what's walrus?
Walrus is a decentralized storage protocol designed to handle large data files, known as blobs, in a scalable and programmable manner. Built on the Sui blockchain by Mysten Labs, it leverages Sui's object-centric model to coordinate storage nodes, enabling developers to store, verify, and manage data across chains or even off-chain applications. This makes it particularly suited for AI datasets, decentralized applications, and data-intensive use cases where reliability and verifiability are essential. The protocol introduces innovative features like onchain access control through its Seal system, allowing encrypted, user-owned data with programmable privacy. Walrus transforms static storage into dynamic, ownable onchain objects that can be interacted with via smart contracts, ensuring data persistence and resilience without relying on centralized providers. By focusing on data availability and governance, Walrus empowers builders to create revenue-generating applications in the AI era, where data becomes a monetizable asset. Its integration with Sui facilitates seamless bridging and incentives for node operators, fostering a robust ecosystem for decentralized data markets.
Grayscale launched Walrus Trust, an institutional product offering regulated exposure to the Walrus protocol.
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Grayscale launched Walrus Trust as an institutional product providing regulated exposure to the protocol.
Ranked 9th among DePIN tokens by mindshare in a 7-day tracking period ending December 16, 2025.
Scallop integrates WAL tokens into its DeFi lending platform, distributing approximately 49,000 sWAL weekly as borrowing incentives with up to 4x APR boost.
Walrus Protocol releases Quilt upgrade, a batch storage solution enabling developers to bundle 660 files with individual retrieval and metadata tagging.
Binance lists WAL with token allocation under 1%, distributing tokens through Launchpool, airdrops, and Prime Sale mechanisms.
Talus Labs, strategically backed by Walrus, launches Token Generation Event with $US token listing on Tier 1 centralized exchanges December 11.
XOCIETY Frontier Avatar migration goes live on Sui Network, secured by Walrus Protocol's decentralized storage infrastructure for data reliability and on-chain permanence.
Kraken lists the token for trading in the US and Canada.
$WAL token is now available for clients in the United States and Canada.
Walrus Protocol backs Talus Labs' decentralized automation platform, which raised $10M from Polychain and approaches Token Generation Event.
Records 22% price gain today.
Walrus listed among projects expected to complete Token Generation Event in 2026, though no specific date provided in the compilation.
Breaks trendline and trades above key support level with bullish structure formation.
Seven teams complete a 4-week accelerator program with Sui and PressStartCap, building applications including AI payment agents, private payments, zero-fee remittances, bank-integrated wallets, and adaptive savings solutions.
BaselightDB announces integration with the protocol.
Myriad Markets, a prediction market platform, partners with the protocol on Sui Network for decentralized storage.
Scallop DeFi platform distributes ~49,000 sWAL tokens as part of their weekly borrowing incentive program with up to 4x APR boost for veSCA holders.
The protocol acts as the gold/primary sponsor for Sui Connect's Latin America debut event in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Network statistics reveal 1.01B WAL staked (67% of circulating supply) across 125 storage nodes with 15.45m blobs stored totaling 538TB of 4,167TB capacity. Two new partnerships announced: Everlyn_ai migrating 5k+ AI training videos from AWS/Azure to Walrus and Flock_io using Walrus for privacy-preserving AI model storage.
Claynosaurz NFT collections (OG, Saga, and Claymaker) migrate their off-chain data (images and metadata) to Walrus Protocol for decentralized storage, addressing previous issues with asset availability.
Over 170+ projects now build on the protocol since its Q1 2025 mainnet launch, with partnerships including HumanityProt, OneFootball, Arkham, and TalusNetwork.
The token pumps 28% in 24 hours.
The protocol announces the Haulout Hackathon for developers building with the Sui Stack, offering prizes to participants.
Beep protocol, a Sui-native agentic finance platform for AI agents, plans to support Walrus as an asset alongside SUI and xBTC.
On-chain access control for private data is now available on Walrus Protocol and Sui Network.
Walrus Protocol partners with Alkimi Exchange to build transparent advertising infrastructure, processing 25M+ daily impressions and 3.5B+ transactions.
Scallop DeFi protocol offers approximately 56,000 sWAL in weekly incentives through its borrowing and earning pools.
Protocol staking mechanism allows users to stake $WAL and mint WAL LST liquid staking tokens that remain usable across DeFi while earning staking rewards with no lockup periods.
