The Moment Walrus Was Truly Tested
Most projects talk about decentralization. Walrus had to live it.
When Tusky, one of the main interfaces people used to interact with Walrus, shut down, panic spread fast. For many users, Tusky felt like Walrus. In Web2, when an app dies, your data usually dies with it. That instinctive fear made sense.
But here’s what actually happened: nothing broke.
The data didn’t disappear. Files weren’t lost. Tusky was only an interface, not the storage layer. All data was already distributed across independent Walrus storage nodes. The front door closed, but the house stayed standing.
This wasn’t a demo or a planned showcase. It was a real failure, caused by a real business shutting down. And Walrus behaved exactly as designed. The protocol didn’t panic. The Foundation guided users to other interfaces. Migration was calm, structured, and boring in the best way possible.
That moment mattered more than any announcement. It proved Walrus is infrastructure, not a product. Interfaces can fail. Companies can disappear. The data survives anyway.
That’s decentralization you don’t have to believe in. You get to watch it work.
