securities with embedded compliance 
Regulated RWAs with verifiable pricing and settlement 
Institutional DeFi with privacy-preserving positions 
Cross-chain interoperability without legal ambiguity 
Faster settlement with deterministic finality 
For institutions, this reduces operational risk while opening access to blockchain efficiency. 
 
A Step Toward Production-Grade On-Chain Finance 
This collaboration is not about speculation or short-term narratives. It represents a shift toward infrastructure that regulators, banks, and asset managers can actually use. 
By aligning: 
Dusk’s privacy-first, compliance-aware blockchain 
NPEX’s regulated market expertise 
Chainlink’s decentralized data standards 
the ecosystem moves closer to a future where capital markets operate on-chain without sacrificing trust, legality, or confidentiality. 
 
Final Thoughts 
The adoption of Chainlink standards by Dusk and NPEX signals a clear direction for blockchain’s institutional future. Regulated finance does not need louder narratives—it needs credible infrastructure. 
This partnership delivers exactly that: 
private when needed, transparent when required, and interoperable by design. 
As real-world assets continue their migration on-chain, solutions like this will define which networks earn institutional trust—and which remain experimental. 
 @Dusk #dusk $DUSK

Decentralized storage only becomes powerful when real applications use it. Walrus is now crossing that critical threshold. What started as a high-performance, programmable storage protocol has evolved into a living ecosystem of applications, all visible through the Walrus Directory—a public, community-driven map of projects building directly on Walrus Mainnet. 

With 170+ live projects already listed, the Walrus ecosystem is no longer theoretical. It is actively powering prediction markets, agent systems, identity layers, creative platforms, and data-driven Web3 applications—each relying on Walrus as their core data layer. 
 
The Walrus Directory: A Public Map of Real Adoption 
The Walrus Directory is more than a showcase. It functions as: 
A discovery layer for builders and users 
A transparency tool showing real Mainnet usage 
A living registry that evolves as the ecosystem grows 
Because Walrus treats data as a programmable onchain resource, every project listed in the directory is not just “using storage,” but actively interacting with Walrus blobs, proofs, availability guarantees, and economic incentives. 
The directory reflects a key shift: Walrus is no longer infrastructure waiting for users—it is infrastructure being used. 
 
What Types of Projects Are Building on Walrus 
The diversity of projects in the Walrus Directory highlights the flexibility of the protocol. Builders are not constrained to a single use case. Instead, Walrus supports multiple verticals simultaneously: 
1. Prediction Markets & Data-Driven Finance 
Projects like MYRIAD show how Walrus can power data-intensive markets where transparency, auditability, and long-term availability are essential. Prediction markets depend on immutable records, historical datasets, and verifiable outcomes—exactly what Walrus is designed to store efficiently at scale. 
2. Creative & Cultural Platforms 
Apps such as ReMeme demonstrate how Walrus enables onchain culture. Memes, media, and creative assets stored as blobs on Walrus gain permanence, ownership guarantees, and censorship resistance—transforming creativity into durable digital artifacts rather than disposable uploads. 
3. Identity & Trust Infrastructure 
Protocols like Humanity Protocol use Walrus to store sensitive but verifiable data, combining decentralized storage with cryptographic proofs. This highlights Walrus’s role in trust-minimized identity systems where integrity, privacy, and availability must coexist. 
4. Agent & AI-Native Systems 
Projects such as ElizaOS point to an emerging trend: agent-based systems that require persistent memory, versioned data, and reliable access. Walrus acts as a long-term memory layer for AI agents and autonomous systems operating across chains and environments. 
 
Why Builders Choose Walrus 
The rapid growth of projects in the Walrus Directory is not accidental. Walrus offers a combination that is still rare in Web3 infrastructure: 
Programmable storage: Data and storage capacity exist as onchain objects 
High availability guarantees: Proof-of-Availability certificates anchored on Sui 
Efficient blob storage: Designed for large, unstructured data 
Decentralized resilience: Red Stuff erasure coding enables fast recovery 
Economic alignment: WAL staking ties security, storage, and incentives together 
This allows builders to design applications where data is not an afterthought, but a first-class component of the protocol logic. 
 
