Walrus

What is Walrus?

Walrus is a decentralized storage network originally developed by Mysten Labs for blockchain apps, autonomous agents, and decentralized ecosystems. It addresses high replication costs with a minimal replication factor of 4x–5x, making it a cost-effective solution for storing large data blobs.

Using advanced erasure coding, Walrus breaks down unstructured data into smaller pieces distributed across storage nodes, allowing quick recovery even if two-thirds of the nodes fail.

Walrus enhances data availability and resilience, securely storing digital assets like NFTs, acting as a data availability layer for rollups, and supporting enterprise disaster recovery. Powered by the Sui Network, it scales to offer exabytes of decentralized storage at competitive costs, with greater transparency and fault tolerance than centralized solutions.

Why stake your WAL (Walrus) tokens?

Staking WAL allows you to earn passive income while contributing to the security and performance of the Walrus network. In Walrus, anyone can delegate stake to storage nodes, which influences which storage nodes are selected for the committee in future epochs and how many shards they will hold.

Staking WAL is non-custodial — your tokens remain in your wallet, and you retain full ownership.

How staking works in Walrus:

• Shards are assigned to storage nodes roughly proportional to the amount of stake delegated to them.
• By staking WAL, you earn a share of the storage fees generated by the storage nodes.
• Committee selection happens at the midpoint of the previous epoch to give storage nodes enough time to scale capacity if needed.

Timing and Activation:

• To affect the shard distribution in epoch e and start earning rewards, you must stake before the midpoint of epoch e-1.
• If you stake after this point, it will only influence the committee in epoch e+1 — meaning rewards will start in that epoch.
• Unstaking works similarly: If you request to unstake before the midpoint of epoch e-1, you can withdraw your funds at the start of epoch e. If you miss that cutoff, your stake will remain active through epoch e, and you’ll only be able to withdraw at the start of epoch e+1.

Why is Stakin a great choice for Walrus staking?

Running your own storage node is complex and requires 24/7 monitoring, technical expertise, and robust infrastructure to avoid potential downtime. Stakin simplifies this process by offering secure, reliable, and high-performance staking infrastructure.

Stakin simplifies this process by offering professional staking services with a proven track record of reliable operations. We were early participants in the Walrus testnet and continue to provide robust support post-mainnet launch.

There are several advantages when staking your WAL tokens with Stakin, such as:

• Triple AAA-rated institutional staking provider by Staking Rewards

• ISO 27001 certified staking provider

• Reliable infrastructure - We distribute our servers across various geographical locations and partner with premier bare metal and cloud providers

• Dedicated support for all your staking, unstaking, and network-related questions

• Institutional grade SLAs with uptime and slashing guarantees

What kind of institutional services does Stakin offer for Walrus (WAL) Staking?

As an institutional-grade Walrus node operator, Stakin has a full range of staking services and advantages to cater to the needs of enterprises and investors, such as asset managers, company treasuries, exchanges, VCs and hedge funds, wallets, custodians, and liquid staking services.

• Institutional grade SLAs with 99.5%+ uptime guarantees and slashing guarantees

• Dedicated Account Manager to answer all your technical and commercial questions

• Information about potential airdrops that you may be eligible for by staking with us so that stakers can maximize your staking yield

• Custom integrations and solutions such as custom performance reporting via API or CSV with the possibility to match your backend requirements

• Whitelabel and dedicated nodes with dedicated infrastructure that can be deployed in your preferred region to fit decentralization or compliance needs

• Automated commission and reward management with clear reporting

• 24/7 monitoring and alerting with a private dashboard for dedicated and Whitelabel nodes

• Free premium access to Stakin Dashboard, which includes staking data visualization across any validator and premium historical data features (on selected networks)