Walrus, a decentralized data storage layer, has surpassed 450TB of unencoded data in just a year, surpassing the 385 TB stored on Arweave. The company was launched by Sui developer Mysten Labs and raised $140 million in a private funding round led by Standard Crypto, with participation from a16z, Electric Capital and Franklin Templeton Digital Assets. Walrus offers programmable storage and scalability, while also harnessing an advanced data encoding algorithm. The platform has been gaining significant adoption, signing partnerships with major companies including real-world asset blockchain Plume, developer CCP Games, Team Liquid, and Decrypt. The success of Walrus is attributed to its quality of data stored, as it comes from real organizations. The firm is also working towards building a beta layer for agent-mediated development and integration with AI providers.