Decentralized storage has always faced a critical problem: projects often subsidize miners with large token allocations to attract them. Once the token price drops and miners find no profit, they withdraw, causing network paralysis. In simple terms, it's a Ponzi scheme.

Walrus's approach is completely different. Its "Storage Fund" mechanism changes the entire logic.

The storage fees paid by users are not immediately distributed entirely to the current node operators but are instead pooled into a long-term fund. This pool releases rewards linearly over time to future validators and nodes.

In other words, the money you pay today locks in the network security for tomorrow and the day after.

The brilliance of this cross-period payment design is that even if a bear market arrives, the storage fee income accumulated previously can still continuously offset network costs, ensuring uninterrupted operation. For investors, such projects transform from pure speculative assets into assets that genuinely generate cash flow.