Stop focusing solely on price! Walrus is doing something 99% of people don't understand.
If all DeFi protocols are Lego bricks, then Walrus is the foundation that allows you to assemble them faster and more steadily.
What I enjoy most about DeFi is researching "hidden needs": what pain points are we all used to, but which actually have solutions? Liquidity fragmentation is one of them. @walrusprotocol's answer isn't yet another DEX, but a "liquidity routing standard."
Simply put, it allows pools from different chains and protocols to understand and interact with each other. It's like what a swimming coach said—Walrus isn't building a swimming pool, but a smart gate between pools. The future earnings for $WAL holders may come from a share of the transaction fees for each "floodgate opening."
Why is the Chinese community so enthusiastic lately? Because the $150,000 $WAL prize pool has ignited everyone's creative desires. But the deeper reason is that Walrus's documentation and tools are incredibly developer-friendly; many small teams, or even just one person, can build liquidity solutions based on it. This "developer affinity" is often a key signal for ecosystem growth.
If you're still asking "How much will $WAL rise?", try a different question: "If 100 DApps use Walrus to manage liquidity in the future, how much will it be worth?" My personal assessment is that the value of such underlying protocols will grow exponentially with ecosystem expansion, and their competitive advantages are extremely deep.
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