Walrus timeline
Dive into the Walrus timeline: explore key milestones, breakthroughs, and innovations driving this protocol. Stay updated on the protocol’s journey and progress.
Hi, I’m Tusky. Your go-to decentralized storage solution with end-to-end encryption and seamless integration with the Walrus Protocol.
Who is Tusky?
Tusky is a complete platform for controlling your data: app, API, SDK, CLI and CDN.
With these tools you can:
- Rescue your files from Google Drive and Dropbox, and make them assets on Tusky.
- Share private, end-to-end encrypted data with magic links for viewing or uploading (set permissions and allocate storage).
- View your assets in a media gallery.
- Mint NFTs on Sui (coming soon)
- Token-gate access to private vaults (coming 2025)
- Integrate a complete file system with the above features in your own apps.
Built for the Walrus community, this timeline is your one-stop guide for everything happening in the ecosystem.
So sit back, scroll on, and enjoy tracking the progress of Walrus—you’ll never miss a beat. And hey, if you’d like to stay in the loop, subscribe below to be notified when we update it next!
Nov 10, 2023
Walrus was first hinted at a while before it was announced 😉
Something revolutionary is swimming towards @SuiNetwork, haha you should see @EmanAbio's face! pic.twitter.com/HMcl12z0MI
— Kostas Kryptos (@kostascrypto) November 9, 2023
June 18, 2024
Mysten Labs officially reveals Walrus in Developer Preview!
Today we @Mysten_Labs are unveiling a developer preview of Walrus, a decentralised store and dapp platform: https://t.co/a8CySnzBZY.
— George Danezis (@GDanezis) June 18, 2024
With Walrus you can store, read, and certify the availability of large blobs (many MiBs) on a network of distributed storage nodes. This allows…
August 13, 2024
Walrus joins X, ready to take over with its memes!
August 14, 2024
Walrus breaks the ice with its first hackathon! An opportunity for developers to build, innovate, and showcase their skills on Walrus, with prizes and community recognition up for grabs.
September 17, 2024
At Sui Builder House: Walrus makes big waves with some major announcements.
- The Walrus Whitepaper is here, introducing the WAL token and Walrus’s mission to lead decentralized storage with scalable, cost-effective solutions. You can find it stored on Walrus 😉
- Decrypt announces it will store its entire content library on Walrus, highlighting the platform’s potential as a leading solution for decentralized media storage.
We use Web3 to cover Web3.
Ilan Hazan, Decrypt CPO and Co-founder
- Janet Wu, Director of Product Platform at Mysten Labs, highlights the pivotal role of decentralized storage in shaping the future of the internet during her talk at Sui Builder House Singapore.
October 4, 2024
Walrus announces the winners of its first hackathon, Breaking the Ice! Nearly 300 developers participated over the past two months,and today, the top 10 prize-winning projects are revealed.
October 17, 2024
Walrus Testnet is now live! Featuring deletable blob support, a Walrus explorer, and a staking app by Mysten Labs. The Testnet rolls out a complete WAL tokenomics ecosystem with staking, rewards, and a developer faucet.
October 17, 2024
Tusky announces its move to Walrus!
October 21, 2024
Walrus introduces new quests on Galxe, designed to engage users with its ecosystem and provide insights into the project’s journey toward Mainnet.
October 21, 2024
Walrus announces the winners of its track at the ETHGlobal hackathon! Congratulations to Bucket.Foundation, dTunes, StreamChain, Aloria, and SmartSign for their standout projects built on Walrus.
October 22, 2024
Tusky (formerly Akord) demonstrates the ease of uploading multiple files to Walrus using their app, showcasing seamless integration with Walrus’s decentralized storage.
— Walrus (@WalrusProtocol) October 22, 2024
October 22, 2024
Walrus unveils SnowReads, a curated collection of scientific papers spanning economics, computer science, physics, and more. Powered entirely by Walrus, SnowReads demonstrates Walrus’s ability to deliver efficient and reliable storage for archival applications.
October 22, 2024
Walrus announces Buidly as the winner of their track at the ETHSofia hackathon! Buidly built a decentralized oracle network using Walrus for tamper-proof data storage.
1/ We’re proud to announce that we were among the winners of both the open track and @WalrusProtocol track at @ETHSofiaBG hackathon
— buidly (@buidly_) October 22, 2024
Big shoutout to @4ptOLabs for all their hard work and to the #ETHSofia team for organizing such an awesome event in Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Awesome… pic.twitter.com/xtrnCCekXs
October 29, 2024
Walrus hosts their first X space with Tusky (formerly Akord).
