Recently, I’ve been thinking about a question—how many projects in the crypto space dare to compare themselves to their ten-year future selves?

Honestly, I can’t count on two hands. Most projects are just chasing hype; surviving three years without running away is already considered a success. As for ten years down the line, who dares to make a guarantee?

However, the Walrus project made me reconsider this question. My initial interest in it wasn’t due to flashy marketing concepts, but because of its design philosophy—if one day the development team stops maintaining it, can this system still operate independently? That’s a good question.

**How does it do that?**

Its storage method is quite interesting. Instead of choosing the traditional approach of "packaged storage and unified retrieval," it disperses data into multiple fragments, uses erasure coding with redundancy mechanisms, and then deploys these fragments across different nodes. Roughly speaking, as long as 60%-70% of the fragments are still alive, the original data can be fully recovered.

What does this mean? Your data is no longer the private property of a centralized entity but is entrusted to a self-healing mathematical system. To put it exaggeratedly, data gains the ability to heal itself.

**Some people think this is over-engineering.** But anyone who has experienced platform shutdowns or data loss understands that this is far from superfluous. From a certain perspective, this is life-saving infrastructure.

The common flaw in the crypto world is rushing in and out, chasing profits, and obsessing over short-term gains and traffic. Very few projects are willing to spend ten years laying a solid foundation. Walrus’s "anti-impetuous" architecture mindset requires both foresight and patience to sit through the cold bench.

The key to a project surviving through bull and bear cycles and reaching the future lies precisely in this kind of rooted, foundational persistence.