Walrus Protocol partners with Claynosaurz, a Web3 animation and entertainment brand known for claymation-style dinosaurs, to provide decentralized storage solutions alongside SUI, with involvement from xeetdotai.
Walrus Protocol invested $1M in Talus Labs during a September 2025 strategic funding round alongside Sui Foundation, strengthening ecosystem alignment for AI agent development.
Trader identifies WAL as one of three storage token options to potentially capture narrative from TradFi NAND/RAM/SSD sector rally, citing Mysten's pump execution ability and token accessibility.
Walrus Protocol integrates with Lagrange to create developer experience workflow for Talus's Nexus framework and interactions on idol.fun.
WAL-SUI liquidity pool on MMTFinance shows 188% APR with $1.9m 24h volume and $3m TVL.
Walrus Protocol announces collaboration with Hollywood director Eli Roth (THS Studios) and actor Ron Perlman (Watrfall.io) to enable on-chain filmmaking infrastructure, with an X Space scheduled for October 29th at 9AM PT to discuss the initiative.
Network infrastructure grows to over 100 active storage nodes, with governance influence directly tied to staking contribution from independent operators.
Walrus Protocol serves as infrastructure for AI model storage in Talus Labs' builder stack for on-chain AI agents.
Partnership announced with Humanity Protocol for Decentralized Human IDs.
Massive volume and algorithmic trading patterns on Binance raise concerns about potential market manipulation activity.
Weekly performance shows +24.82% gains, ranking 6th among top gainers.
Walrus protocol continues operating during AWS outage, demonstrating decentralized storage resilience while centralized services experience disruption.
Binance Simple Earn adds WAL token staking with 24,829,060 WAL in total rewards and a limited-time APR boost through Locked Products.
Epoch 16 goes live with 1,000 shards operating on a 14-day cycle, marking a new protocol milestone.
Team apologizes for negative community interactions and announces plans to address builder concerns at Walrus Protocol and Sui Network. (IDs: 1981067125046362595, 1981068149824115088)
Humanity Protocol integrates with Walrus Protocol to decentralize Human IDs, expanding Walrus usage into identity management solutions.
Decrypt publication stores all of its articles on Walrus protocol for decentralized data storage.
TBook launches on Sui using Walrus storage for Soulbound Tokens and on-chain credit scores, bringing 2M users from TON. Protocol maintained full operations during an Amazon outage.
Team announces many more $WAL token drops planned exclusively for the community.
EVE Frontier partnership announced to demonstrate Walrus Protocol's Web3 infrastructure capabilities.
Talus Labs received funding from Walrus Protocol for development of PredictionAI platform with on-chain prediction markets.
WAL token becomes available for use on Ember Protocol platform.
BluWhale AI lists Walrus Protocol among integrations that are expanding across its ecosystem, alongside Allium and Caldera, with cross-chain support through Wormhole and Moov.
Total trading volume reaches $78B+ with $220M in TVL and 2.2M unique accounts.
Upbit exchange listing occurred prior to the Binance listing on October 10.
Scallop protocol adds sWAL to its weekly incentive program, distributing approximately 59,000 sWAL tokens as borrowing rewards with up to 4x APR boost available.
Token experiences -17.67% price decline over 24 hours on October 10, appearing among the day's top three worst performers in the crypto market.
A slashing mechanism will soon be implemented to enforce validator accountability through penalties for poor performance or malicious behavior.
Full Binance spot exchange listing confirmed for October 10, 2025 at 07:30 UTC with trading pairs USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY, accompanied by Binance's 50th HODLer Airdrop program.
Talus AI, a $10M+ funded autonomous AI agent platform, integrates Walrus Protocol as its storage infrastructure layer with testnet currently live and mainnet launching Q1 2026.
A token burning mechanism will soon be implemented where all transactions on the protocol will burn WAL tokens, creating deflationary pressure. Additionally, users will have the option to pay in USD for transactions to maintain strong price predictability.
WAL token is now live on Binance Alpha.
QUILT goes live on Walrus Protocol as a developer tool built for large storage models and consumer dApps.
SEAL integration goes live with Cudis for user-controlled wearables and t'order partnership enables stablecoin payments in Korea's $190B food service market.
A new community rewards program is coming soon with USD-based payouts for leaderboard rankings instead of WAL tokens, designed to maintain tokenomics health and avoid dilutive token emissions.
