Walrus, A Key Piece of Decentralized Infrastructure

Decentralization is a funny topic for our industry. It doesn’t matter until it does. Yet, we see examples all the time from the legacy tech and business world. Stuff like banks being irresponsible with your data and they get hacked. Or a big cloud service provider goes down taking half the web with it. And with the hot trend of AI and how it uses and can access our data, decentralization is more important than ever. Walrus is building a decentralized solution so AI models don’t have to pick between speed, efficiency, user experience and decentralization.

With Walrus, you can get them all. And they have been busy with a lot going on this last quarter. Let’s see what they have been up to. Plus, an important update from one of Walrus’ top partners.

a16z Crypto Report Mention

Sui and Mysten Labs co-founder Adeniyi Abiodun was one of the few non-institutional or a16z crypto people quoted in their late December crypto report of what to expect for 2026. The full report and slide deck is here: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2025/. Walrus is a Mysten Labs project as well and the “Secrets as a Service” aspect of privacy that Abiodun describes here directly applies to Walrus.

And as you can see, a16z thinks privacy generally and secrets specifically are a big deal right now. Plus, it will continue as a trend through this year and the following years. And with a16z, they put their money up to back their opinions. These are the types of projects they will back with big investments. This bodes well for Walrus and other privacy and decentralization projects, too.

Key Piece of the Sui Stack

The Mysten Labs team, along with other ecosystem builders, has been building out what they call the Sui Stack. This is the tech stack projects need to run in Web3 and in a more decentralized way. It’s an alternative to Amazon Web Services, a centralized database provider (MongoDB or others), and centralized security and website performance (Cloudflare).

Walrus, Seal, Nautilus, Sui itself, Deepbook for DeFi, and a couple other projects make up the Sui Stack. Walrus and Seal, with their specialty in storage and access controls, are key pieces to this stack.

If you follow Sui related happenings, then you are already aware that Sui and Solana both are making a claim as the top retail chain to compete with Ethereum. The Sui Stack helps make building on Sui better, safer, and easier than ever before.

Tusky Going Out of Business

Tusky has been a dedicated partner for Walrus since its early days. And Tusky customers have been using Walrus decentralized storage with Tusky front end and added encryption (Walrus is encrypted as well).

About 3 weeks ago, Tusky announced it is going out of business. But as a decentralized storage protocol, customer data for projects like Pudgy Penguins and Claynosaurz still lives, and they can access it.

So with that in mind, Tusky users have until January 19th to migrate their files. Walrus together with Zark Labs and others have a full migration guide so anyone with personal or business data on Tusky can move it easily and still access it. Here is that guide.

It’s important to remember that with decentralized solutions such as Walrus, the data lives on. It’s only a question of how you can access it. It’s why decentralized solutions are so important. There is no single point of failure. So if you use Walrus through Tusky, this is how to move your files in the tweet above.

This is tough news for a good partner.

Conclusion

To end with some good news, after bottoming out on December 30th at 11.5 cents, the $WAL token is up to 13.3c, up 13% in the last 7 days. Maybe this is a sign that the market conditions are recovering from a tough Q4 to finish the year. We are bullish on Walrus and believe it’s one of the top Sui ecosystem projects. The way Walrus is shipping new products and positioning itself for the future only reinforces this further for us.

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