TechFlow news, on July 24, Walrus Protocol, a blockchain storage protocol built on Sui, announced the launch of Quilt, a bulk storage solution equipped with an intuitive API that enables developers to store and access large volumes of small files—such as NFT collections, documents, AI communication data, logs, and more—in a convenient, efficient, and low-cost manner.
Instead of storing each file individually, Quilt groups multiple small files into a single unit, reducing overhead and costs for 100KB-sized blobs by approximately 106 times and for 10KB-sized blobs by approximately 420 times. Using Quilt also reduces any SUI-denominated gas fees associated with Walrus storage transactions. Currently, multiple projects including Tusky and Gata have adopted Quilt to optimize their storage architectures.
Quilt is now live on the Walrus testnet (version 1.29) and will officially launch on the mainnet with version 1.29 on July 30, 2025.
Notably, as a global data infrastructure for on-chain developers, Walrus has, in just over three months since its mainnet launch, hosted over 800+ TB of encoded data and 14 million blobs, supporting hundreds of projects built on its platform.