Walrus Protocol launches SEAL for privacy and access infrastructure and hits record 3.2M blobs per day, with real-time metrics now available on Dune Analytics.
Deflationary tokenomics announced for $WAL token, and storage costs are now locked in USD for pricing stability and predictability.
Price action confirms RSI bullish divergence with bounce from range low and bullish structure break completed on $WAL.
TalusNetwork, an L1 for AI Agents with $19M in funding led by Polychain, is backed by Walrus Protocol and Sui Foundation as infrastructure partners for their AI prediction markets platform.
Walrus Protocol partners with CUDIS Wellness to secure and encrypt health data on-chain for their health-centric protocol featuring physical rings that connect users to the Sui network. CUDIS launches limited pre-orders for 1,500 Sui x CUDIS rings on a first-come, first-served basis.
Grayscale trust now live for Walrus, providing institutional investors with regulated exposure to the protocol.
Walrus Protocol partners with Sui to power KRW stablecoin payments for t'order's platform, covering 300K+ POS devices and $4.3B in annual transaction volume.
$WAL token now offers liquid staking functionality, allowing users to stake while maintaining liquidity and full control of their assets.
$WAL token shows bullish divergence on RSI while trading at support levels, indicating potential reversal setup.
An event supported by Walrus Protocol alongside OpenSea and YGG_Play experiences overcapacity with thousands still pending, indicating high community demand and new partnership collaborations.
A $5K prize pool distributed across 50 winners launches as part of community engagement initiative with Everlyn collaboration.
Walrus Protocol introduces "Seal," a new layer of protection designed to enhance data privacy, access control, and decentralization for secure programmable data on-chain.
Everlyn's AI video platform integrates Walrus as data layer infrastructure, storing 5,000+ clips and enabling onchain training.
Liquid staking goes live, introducing Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) that allow staked $WAL to remain tradable and deployable in DeFi while earning yield.
Walrus Protocol partners with Pudgy Penguins as a key partner for their Asia tour covering Japan, Malaysia, Korea, and Singapore, with activations planned for KBW and Token2049.
Walrus Protocol serves as a gold-tier sponsor for Sui Builder House: APAC event.
New analytical reports on Walrus Protocol by Four Pillars research firm are being presented at official Sui Network event.
Technical analysis indicates $WAL is positioned for a potential breakout after multiple tests of diagonal resistance while holding support levels.
AlkimiExchange launches on Sui using Walrus Protocol for scalable storage in their decentralized advertising platform targeting the $750 billion ad market.
Seal launches on Sui Mainnet with data privacy and access control features.
Three-way collaboration announcement with DeepBookOnSui and Grayscale set for Sept 4 at 1 PM ET via X Spaces.
New Quilt upgrade reduces storage costs by 400x while Seal feature adds encrypted access control, with nodes already processing 20TB+ of data.
New decentralized storage solution launches with $140M+ VC backing, featuring RedStuff technology that makes storage 100x cheaper than Filecoin.
New Fan Certificate NFT launch through Decot Manifesto enables on-chain verification for early supporters.
New integration with Baselight enables direct querying and visualization of structured datasets, introducing first native analytics layer for decentralized data with LLM connectivity.
New partnerships with Grayscale and OneFootball established, while network reaches 640 TB of decentralized storage.
80,000+ wallets receive staking distribution with additional phases planned.
Native integration with SUI L1 enables complete platform functionality including identity, payments, and encrypted content management without cloud services.
New real-time network explorer launches with Proof of SQL integration, enabling trustless queries and analytics for network activity monitoring.
New partnership with Space and Time platform introduces developer tools suite for onchain applications.
Validator accumulates all rewards and whale commits 100,000 WAL to staking, demonstrating long-term conviction.
Second staking season launches with 6% of token supply available for distribution, following previous $150M+ airdrop.
Strategic partnership established with global character brand Line Friends.
Achieves unicorn valuation status ($1B+) with 100% founding team retention.
OneFootball (200M+ fans) integrates platform while Pipe Network launches with Sui blockchain support, expanding cross-chain capabilities.
Major L1 protocols Aptos and Sui adopt similar data availability architecture, validating technical approach.
10% of token supply allocated for user subsidies with fiat-pegged pricing mechanism to stabilize storage costs.