Eligible users for the Walrus User Drop have started receiving the Walrus Airdrop NFT in their wallets, which grants them a claim to a set number of WAL tokens redeemable at Walrus Mainnet launch. This initial airdrop accounts for 4% of the non-inflationary 5 billion WAL token supply, with an additional 6% reserved for future community distributions. The airdrop rewards early participants who actively engaged with the Walrus and Sui ecosystems. The Walrus Mainnet will introduce a decentralized storage network that allows applications to publish, read, and program data on-chain. Independently operated nodes will store unstructured data files, such as PDFs, videos, and images, ensuring resiliency even if two-thirds of the nodes go offline. WAL serves as the network's currency, playing a key role in payments, security through delegated staking, and governance. Users will pay for storage with WAL, with prices fixed and prepaid to prevent fluctuations. Delegated staking of WAL tokens secures the network, allowing users to participate in governance without operating storage services directly.

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Sui/Aptos