Hello everyone, my name is Azzu. Regarding the topic of storage, what is the first reaction of many people? — Backend costs. When you develop an application, in the end, you need to find a place to store images, videos, logs, and various datasets. Save where you can, and as long as there are no issues, everything is fine.

But after recent in-depth research into Walrus, I have a completely new perspective: what it aims to do is not fundamentally reduce storage costs, but to transform storage itself from a "backend expense" into a "frontend asset." In other words, allowing contracts to directly call "storage" resources just like calling funds or permissions.

To understand from a different angle: storage is no longer just about paying for space, but after objectification, it becomes a resource on the chain that can be owned, transferred, combined, and integrated into logic. This is the true composability that Walrus seeks.

Why is "objectification" so critical? Because in the on-chain world, only things that can be recognized by contracts have financial attributes and reuse value. If you treat storage capacity or a data block as an object, it instantly ceases to be "a piece of data somewhere on a server" and becomes a resource with identity, rules, and a lifecycle. Contracts can read its state, adjust permissions, perform operations, and even use it as a kind of "credential" to trigger the next action.

In traditional internet, storage is an engineering detail, buried in the background. But in Walrus's paradigm, it is upgraded to a first-class citizen at the protocol layer.

Practical scenarios immediately emerge. For example, automatic renewal — in the past, storing something meant the biggest worry was data expiring and disappearing, requiring manual handling. Now, storage itself becomes a programmable resource; contracts can automatically monitor expiration dates, call funds to renew, and even support multiple parties jointly maintaining the lifecycle of a storage object. This is not a minor improvement; it’s a paradigm shift.