Community-Driven Growth, Not Curated Narratives 
One of the most important aspects of the Walrus Directory is that it is community-managed. Projects can submit themselves, updates happen continuously, and the ecosystem evolves in public. 
This openness matters. It ensures: 
No artificial gatekeeping 
No “paper partnerships” 
No closed ecosystems 
If an app is listed, it is building on Walrus. That transparency strengthens trust for developers, users, and integrators exploring the ecosystem. 
 
From Storage Layer to Ecosystem Layer 
The Walrus Directory makes one thing clear: Walrus is no longer just a protocol—it is an ecosystem layer. 
As more applications rely on: 
Persistent data 
Verifiable history 
Onchain programmability 
AI-ready storage 
Cross-chain data flows 
…the importance of a decentralized, efficient data layer becomes unavoidable. Walrus is positioning itself at the center of that shift. 
 
What Comes Next for Walrus 
With: 
A growing list of Mainnet projects 
Active developer tooling 
RFP programs funding new ideas 
Expanding integrations across Web3 
…the Walrus ecosystem is entering a compounding phase. Each new application increases demand for storage, staking, tooling, and innovation—strengthening the network from the inside out. 
The directory is not the finish line. It’s the signal that Walrus is working in the real world. 

 
Final Thought 
Infrastructure only matters when people build on it. The Walrus Directory proves that builders are not just experimenting—they are committing. 
Walrus is becoming the default data layer for applications that need storage they can trust, program, and scale. 
And this ecosystem is just getting started. @Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL

Decentralized storage is no longer a niche infrastructure problem—it is becoming a foundational layer for Web3, AI, data markets, and onchain applications. Recognizing this shift, the Walrus Foundation has officially launched the Walrus Request for Proposals (RFP) Program, a major initiative designed to fund and support builders who want to expand the Walrus ecosystem and push programmable storage forward. 
This program marks an important milestone for Walrus. It signals a transition from core protocol development into ecosystem-scale growth, where independent teams, developers, and researchers play a direct role in shaping how decentralized storage evolves. 

 
Why the Walrus RFP Program Matters 
Walrus is not just another decentralized storage network. It is a programmable, verifiable, and high-performance data layer built on Sui, designed to treat storage as an onchain resource rather than a passive backend. 
As more applications rely on Walrus to store blobs, media, proofs, AI artifacts, and real-world data, the ecosystem needs: 
Better tooling 
Deeper integrations 
New application layers 
Innovative use cases built directly on Walrus primitives 
The Walrus RFP Program exists to identify gaps, fund solutions, and align builder incentives with the long-term success of the protocol. 
Instead of open-ended grants with unclear direction, Walrus RFPs are targeted and purpose-driven, each one addressing a specific ecosystem need at a given time. 
 
What Kind of Projects Walrus Is Looking For 
The Walrus Foundation is explicitly seeking bold, execution-focused teams who understand both the technical and product dimensions of decentralized storage. 
Projects eligible for RFP funding may include: 
Developer tooling and SDK extensions for Walrus 
Integrations with other blockchain ecosystems 
Data indexing, querying, or analytics layers 
Storage-related middleware and infrastructure 
Novel applications that showcase programmable blob storage 
Research-driven improvements to reliability, performance, or usability 
What matters most is alignment with Walrus’s mission: unlocking the full potential of decentralized, programmable storage. 
 
How Proposals Are Evaluated 
Walrus is taking a quality-first approach to ecosystem growth. Proposals are evaluated across four core dimensions: 
1. Technical strength and execution 
Teams must demonstrate a realistic development plan, clear milestones, and the ability to ship. Walrus values builders who can move from idea to production. 
2. Product alignment with creative insight 
While proposals must address the goals of a specific RFP, Walrus encourages thoughtful extensions and creative approaches that push beyond the obvious solution. 
3. Ecosystem engagement and sustainability 
Projects should not be one-off experiments. The strongest proposals show potential for long-term adoption, collaboration, and integration within the Walrus and broader Web3 ecosystem. 
4. Commitment and resourcing 
Walrus aims to amplify teams that already show momentum—whether through internal resources, external funding, or strong community engagement. The RFP program is designed to accelerate meaningful work, not replace founder commitment. 
 
