Decentralized storage has never lacked innovators in this field, but why have recent years seen the market's focus repeatedly on Walrus Protocol? The core reason is very simple—just one word: speed.

In the world of blockchain storage, the industry often divides data into two camps: "cold data" and "hot data." What Walrus is doing is very aggressive: directly mixing these two concepts.

Compared to other existing storage protocols, many require several hours or even days to complete data sealing and retrieval. Walrus, using a parallel processing architecture, has forcibly reduced this process to milliseconds. When you upload data to the Walrus network, it can be called almost instantly from the other side of the Earth. This real-time availability is a must-have for the rapidly growing data availability (DA) layer market.

Now, more and more L2 solutions and public chain projects are using Walrus as the main data publishing layer. Why? It’s very practical—cost reduction.

In terms of storage efficiency, compared to traditional multi-replica storage models, Walrus’s resource utilization is several times higher. The same hardware resources can provide more stable and cheaper bandwidth support on this network. This technological advantage quickly translates into market competitiveness, attracting many enterprise users migrating from cloud services.

It’s no exaggeration to say Walrus is the brightest new star in the storage track of 2026. Backed by solid throughput data and performance metrics, it is proving who the storage performance king of the Web3 era truly is.