Many people still misunderstand Walrus's positioning, thinking it's another DeFi or privacy project. In fact — its true mission on the Sui chain is to solve the big data storage problem for the entire Web3 ecosystem. From massive images and videos to various AI training data, Walrus can handle it all.

How do traditional solutions do it? Either pile data on the chain, which is prohibitively expensive; or rely on centralized servers, which become bottlenecks in performance and security. Walrus takes a different approach — based on a distributed storage architecture, allowing data to securely flow across the network, avoiding the sky-high transaction fees of on-chain storage, and not relying on single points of server failure. With this logic, the data processing efficiency of Web3 applications skyrockets, while costs are kept down.

In the current competitive landscape of storage, this kind of solution that combines economy and reliability indeed has promising potential.