Walrus Protocol $WAL Riding Infrastructure Momentum into 2026 Walrus just marked its Mainnet maturity with real listings on Binance and other exchanges after raising $140M and rolling out on-chain storage that now supports verifiable AI data layers and <50 ms retrieval via Pipe integration, with upgrades like dynamic decentralization and resilient erasure coding lowering costs and boosting real use case demand a quietly powerful build that’s shifting $WAL from launch buzz to foundational Web3 data rails.