Public blockchains emphasize transparency, but users increasingly care about privacy—this contradiction stands right before us. What the Walrus protocol aims to do is build a dedicated "privacy data layer" on top of Sui, a high-performance Layer 1, to reconcile this paradox.
To put it plainly, Walrus is not just another ordinary privacy DeFi tool, but wants to become standard infrastructure for Web3 applications handling sensitive value and sensitive information.
**Why is it needed?** Traditional DeFi runs on completely transparent ledgers, where your asset movements, portfolio allocations, and trading strategies are all laid bare. This directly leads to sandwich attacks, strategy copying, and targeting of large holders—you already know how prevalent these issues are. Looking at NFTs, GameFi, SocialFi and other applications, core data still has to be entrusted to centralized servers like AWS. Isn't this at odds with the philosophy of "decentralized asset ownership"? There exist single points of failure and censorship risks.
**How to solve it?** Walrus tackles this through two key pillars: first, a privacy transaction module based on advanced cryptography like zero-knowledge proofs, and second, a decentralized storage network based on erasure coding. This way, "private assets" and "private data" can be unified and managed on-chain.
**Why choose Sui?** Sui's object-centric model and high throughput capabilities enable Walrus to build natively and efficiently on top of it. This is not a casual choice, but a carefully considered one.
Public blockchains emphasize transparency, but users increasingly care about privacy—this contradiction stands right before us. What the Walrus protocol aims to do is build a dedicated "privacy data layer" on top of Sui, a high-performance Layer 1, to reconcile this paradox.
To put it plainly, Walrus is not just another ordinary privacy DeFi tool, but wants to become standard infrastructure for Web3 applications handling sensitive value and sensitive information.
**Why is it needed?** Traditional DeFi runs on completely transparent ledgers, where your asset movements, portfolio allocations, and trading strategies are all laid bare. This directly leads to sandwich attacks, strategy copying, and targeting of large holders—you already know how prevalent these issues are. Looking at NFTs, GameFi, SocialFi and other applications, core data still has to be entrusted to centralized servers like AWS. Isn't this at odds with the philosophy of "decentralized asset ownership"? There exist single points of failure and censorship risks.
**How to solve it?** Walrus tackles this through two key pillars: first, a privacy transaction module based on advanced cryptography like zero-knowledge proofs, and second, a decentralized storage network based on erasure coding. This way, "private assets" and "private data" can be unified and managed on-chain.
**Why choose Sui?** Sui's object-centric model and high throughput capabilities enable Walrus to build natively and efficiently on top of it. This is not a casual choice, but a carefully considered one.