Walrus Labs籌集了1.4億美元，以破壞分散的存儲市場

分散的存儲協議海象最近完成了1.4億美元的融資。

Author: Frank, PANews

作者：弗蘭克，潘尤斯

The decentralized storage protocol Walrus has recently completed a financing of $140 million. This round of financing was led by Standard Crypto, with participation from institutions such as a16z crypto and Electric Capital. With an emphasis on technological innovation, this capital injection into an old-generation on-chain project renders it the largest financing amount in recent times.

去中心化的存儲協議海象最近完成了1.4億美元的融資。這一輪融資是由標準加密貨幣（Standard Crypto）領導的，來自A16Z加密貨幣和電氣資本等機構的參與。在重點是技術創新的過程中，這項資本注入到舊的鏈上項目中，這使其成為近來最大的融資金額。

As the decentralized storage protocol developed by the Sui chain team Mysten Labs, Walrus aims to provide efficient and reliable storage solutions for large files and unstructured data. It is built on the Sui blockchain and leverages error correction code (erasure coding) technology to achieve a replication factor of 4~5, reducing storage costs by 80-100 times compared to protocols like Filecoin and Arweave.

隨著SUI鏈團隊Mysten Labs開發的分散存儲協議，Walrus旨在為大型文件和非結構化數據提供有效且可靠的存儲解決方案。它建立在SUI區塊鏈上，並利用誤差校正代碼（擦除編碼）技術達到4〜5的複制因子，與Filecoin和Arweave等協議相比，將存儲成本降低了80-100倍。

In the present market environment, such a huge financing amount may be difficult to obtain with just the narrative of technological innovation. Another reason for Walrus's large-scale financing is that it comes from Mysten Labs. As the development team of the Sui network, Mysten Labs completed a financing amount of US$336 million before the launch of the Sui network. The lead investor of Walrus, Standard Crypto, as well as institutions such as a16z crypto and Electric Capital, have also appeared on the list of investors of Sui.

在當前的市場環境中，僅通過技術創新的敘述，很難獲得如此巨大的融資額。海像大規模融資的另一個原因是它來自Mysten Labs。作為SUI網絡的開發團隊，Mysten Labs在啟動SUI網絡之前完成了3.36億美元的融資。海象，標準加密貨幣以及A16Z加密貨幣和電氣資本等機構的首席投資者也出現在SUI的投資者名單上。

According to the statement when Walrus was launched, it can be seen that the launch of Walrus originated from the need to upgrade the storage problem of Sui network. After Walrus went online, it reduced the storage pressure of Sui network by providing efficient decentralized storage solutions.

根據海象發射時的聲明，可以看出，海象的發布起源於升級SUI Network的存儲問題的需求。海像上網後，它通過提供有效的分散存儲解決方案來降低SUI網絡的存儲壓力。

In addition, according to SuperEx's report, each blob stored by Walrus needs to create a metadata object on Sui, which consumes SUI tokens as gas fees. If Walrus usage increases to 1EB (exabyte), it is estimated that about 240 million SUI (15% of the current circulation) may be consumed each year, indirectly affecting the network economy. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Filecoin's total storage capacity will be about 4.2EB.

此外，根據Superex的報告，Walrus存儲的每個斑點都需要在SUI上創建一個元數據，該物體將SUI令牌作為汽油費用。如果海象使用量增加到1EB（Exabyte），則估計每年可能會消費約2.4億SUI（佔當前流通的15％），從而間接影響網絡經濟。在2024年第四季度，Filecoin的總存儲容量約為4.2EB。

Mysten Labs also announced in March that it had acquired Parasol, a Web3 gaming infrastructure startup. Combined with the performance improvement of Walrus, Sui Network may focus on AI and gaming next.

