Storage has always been a weak link in the Web3 ecosystem, but the emergence of Walrus Protocol has changed this situation. The project’s uniqueness lies in integrating AI capabilities with native privacy protection to create a truly programmable data infrastructure.

On the technical level, Walrus’s collaboration with Zark Lab has launched a full-format AI semantic search function, enabling users to perform intelligent searches across different data types. The Seal feature achieves an unprecedented level of privacy control—data ownership is genuinely in the hands of users, not just a paper promise. Currently, the protocol hosts over 14 million blobs of data, and the ecosystem application Quilt has saved the community 3 million tokens through an optimization mechanism. This anti-harvesting design is worth learning from.

Ecosystem recognition is also quite solid. The backing of Grayscale Trust and a16z is no coincidence, reflecting institutional approval of its technological direction. More importantly, over 60% of tokens are designed for community anti-harvesting, which is rare among similar projects. This means Walrus is not just doing storage but building an ecosystem where participants benefit together.

From the perspective of programmable infrastructure, Walrus is unlocking new possibilities between AI and data sovereignty. This is not only a solution to storage issues but also a redefinition of Web3 in the data era.