Walrus Storage Protocol's operational mechanism is worth a deep understanding. This storage solution built on the Sui network consumes SUI tokens directly as gas fees for each storage operation — this is not just a simple cost relationship, but a clever economic design.

According to industry estimates, assuming Walrus reaches a storage scale of 1EB in the future, the annual SUI consumption will reach 240 million tokens. What does this number mean? It accounts for 15% of the circulating supply. Imagine a storage application itself becoming a continuous source of SUI token destruction.

This creates a closed loop: increased storage demand → increased SUI consumption → reduced circulation → increased token scarcity → enhanced ecological value. Walrus is no longer just an auxiliary application within the Sui ecosystem; it has actually become the core engine of the entire economic system. When storage becomes a fundamental demand, the value support for SUI shifts from consensus to being driven by actual application needs.