The longer you stay in the crypto world, the more you can see a pattern: things built on emotion may gain quick popularity but also fade fast; whereas projects that truly work on infrastructure, although slow to start and with low attention, once they establish a foothold, their vitality is especially resilient.

Why pay attention to Walrus recently? It’s actually quite straightforward.

It’s addressing a problem almost everyone faces but few really want to tackle: **Does data count as an asset?**

This question seems simple, but behind it is actually a systemic imbalance in the market structure.

**Data has been seriously underestimated all along**

We habitually treat "money" and "computing power" as the core production resources, but few people seriously discuss the current state of data itself. The reality is quite sobering:

Data is being heavily consumed

The boundaries of data ownership are blurred

Those who generate data often don’t receive the value flow

A simple analogy is: everyone is drawing water from the same well, but those who repair and maintain the well can’t profit from the long-term benefits of the well. This logic is clearly flawed.

Walrus’s approach is not to create another new bucket. It aims to make "this well" itself a self-sustaining, cyclic system.

**Why is it more of an engineering solution than a financial innovation**

From the project’s design logic, Walrus isn’t rushing to pile up fancy financial tricks.

Its priority is solving a purely engineering problem: **How to store and distribute massive amounts of data at low cost, long-term stability, and reliability?**

The technical solution uses erasure coding combined with distributed storage. Data is sliced, dispersed, and reassembled, which naturally enhances resistance to censorship, but the more core benefit is—**stability**.

In real business scenarios, stability often outweighs speed.