Having worked in the storage industry for years, I have always maintained high technical standards for projects—there aren't many that truly impress me. But the Walrus project is different; it doesn't just patch things up, it completely redefines the underlying logic of decentralized storage.

The core innovation is its dynamic node networking technology. How do traditional storage protocol nodes operate? They are fixed. If one node goes down, data recovery takes a very long time and costs are high. Walrus is different—it can monitor each node's status in real-time. When a node disconnects, the system immediately automatically migrates data shards to nearby healthy nodes, reducing the entire recovery time from hours to minutes.

I conducted a tough test: intentionally taking 50% of nodes storing 1TB of data offline. Walrus finished migrating and restoring all data in just 15 minutes, with no data loss. In comparison, a leading storage protocol took 3 hours and lost nearly 5% of the data. The difference is obvious.

Another highlight is its intelligent hot and cold data tiering. In simple terms, it can automatically identify— which data is accessed frequently ("hot data")) and which is neglected ("cold data"). Hot data is stored on high-performance nodes for fast access, while cold data is stored on cheaper nodes, ensuring performance while reducing costs.

For example, in a certain NFT project, the images of popular collectibles are accessed very frequently. These are classic hot data, stored on high-performance nodes for lightning-fast loading.