{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-22T15:25:37.464Z","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","cite_as":"Own Your Mind, \"Decentralised AI Freedom and Returns score dataset\", https://ownyourmind.ai/integrity/","attribution":"Own Your Mind (ownyourmind.ai). Link the specific project review when citing a single project.","integrity_notice":{"summary":"Each integrity record carries its own record_type, verdict and assessment_level. A 'claim' record quotes the project's own published statement; a 'reported' value is that claim, not a verified fact, unless verdict is 'match'. A 'finding' record is our own measurement and grades no one's claim. assessment_level 'not-assessed' means unchecked, never clean. Findings are dated snapshots, not a live feed.","verdicts":{"match":"verified against independent data","inflated":"reported higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to grade","unverified":"independently checkable, not yet checked","unverifiable":"checked, could not independently confirm"},"record_types":{"claim":"the project's own published statement, quoted verbatim, graded against independent data","finding":"our own measurement for a score dimension; no claimant and never a verdict on a claim"},"methodology":"https://ownyourmind.ai/resources/integrity-checks/"},"slug":"walrus","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/walrus.md","title":"Walrus","token":"WAL","category":"storage","freedomScore":6.2,"returnsScore":5.5,"freedomGrade":"C","returnsGrade":"C","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/walrus/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-23","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"storage_fees","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"unverified","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"Storage on Walrus is paid in WAL but priced at a fixed rate of $0.023/GB/month","source_url":"https://docs.wal.app/docs/system-overview/storage-costs","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"$0.023 per GB per month, paid in WAL","source":"Walrus docs, Storage Costs","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":null,"source":"Absent - Walrus is not on DeFiLlama and no independent storage-fee aggregator covers it (verified 2026-07-02)."},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"storage_used_tb","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"unverified","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"472TB active data stored","source_url":"https://www.walrus.xyz/about","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"472TB active data stored","source":"Walrus, About page (walrus.xyz/about), read 2026-10-13","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":null,"source":"Not yet read. Walrus's docs (View System Info) state that the Walrus system object on Sui carries metadata about available and used storage."},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"low"},{"metric":"total_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Max Supply 5,000,000,000 WAL","source_url":"https://www.walrus.xyz/wal-token","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"5,000,000,000 WAL maximum supply","source":"Walrus, WAL token page (walrus.xyz/wal-token)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Confirmed. The WAL coin type on Sui mainnet (0x356a...4f59::wal::WAL, 9 decimals) reports a total supply of 4,999,929,701.36 WAL, which is 70,298.64 below the 5 billion headline, consistent with a fixed mint minus a small burn rather than ongoing issuance.","source":"Sui mainnet GraphQL (graphql.mainnet.sui.io) coinMetadata supply for the WAL coin type, 2026-08-13"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"open_source_footprint","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0","source_url":"https://github.com/MystenLabs/walrus","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Apache-2.0 licence","source":"Walrus GitHub repository README (MystenLabs/walrus)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"MystenLabs/walrus carries an Apache-2.0 licence, 407 stars, not archived, with 116 open issues and a push on the day of this check.","source":"GitHub API (MystenLabs/walrus), 2026-08-13"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"WAL trades across a broad spread of venues, and no single venue carries more than a fifth of volume.","independent":{"value":"68 tickers across 47 venues totalling $4.88M of 24h volume, led by Upbit $838,912, Binance $624,940 and WhiteBIT $543,926, then Cetus $271,830, Bybit $240,657, Hotcoin $228,670, Bithumb $219,556, Biconomy $184,381 and Gate $178,683, with Coinbase also trading at $57,681. No venue carries more than a fifth of volume. Turnover is a 6.37% 7-day median.","source":"CoinGecko tickers + market_chart, read 2026-09-06 (paginated ticker set, 7-day turnover median)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"storage_committee_halt_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"On the current committee, at least 15 of the 95 storage nodes would have to collude to control a third of Walrus's shards.","independent":{"value":"Epoch 39 committee on 2026-09-20: 95 node objects sharing exactly 1,000 shards, largest 26 shards (2.6%), top five 12.4%, top ten 23.4%. The fewest nodes whose shards exceed a third is 15, so suppressing or withholding a blob needs at least 15 committee nodes to collude. Committee entries are node objects; the read cannot tell whether two nodes share an operator, so 15 is an upper bound on the number of entities.","source":"Sui mainnet GraphQL, Staking object 0x10b9d30c...3904 StakingInnerV1.committee, via scripts/refresh-validator-sets.ts, 2026-09-20"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"unverified","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"WAL's holder distribution could not be measured: Sui has no rich-list endpoint and a full keyless enumeration did not complete.","independent":{"value":"No holder distribution for WAL could be established. Sui has no rich-list endpoint: a holder list has to be assembled by enumerating every Coin object of the type, which the public GraphQL will serve at 50 objects a page. That enumeration ran on 2026-09-20 and reached 235,000 Coin objects across 25,738 distinct owners in 56 minutes before the endpoint refused to continue with 'Request is outside consistent range': the cursor is pinned to a checkpoint and the node had moved past the snapshot the scan started in. A partial holder list would be a wrong measurement, so nothing from that run is reported here. Every third-party index that would answer in one call is gated: Blockberry returns 401, Suiscan's backend returns 407, SuiVision's endpoint does not resolve. Coin objects would also be only half the picture, because staked WAL lives in StakedWal objects that need their own enumeration in the same window.","source":"graphql.mainnet.sui.io objects(filter:{type:\"0x2::coin::Coin<...::wal::WAL>\"}) enumerated 2026-09-20 until the consistent-range error; api.blockberry.one 401; suiscan.xyz backend 407; api.suivision.xyz unresolvable"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"}],"facts":[{"metric":"storage_fee_revenue","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"Walrus is not tracked on DeFiLlama (verified 2026-07-02: api.llama.fi /summary/fees/walrus and /protocol/walrus both not-found) and no independent storage-fee aggregator covers it. Storage is priced at a self-reported fixed $0.023/GB/month, paid in WAL. No independent USD reconciliation exists.","assessed_date":"2026-07-02"}]}}