Blockchain game players all understand that pain point: cross-chain transfer of items is painfully slow, success rates are unstable, and storage costs are ridiculously high. Over the past two years, I’ve been immersed in the blockchain gaming ecosystem, and recently I was blown away by Walrus’s solution.

The core is threefold: low-cost storage, cross-chain compatibility, and support for dynamic assets. It sounds simple, but this is precisely where the blockchain gaming industry hits a bottleneck.

By early 2026, Walrus has already deeply integrated with four top metaverse games, with cross-chain game asset storage exceeding 2PB. Virtual land, character skins, equipment, and other six types of assets can seamlessly interoperate across seven public chains including Ethereum, Solana, and Sui. Data after migrating from a popular blockchain game is particularly intuitive—the success rate of cross-chain item transfers jumped from 67% to 99.2%, and transfer time was compressed from 5 minutes to 8 seconds. The storage cost for virtual land metadata has also decreased by 78%, and the resources saved by developers are fully invested in gameplay innovation, resulting in a 56% increase in user activity.

For small file storage, Quilt’s batch storage solution is interesting. It can pack and store up to 660 small game files, reducing storage costs for 100KB-level items by 106 times—this is a godsend for developers working on skins, items, and other small data assets. When players use items, they don’t need to unpack, and loading speed is four times faster than traditional solutions, making the gaming experience noticeably smoother.

The dynamic sharding mechanism solves the scalability challenge of large-scale games. As user numbers grow, the network automatically adds new shards to handle data, eliminating bottlenecks. Under this logic, the demand scenarios for WAL will continue to increase.