Walrus Foundation

Walrus Foundation

Decentralized storage protocol for secure data

Overview

Walrus Foundation operates a decentralized storage network on the Sui blockchain to securely store and deliver raw data and media, with metadata and proofs of availability recorded on-chain. Uploaded data is encoded and distributed across the network, while the Move-based system ensures data integrity and secure access. It differentiates itself by pairing a decentralized storage protocol with on-chain proofs of availability and an application development platform on top of Sui for programmable storage. Its goal is to grow the programmable storage ecosystem by expanding its protocol and platform and generating revenue through platform services for developers and businesses.

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About Walrus Foundation

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Why Walrus Foundation is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Crypto & Web3

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

ICO

Total Funding

$140M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

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What believers are saying

  • Astros wrote 22 million WVTS records to Walrus since April 2026.
  • Tatum placed 11 TB of historical blockchain datasets on Walrus in 2026.
  • Walrus launched Memory in June 2026 with Allium, Inflectiv, and Tatum support.

What critics are saying

  • Walrus depends on Sui adoption; Mysten Labs controls its core ecosystem stack.
  • Cloudflare Wallets and x402 commoditize agent payments and data access by 2027.
  • If developers choose AWS or Cloudflare, Walrus becomes an expensive crypto experiment.

What makes Walrus Foundation unique

  • Walrus turns storage into onchain, verifiable objects on Sui.
  • Walrus Memory extends storage into persistent AI-agent context across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
  • WVTS gives Walrus a standards position in verifiable trading records across venues.

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Headcount

6 month growth

64%

1 year growth

64%

2 year growth

109%
Crypto-Economy
Aug 6th, 2026
Astros and Walrus introduce open standard for agentic trading records.

Astros and Walrus introduce open standard for agentic trading records. * Guido Battigelli * Published: August 6, 2026 * 8:08 pm * Updated: August 6, 2026 * 8:08 pm Table of Contents * Astros and Walrus introduced the Walrus Verifiable Trading Standard (WVTS), an open standard for publishing verifiable trading records. * The standard incorporates an MCP layer and AI-readable context objects, allowing agents to consume verified market data directly. * Astros Scan, the first product built on WVTS, has already accumulated over 22 million records written to Walrus since April 2026. Astros, one of the leading perpetuals DEXs on the Sui network, announced a collaboration with Walrus to introduce the Walrus Verifiable Trading Standard (WVTS). WVTS is an open standard designed to turn trading activity into verifiable records that traders, developers, and artificial intelligence agents can use with confidence. The initiative aims to solve a structural problem in agentic trading: the current inability to verify the data on which AI agents operate. The starting diagnosis is that onchain markets generate detailed records of every execution, position, and liquidation, but that information is fragmented across exchanges, wallets, analytics platforms, and indexers, with no common structure. WVTS will be released open source enabling any venue, on any chain, to adopt the standard. Read the full announcement | https://t.co/8t2Htig34A - Walrus | /acc (@WalrusProtocol) August 6, 2026 For users, this means that performance history cannot be transferred across platforms. For developers, it means allocating engineering resources to rebuilding indexing pipelines instead of launching new products. And for AI agents, it means operating on data they cannot audit or verify independently. An open standard to change the rules of Walrus. WVTS defines a common way to publish trading activity on Walrus. Each record is independently verifiable, without needing to go through the venue that generated it. The data is publicly readable, allowing wallets, analytics platforms, and trading tools to use it without requiring special permissions. The specification, reference implementation, and development kit will be published as open source under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing adoption across any network. Astros Scan, launched this week as the first product built on the standard, already demonstrates its scope: since April, Astros has written over 22 million records to Walrus asynchronously and without additional latency. The platform allows users to visualize account activity, positions, execution history, and liquidations in a single dashboard. It also incorporates Trading DNA, an AI-generated profile of each user's trading behavior, built from their own onchain history. Trustless verification. "Every fill on Astros can now be verified by someone who doesn't trust us," said Jerry Liu, founder and CEO of Astros. For his part, Kostas Chalkias, co-founder and Chief Cryptographer of Mysten Labs, original contributor to Sui and Walrus, stressed that agentic trading needs a shared and verifiable standard, given that AI agents cannot audit those who operate the market. flash news Arkham integrated support for Coinbase's x402 standard into its API, allowing artificial intelligence agents to pay for access to onchain data using USDC directly at the moment of each request. CryptoCurrency News TL;DR The ElizaOS token fell 7% in 24 hours to an all-time low of $0.000274, with a market cap of just $2.09 million. Founder Shaw flash news Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets, a programmable wallet designed for artificial intelligence agents that aims to simplify the identification of those agents and facilitate payment for APIs and digital content through stablecoin CryptoNews TL;DR Shaw Walters declared that the native token of Eliza Labs is "dead" and announced the closure of the foundation associated with the project. The The share of decentralized exchanges in spot trading volume reached 24% of centralized exchange volume in July 2026. The metric, calculated by Crypto Economy using the TL;DR Earnings: PayPal posted $1.26 per share in Q2, slightly below expectations but with revenue rising to $8.68 billion. Strategy: The company emphasized stablecoins, agentic Follow Crypto Economy on Social Networks Crypto Tutorials Crypto Reviews

