Good protocols are never isolated; they should be able to give back to the entire ecosystem. The combination of Walrus Protocol and Sui is very interesting — these are not just simple technical integrations, but a design of a dual-token enhancement model.

First, let's talk about a clever design in Sui: the storage fund. On Sui, storing any data requires paying a storage fee upfront. This money is not burned immediately but goes into a fund pool used to subsidize validators for maintaining this data over the long term. If users delete data later, they can get a partial refund; the non-refundable part is permanently locked — effectively destroyed, creating a deflationary pressure on $SUI.

The brilliance of Walrus lies in its perfect integration into this system. When developers store files on the Walrus node network, they also need to create corresponding metadata objects on the Sui chain, which requires paying and locking SUI. As a result: the more widely Walrus is used, the more data objects accumulate on the Sui chain, and the more SUI is locked and destroyed.

How significant is this effect? According to some analysis and estimates, if Walrus reaches a storage scale of 1EB (one million TB), the annual SUI consumption could be as high as 240 million tokens, which would constitute a substantial portion of the circulating supply. From another perspective, this creates a sustainable deflation mechanism for SUI based on real storage demand.

This is the correct way for ecosystem collaboration — not working in silos, but truly letting demand drive value circulation.