A Transparent and Structured Selection Process 
The Walrus RFP Program follows a clear and transparent selection pipeline: 
Applications are open now, with proposals reviewed on a rolling basis 
Early submissions are encouraged, as reviews begin two weeks after launch 
Shortlisted teams may be invited for interviews or technical evaluations 
Final selections undergo KYC/KYB checks before onboarding 
Teams not selected are kept connected through future RFP opportunities 
This structure ensures fairness, clarity, and long-term alignment between Walrus and its builders. 
 
Building the Walrus Ecosystem Together 
At its core, Walrus is building more than a storage protocol—it is building data infrastructure for the next generation of decentralized applications. 
As programmable storage becomes essential for: 
AI systems 
Data markets 
Social platforms 
Real-world asset tokenization 
Privacy-preserving analytics 
Web3-native media and content 
…the need for a strong, diverse ecosystem becomes critical. 
The Walrus RFP Program is an open invitation to builders who want to shape how decentralized data works—not just store files, but program, verify, and monetize data in trust-minimized ways. 

 
A Call to Builders 
If you have: 
A clear idea that improves Walrus 
A team capable of executing 
A vision aligned with decentralized, programmable storage 
…the Walrus Foundation wants to hear from you. 
The RFP Program is not just about funding—it’s about co-creating the future of storage, together with builders who believe data should be open, verifiable, resilient, and owned by users. 
Walrus is opening the door. The next chapter of decentralized storage will be written by the ecosystem. @Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL
 

As blockchain adoption expands beyond retail crypto into institutional finance, a fundamental problem becomes impossible to ignore: public blockchains were never designed for regulated markets. Financial institutions need compliance, privacy, fast settlement, and legal clarity—without sacrificing decentralization. 
Dusk Network is built specifically to solve this gap. It is a privacy-enabled, regulation-aware blockchain designed to bring real-world financial markets on-chain while meeting strict regulatory and institutional requirements. 
 
What Is Dusk? 
Dusk is a Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for regulated financial activity. It allows institutions and developers to launch and operate markets where: 
Regulatory compliance is enforced on-chain 
User balances and transfers remain confidential 
Settlement is fast, final, and deterministic 
Developers work with familiar EVM tools enhanced with native privacy 
At its core, Dusk combines: 
Zero-knowledge cryptography for confidentiality 
On-chain compliance logic aligned with MiCA, MiFID II, GDPR, and the EU DLT Pilot Regime 
Succinct Attestation, a proof-of-stake consensus protocol with instant finality 
A modular architecture separating settlement from execution 
Dusk is not a general-purpose blockchain retrofitted for finance—it is designed for finance from day one. 

 
Why Dusk Exists 
Most global financial markets still run on opaque, centralized infrastructure. While blockchains promise transparency and automation, fully public ledgers conflict with regulatory obligations around privacy, disclosure, and data protection. 
Dusk bridges this divide by enabling: 
Confidential transactions without sacrificing auditability 
Permissioned and public flows within the same protocol 
On-chain enforcement of real-world financial rules 
In short, Dusk enables institutional finance to move on-chain without breaking the rules. 
 
Built for Regulated Markets 
Dusk is designed around the needs of regulated institutions such as banks, exchanges, asset issuers, and payment providers. 
Key capabilities include: 
Compliant issuance of securities and RWAs 
Identity-aware transaction flows 
Permissioning at the protocol level 
Smart contracts that enforce eligibility, limits, and reporting 
This allows institutions to issue, trade, and settle assets directly on-chain while remaining compliant with existing legal frameworks. 
 
Privacy by Design, Transparency When Required 
Dusk introduces a dual transaction model that lets users choose how much information is revealed: 
Public transactions for transparent market activity 
Shielded transactions for confidential balances and transfers 
Using zero-knowledge proofs, Dusk ensures that sensitive financial data stays private by default—but can be selectively disclosed to regulators, auditors, or authorized parties when legally required. 
This balance between privacy and accountability is critical for real-world financial adoption. 
 
Fast, Final Settlement 
Dusk runs on Succinct Attestation, a proof-of-stake, committee-based consensus mechanism designed for financial markets. 
Key properties: 
Deterministic finality once a block is ratified 
No user-facing chain reorganizations 
Low-latency, high-throughput settlement 
This makes Dusk suitable for use cases where certainty and speed are non-negotiable, such as trading, payments, and delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement. 
 