Tech.eu
Jul 30th, 2026
Perceptron raises $6.5M to build decentralised AI data network with 800,000 contributors

Perceptron, a decentralised AI data network, has raised $6.5 million in a strategic funding round. Investors include Sigma Capital, Selini Capital, QCP Capital, and P2 Ventures, among others. The platform allows AI companies to commission specialised datasets from a decentralised network of contributors. Perceptron currently has over 807,000 nodes and 300,000 daily active users. The company is launching a data-questing platform that enables AI firms to request specific datasets directly from its community, reducing collection time to days. Contributors own and can monetise their data without relying on third parties. The funding will support the platform launch, expand contributor infrastructure, and scale the network towards a target of 5 million nodes.

PR Newswire
Jun 3rd, 2026
Walrus launches portable memory layer for AI agents with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini support

Walrus has launched Walrus Memory, a portable memory layer designed specifically for AI agents. The platform enables agents to carry context across applications and sessions whilst maintaining verifiable data integrity. Walrus Memory supports major AI platforms including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, along with OpenClaw and NemoClaw agentic frameworks. Memories are encrypted by default with programmable access permissions, allowing coordinated multi-agent workflows through shared memory spaces. The platform launches with native integrations including SDKs for Python and TypeScript, and MCP support. Launch partners include Allium, Conso Labs, Inflectiv, OpenGradient, Talus Labs and Tatum. Walrus Memory is available now, with developers able to start for free at walrus.xyz/memory. The platform was created by Walrus, the verifiable data platform built by former Meta engineers.

Walrus
Apr 30th, 2026
MemWal now supports NemoClaw and OpenClaw for long-term agent memory.

