The battle for public blockchains is heating up, with everyone competing over TPS—Ethereum, Solana, Sui take turns showcasing their speed. But there's a problem no one seems to remember: fast speed is great, but where do you put the data?

That's why Walrus is so crucial. Many haven't realized that Web3 actually has two legs: one is computation (TPS), and the other is storage. Without either, you can't run.

Sui claims to be the Ferrari of blockchains, with transaction processing speeds soaring. But Ferraris have a natural flaw—the trunk is small. Want to run large games, train AI, store massive images and videos on-chain? Just upload them to the Sui mainnet? The costs might make you break out in cold sweat.

Walrus was born to solve this awkwardness. Simply put, it is a storage solution tailored for Sui by Mysten Labs. The core idea is straightforward: take large files out of the expensive consensus layer, and use erasure coding techniques to disperse storage across the network. The result is—PB-level data storage costs can be reduced to nearly negligible, while maintaining Sui's security and interoperability.

This approach is completely different from early storage projects like Filecoin. Filecoin solves the question of "can it be stored," but it’s more like a cold storage warehouse—slow to read. Walrus aims to make storage truly active—cheap to store and fast to use.

Honestly, this is the ultimate form of infrastructure.