What sets @Walrus 🦭/acc apart from incumbents like Filecoin or Arweave is its unique 2D erasure coding algorithm, nicknamed "Red Stuff." Unlike traditional systems that rely on heavy replication #walrus fragments data into slivers and distributes them across a global network.
This technology allows the network to reconstruct the original data even if up to two-thirds of the nodes go offline. The result is a system that is up to 80% more cost-effective than existing decentralized competitors while maintaining millisecond-level retrieval speeds that rival centralized cloud providers.$WAL
