Walrus Labs筹集了1.4亿美元，以破坏分散的存储市场

分散的存储协议海象最近完成了1.4亿美元的融资。

Author: Frank, PANews

作者：弗兰克，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.

去中心化的存储协议海象最近完成了1.4亿美元的融资。这一轮融资是由标准加密货币（Standard Crypto）领导的，来自A16Z加密货币和电气资本等机构的参与。在重点是技术创新的过程中，这项资本注入到旧的链上项目中，这使其成为近来最大的融资金额。

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.

随着SUI链团队Mysten Labs开发的分散存储协议，Walrus旨在为大型文件和非结构化数据提供有效且可靠的存储解决方案。它建立在SUI区块链上，并利用错误校正代码（擦除编码）技术的复制因子为4〜5，与Filecoin和Arweave等协议相比，将存储成本降低了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.

在当前的市场环境中，仅通过技术创新的叙述，很难获得如此巨大的融资额。海象大规模融资的另一个原因是它来自Mysten Labs。作为SUI网络的开发团队，Mysten Labs在启动SUI网络之前完成了3.36亿美元的融资。海象，标准加密货币以及A16Z加密货币和电气资本等机构的首席投资者也出现在SUI的投资者名单上。

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.

根据海象发射时的声明，可以看出，海象的发布起源于升级SUI Network的存储问题的需求。海象上网后，它通过提供有效的分散存储解决方案来降低SUI网络的存储压力。

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，根据Superex的报告，Walrus存储的每个斑点都需要在SUI上创建一个元数据，该物体将SUI令牌作为汽油费用。如果海象使用量增加到1EB（Exabyte），则估计每年可能会消费约2.4亿SUI（占当前流通的15％），从而间接影响网络经济。在2024年第四季度，Filecoin的总存储容量约为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还于3月宣布，它已经收购了Web3游戏基础架构初创公司Parasol。结合海象的性能提高，SUI Network可能关注AI和游戏。

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.

大量资本涌入似乎提醒市场，分散的存储仍然是有潜力的市场。根据Codex.Storage在2024年12月的一份报告，随着AI的扩展，分散的存储市场将在2025年进行进一步的市场扩张，并且越来越多的公司采用混合云。

$80 million worth of airdrops have been distributed via NFT

价值8000万美元的气流已经通过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.

大量融资也使市场相信海象可能成为另一个主要的空投。 WAL是海象的本地象征，最高供应50亿，初始发行量为12.5亿。 Walrus的官方公告表明，超过60％的WAL将用于社区。但是一项仔细的研究表明，这并不意味着最初的气流比将很高。据报道，总共10％的令牌将用于用户气流，其中4％将在启动主网之前分配，并在启动Mainnet后分配6％。此外，有43％的令牌用于社区储量。这部分资金用于海象生态系统的长期发展和增长，包括社区资助和计划，开发人员支持，海象核心研究，激励计划，社区活动，黑客马拉松和其他生态项目。它由Walrus基金会管理，预计Mainnet将于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.

投资者将总共获得7％的股票，这些股票将在启动Mainnet后12个月解锁。基于7％令牌份额对应于1.4亿美元融资的计算，投资者获得的单个WAL的成本约为0.4美元。与Filecoin的当前全部流通市场价值相比，WAL的估值已达到20亿美元，约为60亿美元。

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，在主网发布之前已将4％的令牌分发给参与测试网的用户以NFT的形式分发，其余6％的空调股份将在发布后通过社区激励和生态参与分配。

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

虽然Web3世界仍在探索存储轨道的最终形式，但Walrus通过“错误校正代码 +低复制因子”的技术组合打开了一条新路径。这不仅是存储成本的革命，而且是SUI生态系统自我读物的范式突破 - 通过将存储消耗转换为SUI代币的经济引擎，海象正在编织多个