MemWal now supports NemoClaw and OpenClaw for long-term agent memory. Walrus foundation. As AI moves from single prompts to persistent agents, one infrastructure gap is becoming obvious: agents need long-term persistent and shareable memory. For enterprises, the infra gap results in fragile workflows, duplicated effort, and no way to share knowledge across teams or systems. Today Walrus is bridging that gap by introducing a NemoClaw/OpenClaw plugin for MemWal, a long-term, verifiable memory layer on Walrus. This agent orchestration frameworks for building autonomous AI workflows allows such agents to easily store durable memory on Walrus and retrieve it across runs, environments, and teams without building custom storage infrastructure. "Memory is quickly becoming the limiting factor for what AI agents can actually do in the real world," explains Abhinav Garg, product manager at Mysten Labs. "Agents effectively reset every session, so an agent that forgets what it did yesterday can't build context, can't improve over time, and ultimately cannot be trusted for anything beyond short, stateless tasks." Walrus, a verifiable data platform, complements NemoClaw and OpenClaw by acting as a persistence layer for agent memory, workflow state, and AI artifacts. This is relevant as the ecosystem around agent frameworks evolves and enterprises look for infrastructure that is open, portable, and not tied to a single vendor. How it works. The MemWal plugin connects NemoClaw and OpenClaw agents to MemWal's memory model so developers can add persistent memory with minimal integration work. The plugin exposes MemWal memory operations as tools the agent can call during execution, allowing memory reads and writes to become part of the normal agent workflow. At a high level, the integration pattern is simple: NemoClaw/OpenClaw | agent execution MemWal plugin | memory interface MemWal service | memory management Walrus | durable storage Why long-term memory matters for NemoClaw and OpenClaw agents. Enterprise agents need more than short-term context windows or temporary databases. They need memory that persists across deployments, teams, and time. For example, agents supporting research, compliance, finance, or operations often need to maintain knowledge that evolves over months or years. Walrus via MemWal enables this by acting as durable infrastructure where NemoClaw and OpenClaw agents periodically store: * memory snapshots and knowledge states * workflow checkpoints and execution traces * reasoning summaries and tool outputs * environment state needed for reproducibility With the MemWal plugin, NemoClaw and OpenClaw agents can automatically persist these artifacts as structured memories rather than treating them as logs or temporary outputs. This enables agents to be restarted, audited, or migrated without losing institutional knowledge. Instead of agents being ephemeral processes, they become persistent systems with explainable histories. This becomes particularly valuable for enterprises that need to answer questions like: * Why did the agent take this action? * What data did it rely on? * Can Walrus reproduce this workflow? How NemoClaw and OpenClaw agents integrate with MemWal. MemWal allows NemoClaw and OpenClaw agents to use long-term memory without needing to directly manage storage workflows. Instead of interacting with Walrus directly, agents can use MemWal's memory abstractions to write checkpoints, retrieve context, and maintain long-term state. While NemoClaw and OpenClaw agents can technically write directly to storage systems, MemWal simplifies this by providing a structured memory model, reusable memory abstractions, ownership & access controls, and portable memory across environments. This allows NemoClaw and OpenClaw developers to treat memory as a system capability rather than infrastructure they must build themselves. The MemWal NemoClaw/OpenClaw plugin allows agents to: * Store structured agent memories through MemWal memory spaces * Retrieve relevant memories during future agent runs * Persist workflow checkpoints automatically * Share memory across agents using common memory spaces * Separate short-term reasoning from durable knowledge As a result, developers can add long-term memory to existing agents without redesigning their architecture. This allows memory to become part of the agent's reasoning loop rather than an external system. Developers can add MemWal memory to NemoClaw or OpenClaw agents by: * Installing the MemWal plugin * Configuring a memory space * Calling memory write/read tools from the agent loop Why this matters now. As agents move from demos to production systems, the ability to maintain durable memory will become as important as reasoning quality. The MemWal plugin shows how memory can become a standard layer in agent architecture rather than an afterthought. The composable layer of NemoClaw or OpenClaw, MemWal, and Walrus illustrates a broader architectural direction emerging in AI: Compute should be flexible. Memory should be persistent and shareable. Data should be verifiable, private, and portable. "Our view is that memory and data shouldn't be tied to any single model or platform," said Abhinav. "Walrus becomes that verifiable data layer, and MemWal becomes the memory layer on top of it. If that works, agents can become more portable, more collaborative, and much more reliable over time." For enterprises adopting agentic systems and for open-source developers evaluating alternatives to increasingly centralized AI stacks, this combination represents an interesting path forward. Use the quick start guide to add MemWal memory to your agents Reach out to Walrus on Discord via the developers channel if you're building with these tools and are interested in collaborating

Walrus
Apr 14th, 2026
Tatum integrates Walrus to accelerate blockchain data access for developers and AI agents.

Tatum integrates Walrus to accelerate blockchain data access for developers and AI agents. Walrus Foundation. Tatum, a leading blockchain infrastructure provider trusted by Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and xPortal, is making 11 TB of historical blockchain datasets available through Walrus. The integration unlocks significant efficiency improvements for developers, businesses and AI agents building on blockchain data. From bottlenecks to instant access. To date, accessing large-scale blockchain datasets, including transaction histories, logs, and indexed block data, meant relying on slow, costly, and sequential RPC-based data reconstruction. With Walrus, Tatum is replacing that with instantly accessible datasets optimized for analytics, machine learning, and large-scale consumption. "At Tatum, our mission has always been to make blockchain development as simple and accessible as possible," said Dion Cornett, CEO of Tatum. "By partnering with Walrus, we're taking a major step forward - not just by simplifying how developers access blockchain data, but by changing how it's delivered while maintaining decentralization. Our partnership clears the path for developers to access decentralized data with the same speed and simplicity as a centralized solution." Structured data, ready for AI. Walrus enables Tatum to package and distribute blockchain data as structured, programmable files directly onchain, without relying on centralized storage or custom delivery pipelines. By eliminating the need for custom pipelines, Tatum's data becomes ready for agentic AI workflows, empowering developers to train models on onchain activity with unprecedented efficiency. "We built Walrus to make data verifiable and globally available. Our work with Tatum is another strong example of what that makes possible," said Rebecca Simmonds, Managing Executive of the Walrus Foundation. "As autonomous agents increasingly interact with blockchain data, being able to verify where that data came from, and have it be highly performant, is mission-critical. We're giving builders and agents what they need to work with onchain data at scale." Phase one and what comes next. The first phase of the integration includes complete historical datasets for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Binance Smart Chain (BSC), with more to follow from Tatum's 100+ supported networks. The integration opens the door to future onchain data products, including transaction histories, pricing data, and portfolio datasets offered as directly consumable assets, along with new monetization models built around packaging blockchain data.

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