On October 20th, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant global outage. This event affected numerous popular websites and applications, including Amazon itself, Pinterest, Reddit, and Venmo. AWS holds a substantial portion of the cloud computing market, over 30%, underscoring the widespread impact of such disruptions. The incident serves as a crucial reminder of the inherent risks associated with the centralized control of cloud data, a concern that decentralized storage protocols like Walrus aim to address.
Yesterday, AWS suffered a region-wide failure. Tens of thousands of services went offline.
Yet @AlkimiExchange, @TalusNetwork, @Claynosaurz, and @_deeptrade didn’t suffer this fate because they built on @WalrusProtocol.
How come? pic.twitter.com/xDZcAiZsEC
— rebecca simmonds 🦭/acc (@RJ_Simmonds) October 21, 2025
This event highlights a critical lesson: the more essential data is entrusted to major cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft, the greater their control over that data becomes. Walrus offers a different approach to data storage, one that prioritizes user control. The Walrus team has been actively developing and expanding its services, with several significant updates and new clients announced recently.
New Clients Embrace Decentralized Data Storage with Walrus
It is worth noting that even some services that market themselves as decentralized in the crypto space rely on AWS, and were consequently affected by the outage. This underscores the broad reach of centralized cloud infrastructure.
Several prominent clients are joining the Walrus initiative to embrace decentralized data storage, placing control back into the hands of users. These new partners include:
- •Humanity Protocol
- •T Book
- •Quilt
- •and others.
Humanity Protocol, a decentralized identity network, has transitioned from IPFS (Filecoin) to Walrus. This significant migration, involving millions of verified credentials, suggests a strong belief in Walrus as a superior solution. The protocol benefits from Walrus's privacy features and robust access control mechanisms provided by Seal.
🦭 @Humanityprot is coming to Walrus!
The decentralized identity network backed by Pantera and Jump is migrating from IPFS to Walrus – bringing 10M+ verified credentials onchain and into the Sui ecosystem.
AI-proof, privacy-first identity at scale. pic.twitter.com/H5VhkuNaio
— Walrus 🦭/acc (@WalrusProtocol) October 22, 2025
T Book's on-chain reputation system now operates seamlessly across the Sui network, thanks to Walrus. This integration will foster greater interaction and reward mechanisms between projects and their genuine user base within communities, creating a mutually beneficial ecosystem.
Walrus now powers @realtbook’s onchain reputation system on @SuiNetwork.
By storing and verifying credit score attestations, Walrus makes user reputation data verifiable, portable, and composable – unlocking trust-based apps and new DeFi markets. https://t.co/dnTkxCQWCE
— Walrus 🦭/acc (@WalrusProtocol) October 21, 2025
Quilt users are experiencing cost savings on Walrus by leveraging its ability to bundle numerous small files into a more efficient system. This approach optimizes storage space, enhances efficiency, and ultimately reduces costs for users.
Market Performance and Exchange Listing
As of the current writing, the broader market is experiencing a downturn, with a 4% decrease. Walrus has also seen a decline, with its $WAL token trading at 21.3 cents, down 5.5%, according to CoinGecko. Despite this monthly dip, the project has attracted significant new clients, suggesting that the current price point represents a favorable entry opportunity for a quality project.
The $WAL token is currently trading at a lower price than its initial TGE (Token Generation Event) in March, indicating that it is still early for potential investors. Furthermore, Walrus is set to receive a Spot trading listing on Binance. Such listings often improve accessibility for buying and selling the token, and historically have been associated with price appreciation. While this correlation may not be as absolute as in the past, it remains a positive indicator for a project of Walrus's caliber, making it more accessible to a wider audience. Walrus is currently available on Binance, numerous other exchanges, and decentralized exchanges within the Sui ecosystem.