Modular and EVM-Friendly Architecture 
Dusk separates execution from settlement to maximize flexibility and performance. 
DuskDS 
Handles: 
Consensus and data availability 
Settlement logic 
Native privacy-preserving transactions 
DuskEVM 
Ethereum-compatible execution environment 
DUSK token used as native gas 
Supports existing Solidity tooling 
Assets can move seamlessly between layers, allowing developers to choose the right execution environment for each use case without compromising compliance or privacy. 
 
What Can You Build on Dusk? 
Dusk is designed to support a wide range of regulated and institutional applications: 
Regulated Digital Securities 
Tokenized equity, debt, and funds 
Embedded compliance rules 
Privacy-respecting cap tables 
Institutional DeFi 
KYC/AML-compliant lending and AMMs 
Private positions with public market signals 
Structured financial products 
Payment & Settlement Infrastructure 
Confidential inter-institution payments 
Atomic DvP settlement of tokenized assets 
Identity & Access Control 
Permissioned markets using verifiable credentials 
Smart-contract enforced access rules 
Dusk enables developers to build real financial infrastructure, not experimental prototypes. 

 
Architecture at a Glance 
Component 
Role 
DuskDS 
Settlement, consensus, privacy, data availability 
DuskEVM 
EVM execution environment 
Rusk 
Reference node implementation 
Citadel 
Identity and access primitives 
Each component is designed to work together while remaining modular and upgradeable. 
 
Getting Started with Dusk 
Whether you’re a user, developer, or node operator, Dusk offers multiple ways to participate: 
Use Dusk – Interact via the Web Wallet 
Stake DUSK – Secure the network and earn rewards 
Build on Dusk – Develop on DuskDS or DuskEVM 
Join the Community – Collaborate and get support 
For deeper technical exploration, developers can dive into the Core Components, Cryptography docs, or the Dusk Whitepaper. 
 
Final Thoughts 
Dusk is not trying to replace public blockchains—it complements them by solving what they cannot: regulated, private, on-chain finance at scale. 
By combining privacy, compliance, fast settlement, and EVM compatibility, Dusk positions itself as the blockchain layer where institutional finance can finally operate without compromise. 
As regulation tightens and institutions move on-chain, Dusk is built for what comes next.  @Dusk #dusk $DUSK
 

In modern digital systems, security is often treated as a patch — something added after data has already been created, moved, and exposed. Firewalls protect the edges, encryption protects certain layers, and audits attempt to catch issues after the fact. But in a world increasingly powered by decentralized applications, AI pipelines, financial automation, and onchain logic, this approach is no longer sufficient. Security must exist across the entire lifecycle of data — from the moment data is created, to how it is stored, accessed, updated, and ultimately consumed. This is the philosophy behind Walrus. 
Walrus is a decentralized storage and data availability protocol built on Sui, designed to secure systems end-to-end: from input to output. Instead of treating storage as a passive backend, Walrus turns data itself into a first-class, programmable, and provable onchain resource. Every version of data stored on Walrus is not only available and performant, but also verifiable, traceable, and tamper-resistant by design. 
 
Securing the Input: Trust at the Point of Data Creation 
Security begins at the moment data enters a system. In traditional architectures, users upload files to centralized servers, trusting opaque infrastructure to handle integrity, availability, and access control. Walrus flips this model. When data is uploaded to Walrus, it is immediately encoded using Red Stuff, Walrus’s two-dimensional erasure coding system. This process fragments data into primary and secondary slivers, distributing them across a decentralized committee of storage nodes. 
At the same time, Walrus generates cryptographic commitments for every sliver and aggregates them into a single blob commitment. This commitment becomes the immutable fingerprint of the data. From the very first write, the system can mathematically prove what was uploaded, when it was uploaded, and that it is being stored correctly — without relying on trust in any single operator. 
This is what it means to secure input at the protocol level: data cannot quietly change, disappear, or be corrupted without detection. 
 
Securing Storage: Reliability Without Centralization 
Once data is stored, the next challenge is reliability. Decentralized systems face constant churn — nodes go offline, networks fluctuate, and participants change. Walrus is built for this reality. Using Red Stuff’s 2D erasure coding, Walrus achieves high durability with far less replication overhead than traditional decentralized storage systems. 
Unlike one-dimensional erasure coding, where recovering a single lost fragment can require downloading the entire file, Walrus enables lightweight self-healing. Nodes can recover missing slivers by communicating with only a subset of peers, minimizing bandwidth usage while maintaining availability. Even if up to two-thirds of nodes become unavailable, data can still be recovered once the network stabilizes. 
This makes Walrus always reliable — not because it assumes perfect conditions, but because it is engineered to survive imperfect ones. 
 