Join us on Thursday for our first X Space where we'll be talking with @AkordApp about the benefits of decentralized file storage and why they're moving their entire infrastructure from Arweave to Walrus 😎
— Walrus (@WalrusProtocol) October 28, 2024
📅 October 31
🕚 11am PT
⏰Set your reminder!https://t.co/fLPFx7q12r
November 12, 2024
FourPillars publishes a detailed write-up on why Mysten Labs created Walrus. We’d definitely recommend giving it a read!
Thorough write-up of why Walrus is set to be the next big thing in decentralized data storage. 👇 https://t.co/jSRBwBknHv
— Walrus (@WalrusProtocol) November 12, 2024
November 19, 2024
The Tusky app goes live, offering decentralized storage on Walrus with end-to-end encryption. Early adopters can subscribe and enjoy a 50% discount for 6 months with code TEAMTUSKY50
December 2, 2024
Dear Devs,
Looking for the best dev tools to build on Walrus Protocol?
Look no further as Tusky releases it's API docs 👇
📢 Calling all @WalrusProtocol builders!
— Tusky (@TuskyTools) December 2, 2024
Tusky API docs are here: https://t.co/OeZgOMYF4K
With Tusky API you can:
▶️ leverage a complete file management system
▶️ be optimized for speed with chunked uploads
▶️ use end-to-end encryption with user-owned keys
▶️ automatically… pic.twitter.com/qFrJwjobzV
December 6, 2024
Walrus partners with Creditcoin, Spacecoin, and Sui to bring decentralized solutions to underserved regions.
💥 Big news – a new partnership between @Creditcoin, @_Spacecoin, @SuiNetwork, and Walrus will help enable access to TradFi services in traditionally underserved areas and connect remote regions to high-speed internet – all via blockchain. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/0JLyhKfNbe
— Walrus (@WalrusProtocol) December 6, 2024
December 9, 2024
Kostas teases a SEAL-iously cool new project on Walrus!
Cute encryption project soon in Walrus, SuiNS and Sui 😍 pic.twitter.com/UDfOxLE6RI
— Kostas Kryptos (@kostascrypto) December 9, 2024
December 10, 2024
Walrus opens applications for node operators!
Ready to power decentralized storage? Check out the specs below.
Apply to be a node operator for Walrus now!
— Walrus (@WalrusProtocol) December 10, 2024
Submit your app by 11:59pm PT on Friday, December 13.
Minimum storage requirements are:
➡️ CPU: 16-24 cores
➡️ Memory: 100 GB
➡️ Disk/Storage: 52 TB
➡️ Network Bandwidth per Month: ~5 TBhttps://t.co/AB8U6jX4WQ
December 12, 2024
Atoma launches private, decentralized AI on Sui, leveraging Walrus for secure data storage!
Now live on Mainnet, Atoma enables fully private AI processing using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) while maintaining the speed and efficiency of centralized models. The team also demoed "Utopia," an AI chat app showcasing Atoma’s capabilities.
December 18, 2024
Arkham partners with Sui to bring its blockchain analytics platform to millions of Sui users! The integration will enhance Arkham’s features with Sui data, including entity/address pages, dashboards, real-time alerts, and more. Arkham is also exploring Walrus for decentralized data storage, further strengthening its capabilities on Sui.
January 7, 2024
Walrus is stepping up its game with SEAL, a new project designed to change how on-chain data is shared and protected.
For the next-gen Web3 apps, just storing data on-chain isn’t enough.
— Adeniyi.sui (@EmanAbio) January 7, 2025
You need the power to decide who sees what.
That’s why we're building SEAL on @WalrusProtocol .
SEAL will be a complete game changer in how we share and protect on-chain data.#GetReadyForWalrus pic.twitter.com/WaPBiCIMB2
January 28, 2024
TradePort, the largest NFT marketplace on Sui, is integrating Walrus to store metadata for all its Move-based ecosystem NFT projects.
January 30, 2025
Walrus is officially probably nothing.
probably nothing 🦭
— Walrus (@WalrusProtocol) January 30, 2025
blob-blob.sui 🔗 https://t.co/sZJmsaE6fq pic.twitter.com/S2j4yrJ7nJ
February 2, 2025
Studio Mirai’s latest Walrus PFP drops, and purple robots are taking over X!
Want to join the takeover? Get your PFP here!
It’s probably nothing.
We've made it. pic.twitter.com/7331Idcmo4
— kotaro (robot arc) (@_smkotaro) February 3, 2025
February 9, 2025
Tusky reaches 2 million uploads on Walrus Testnet!
2,000,000+ TESTNET UPLOADS 💪📈
— Tusky (@TuskyTools) February 10, 2025
Over a million uploads to @WalrusProtocol via Tusky in the last two weeks alone.
107,000 just today.
Will we hit a million in this week alone? How many before mainnet?
100,000,000 will come quick, I feel it in my tuskies! pic.twitter.com/V3ZwqVR5AF
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