Walrus logs 450TB verifiable data as AI + onchain finance roadmap accelerates

Verifiable data network Walrus is marking its one-year anniversary after surpassing 450TB of stored data, including content from Team Liquid, Decrypt, and Allium. The platform—built by Sui developer Mysten Labs—launched close to a week after the Walrus Foundation’s $140m private funding round led by Standard Crypto, with participation from a16z, Electric Capital, and Franklin Templeton Digital Assets. Walrus says it reached 409TB in early March before passing 450TB this week, outperforming the 385TB benchmark cited from Arweave at the time. The Foundation highlights “quality” as well as “quantity,” pointing to migrations such as Team Liquid’s 250TB esports archive and Decrypt’s media library. Key product upgrades in Walrus’ first year include Quilt (batch storage for cost-efficient small files) and later Seal (to support data privacy and access controls). Walrus argues these features improve fault tolerance and reduce replication costs using erasure coding. Looking ahead, Walrus positions verifiable storage as a critical layer for agentic AI—where systems may execute transactions autonomously—so developers can verify which data agents used and where it came from. The next phase centers on deeper AI integration (including an SDK called MemWal for long-term agent memory) and greater onchain finance involvement, building on its Allium partnership. Walrus is also preparing onchain finance data delivery via Allium, which will bring 65TB of indexed historical records from blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Sui, Arbitrum, Tron, and XRP.