As a nearly 40-year-old investor, I no longer obsess over those volatile market swings. Stability and long-term growth are now my core priorities.

Having been involved with WAL for over a year, I decided to include it in my retirement asset pool. Every month when I receive my salary, I set aside a portion to buy WAL directly and stake it. My friends around me have also started to follow this strategy and invest based on my logic and the actual returns I’ve seen. Honestly, I’m optimistic about WAL not because it can make you rich in the short term—that’s unrealistic—but because it has a clear value proposition, a complete ecosystem support, and a token economic model that can operate coherently. This is what makes it suitable for retirement planning.

**Technically, this is what I value most**. Walrus is built on a certain public chain, with a strong technical team whose core members come from top-tier Web3 projects. The project has been continuously iterating on technology—Quilt solves small file storage efficiency issues, Seal handles access control, and Upload Relay speeds up uploads. A project capable of sustained technological innovation is more likely to survive longer in long-term competition. As the ecosystem’s core token, WAL naturally benefits from these technological advancements and appreciates in value accordingly.

Looking at ecosystem implementation, NFT creators need to store their works with Walrus, AI developers require it for data processing, and ordinary users can find uses for it as well. An ecosystem with demand coverage from top to bottom is what truly supports the token’s value. I am betting that this ecosystem will become more and more complete, and that WAL will become an indispensable part of it.