Summary: Why is Walrus Protocol regarded as a key component of the Sui ecosystem? This article provides a comprehensive understanding of this storage project, from technical architecture and RedStuff coding innovation to market prospects in 2026.

1. Storage Track, the Next Explosion Point in Web3

By 2026, the growth logic of Web3 is changing. In the last cycle, we focused on public chain TPS. Now? AI, SocialFi, and high-performance games are fully launched, and the real bottleneck is storage. Comparing public chains to CPUs, decentralized storage is the underlying hard drive of the entire digital world—without this hard drive, where would billions of users' data be stored?

There are not no established storage projects in the market, but the problem is obvious: they are designed for past Web3 needs. Protocols like Walrus are built specifically for current and future demands. That’s the difference.

2. RedStuff: Disrupting Traditional Storage Logic

The reason Walrus has caused such a stir in the tech community is its core weapon, RedStuff—a novel 2D erasure coding scheme.

How is traditional storage done? Multiple backups. This guarantees data security, but at the cost of severe space waste. Walrus cleverly bypasses this issue with mathematical coding, using a carefully designed redundancy mechanism to ensure data integrity while significantly reducing storage costs. This is not a minor optimization; it fundamentally changes the game rules.

In the competition within the storage track, this technological difference is like comparing a knife to a cannon—an outright blow to the competition.