Securing Access: High Performance Without Compromising Integrity 
Security often comes at the cost of speed. Walrus challenges this trade-off. By separating the control plane (on Sui) from the data plane (Walrus storage nodes), the system achieves lightning-fast reads and writes without sacrificing verification. 
When a client retrieves data from Walrus, it does not blindly trust storage nodes. Each sliver is verified against onchain commitments before reconstruction. Only a one-third quorum of valid slivers is needed to read data, making retrieval resilient and efficient even during partial outages. 
This architecture allows Walrus to serve high-throughput applications — from NFTs and games to AI pipelines and enterprise systems — while maintaining cryptographic guarantees that centralized CDNs simply cannot offer. 
 
Securing Output: Provable, Traceable, Tamper-Resistant Data 
What truly sets Walrus apart is its focus on provability. Every version of data stored on Walrus can be traced back to an onchain Proof-of-Availability (PoA) certificate published on Sui. This certificate proves that the data exists, was accepted by the network, and is contractually obligated to be stored for a defined period. 
Because blobs and storage resources are represented as objects on Sui, developers can program rules around data usage. Storage can be renewed automatically, access can be gated by smart contracts, and outdated data can be disassociated without breaking integrity guarantees. This transforms data from a static file into a living, programmable asset. 
In practice, this means applications can prove not just what data they output, but how it was stored, who paid for it, and whether it has been altered — all without relying on centralized trust. 

 
Why “From Input to Output” Matters 
Most systems secure fragments of the pipeline. Walrus secures the entire flow. From the moment data enters the system, through decentralized storage and recovery, to high-performance retrieval and verifiable output, Walrus ensures that security is continuous, not conditional. 
This is why Walrus is increasingly chosen as the data layer for: 
AI systems that require verifiable training data 
Social platforms preserving authentic human records 
Adtech and analytics platforms demanding auditability 
Web3 applications that need scalable, trust-minimized storage 
Enterprise systems bridging onchain and offchain worlds 
By making data right-sized in cost, always reliable, lightning-fast, and provable, Walrus is not just storing files — it is redefining how systems can be secured in a decentralized world. 

 
Walrus as the Foundation for Secure Web3 Systems 
As Web3 matures, infrastructure choices will define what is possible. Security can no longer be an afterthought, and storage can no longer be a black box. Walrus represents a new generation of decentralized infrastructure — one where data is verifiable, programmable, and resilient from start to finish. 
Securing systems from input to output is not a slogan. It is a design philosophy. And Walrus is building it into the foundation of the decentralized internet. 
 @Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL

