Are You Safe Storing Your Files Online?

Have you ever felt extremely frustrated when you lost vital files due to a cloud storage platform crashing? That was what happened to me, and I understood in that moment how heavily we depend on centralized platforms with no exit plan. Because I could not manually store data, I began researching an alternative option and discovered Walrus, a decentralized storage network on Sui.

It is built to flexibly and securely store videos, images, and PDFs more than current alternatives such as Filecoin and Arweave. The aspect that grabbed my attention was the way Walrus splits data into multiple nodes through erasure coding to make it even more fault tolerant. It also tokenizes storage capacity, adding another level of programmability that's not present in conventional cloud services.

Now I see its native token it's currently trading on Biitget, one of the trusted exchange out there, I want to see how decentralized storage will continue to develop. Is this truly a more superior way of data storage in the long term?