Mysten Labs還於3月宣布，它已經收購了Web3遊戲基礎架構初創公司Parasol。結合海象的性能提高，SUI Network可能關注AI和遊戲。

This massive influx of capital seems to remind the market that decentralized storage is still a market with potential. According to a report by Codex.Storage in December 2024, the decentralized storage market will see further market expansion in 2025 as AI expands and more and more companies adopt hybrid cloud.

大量資本湧入似乎提醒市場，分散的存儲仍然是有潛力的市場。根據Codex.Storage在2024年12月的一份報告，隨著AI的擴展，分散的存儲市場將在2025年進行進一步的市場擴張，並且越來越多的公司採用混合雲。

$80 million worth of airdrops have been distributed via NFT

價值8000萬美元的氣流已經通過NFT分配

The huge amount of financing also makes the market believe that Walrus may become another major airdrop. WAL is the native token of Walrus, with a maximum supply of 5 billion and an initial circulation supply of 1.25 billion. Walrus' official announcement shows that more than 60% of WAL will be used for the community. But a careful study shows that this does not mean that the initial airdrop ratio will be high. It is reported that a total of 10% of the tokens will be used for user airdrops, of which 4% will be allocated before the mainnet is launched, and 6% will be allocated after the mainnet is launched. In addition, 43% of the tokens are used for community reserves. This part of the funds is used for the long-term development and growth of the Walrus ecosystem, including community funding and planning, developer support, Walrus core research, incentive programs, community activities, hackathons and other ecological projects. It is managed by the Walrus Foundation and the mainnet is expected to be launched on March 27.

大量融資也使市場相信海象可能成為另一個主要的空投。 WAL是海象的本地像徵，最高供應50億，初始發行量為12.5億。 Walrus的官方公告表明，超過60％的WAL將用於社區。但是一項仔細的研究表明，這並不意味著最初的氣流比將很高。據報導，總共10％的令牌將用於用戶氣流，其中4％將在啟動主網之前分配，並在啟動Mainnet後分配6％。此外，有43％的令牌用於社區儲量。這部分資金用於海像生態系統的長期發展和增長，包括社區資助和計劃，開發人員支持，海象核心研究，激勵計劃，社區活動，黑客馬拉松和其他生態項目。它由Walrus基金會管理，預計Mainnet將於3月27日推出。

Investors will receive a total of 7% of the shares, which will be unlocked 12 months after the mainnet is launched. Based on the calculation that the 7% token share corresponds to the $140 million financing, the cost of a single WAL obtained by investors is about $0.4. The valuation of WAL has reached $2 billion, compared to the current full circulation market value of Filecoin, which is about $6 billion.

投資者將總共獲得7％的股票，這些股票將在啟動Mainnet後12個月解鎖。基於7％令牌份額對應於1.4億美元融資的計算，投資者獲得的單個WAL的成本約為0.4美元。與Filecoin的當前全部流通市場價值相比，WAL的估值已達到20億美元，約為60億美元。

Currently, 4% of the tokens before the mainnet launch have been distributed to users participating in the testnet in the form of NFTs, and the remaining 6% of the airdrop shares will be distributed through community incentives and ecological participation after the launch.

目前，在主網發布之前已將4％的令牌分發給參與測試網的用戶以NFT的形式分發，其餘6％的空調股份將在發布後通過社區激勵和生態參與分配。

While the Web3 world is still exploring the ultimate form of the storage track, Walrus has opened up a new path with the technical combination of "error correction code + low replication factor". This is not only a revolution in storage costs, but also a paradigm breakthrough in the self-iteration of the Sui ecosystem - by converting storage consumption into an economic engine for SUI tokens, Walrus is weaving a multi

雖然Web3世界仍在探索存儲軌道的最終形式，但Walrus通過“錯誤校正代碼 +低複製因子”的技術組合打開了一條新路徑。這不僅是存儲成本的革命，而且是SUI生態系統自我讀物的範式突破 - 通過將存儲消耗轉換為SUI代幣的經濟引擎，海象正在編織多個