In the evolving Web3 landscape, technological promise must translate into real-world utility — and Walrus Protocol’s expanding list of strategic partnerships and integrations showcases how its decentralized data layer is being adopted across diverse use cases. A prime example of this is the emerging collaboration with Myriad Protocol, a decentralized prediction market platform. Under this arrangement, Myriad will leverage Walrus’ storage capabilities to house media and verification data immutably and securely onchain, which is crucial for preserving the integrity of market outcomes, user interactions, and DeFi logic. This architecture ensures that prediction results and associated content are accessible without relying on centralized servers, reducing censorship risk and aligning with Web3’s trust assumptions.
The Myriad partnership not only demonstrates a practical use case — but also highlights Walrus’ role as a data infrastructure hub bridging DeFi and decentralized apps. Prediction markets require persistent storage of events, results, and metadata, necessitating robust, tamper-proof systems; Walrus’ decentralized blob storage offers exactly that, providing a base layer where smart contracts can fetch authenticated data without compromise. Such integration underscores Walrus’ value proposition not just as storage, but as verifiable, trustless data availability for composable Web3 protocols
But adoption isn’t limited to prediction markets. Walrus has been selected by Chainbase, one of the leading omnichain data networks for AI, to host massive datasets spanning over 220 blockchains — including a ~300 TB raw dataset — inside its Manuscript data streaming framework. This partnership transforms how blockchain data is processed for AI and analytics, enabling fully decentralized, permissionless pipelines where data integrity is guaranteed by Walrus’ encoding and proof systems. Developers across DeFi, AI, and broader Web3 applications gain access to verified blockchain data without the typical costs and centralization risks associated with traditional cloud services.
Walrus’ real-world adoption extends further. For example, Yotta Labs has designated Walrus as its core data layer for decentralized AI storage and workflow management, alleviating cost and centralization burdens of large AI datasets — a key concern as models and outputs balloon in size. Meanwhile, Humanity Protocol has migrated millions of user credentials to Walrus’ network, using it as a foundation for verifiable identity and credential storage in the Sui ecosystem. These integrations illustrate how Walrus’ storage layer is not only technically robust but flexible enough to fit identity systems, AI pipelines, analytics engines, and more.
Taken together, Walrus is evolving into more than a storage stack — it’s becoming the decentralized data substrate for Web3’s next wave of innovation, from financial markets to AI to identity networks. Its integrations solidify a future where decentralized applications don’t just run on decentralized compute — they also store, verify, and interact with their data in truly trustless environments.
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a crypto industry dominated by hype cycles, loud marketing, and short-term narratives, Dusk Network has taken a noticeably different path. The Dusk Foundation has focused less on viral announcements and more on infrastructure, research, and protocol stability. While this may seem slow compared to trend-driven projects, it reflects a mindset closer to traditional financial systems — where trust is built over years, not weeks.
Dusk’s consensus mechanism, cryptographic research, and smart contract framework have all been designed with long-term sustainability in mind. Privacy technology is extremely complex, and mistakes can be catastrophic. Instead of rushing features to market, Dusk emphasizes correctness, security, and formal verification. This careful approach is especially important when dealing with regulated assets, where a single flaw could have legal and financial consequences far beyond the crypto ecosystem.
What makes this progress meaningful is that Dusk is quietly laying the groundwork for institutional adoption, not retail speculation. Governments and enterprises are unlikely to adopt chains that constantly change direction or prioritize hype over reliability. By maintaining a clear focus on privacy-preserving finance, compliance-ready smart contracts, and real-world applicability, the Dusk Foundation is building credibility in places where it actually counts. Over time, this kind of steady development often outperforms louder projects — not in short-term price action, but in lasting relevance. @Dusk #dusk $DUSK

The Walrus Protocol is rapidly emerging as one of the most pivotal infrastructure layers in Web3’s decentralized data economy — and its latest developments reflect that trajectory. In 2025, the Walrus Foundation successfully secured a $140 million private funding round, led by heavyweight investors including Standard Crypto, a16z Crypto, Electric Capital, Creditcoin, Lvna Capital, Protagonist, Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, Karatage, RW3 Ventures, Comma3 Ventures, and The Raptor Group. This substantial capital injection is not merely financial validation; it’s a strategic enabler for Walrus to accelerate its roadmap, expand its network infrastructure, and reinforce its position as a core data layer for decentralized applications and AI workloads.
With this funding, Walrus is driving toward ambitious ecosystem goals beyond just maintaining a decentralized storage network. One of the earliest milestones tied to the raise was the rollout of the mainnet on March 27, 2025, unlocking full operational status and true usage potential across applications like rich media hosting, AI datasets, and Web3 historical records — all on a programmable, blockchain-native stack. The introduction of its native $WAL token expected with mainnet launch also aligns network incentives, supports staking, governance, and potential fee models that catalyze long-term decentralization
But the implications go deeper than funding alone. The capital allows Walrus to invest in ecosystem-wide initiatives such as the Walrus RFP (Request for Proposals) Program, which funds builders and innovators that expand Walrus’ utility and tooling. By encouraging external teams to integrate or build on Walrus, the protocol fosters a diverse set of solutions, from developer SDKs to analytics dashboards to entirely new classes of decentralized applications.
At its core, Walrus isn’t simply another storage protocol — it’s a programmable data layer that addresses fundamental challenges around data availability, onchain accessibility, and decentralized workflows. In a Web3 world where applications increasingly depend on access to verifiable, high-volume datasets — whether for DeFi analytics, real-time gaming assets, AI model storage, or rich media distribution — Walrus aims to become the general-purpose data substrate that developers rely on. The combination of strong financial backing, mainnet momentum, and ecosystem support positions Walrus as a foundational pillar of a more decentralized Web3 data stack. @Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL