Have you heard of the Walrus protocol? It has been quite popular recently in the Web3 circle. Its positioning is interesting—it’s not an independent public chain, but a general execution layer running on a trustless cloud computing layer.

What is its core selling point? It uses cutting-edge technology like zero-knowledge proofs to turn any computational task into a verifiable proof. Imagine tasks like AI model training and video rendering, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive; nodes in the network can run these tasks in parallel, and ultimately generate concise proofs that are submitted to underlying chains like Ethereum for verification and settlement. The correctness of the results doesn’t rely on trusting the execution nodes; cryptography guarantees it.

This is the power of "verifiable computation." In simple terms, Walrus aims to usher in a new era of decentralized cloud computing—providing complex off-chain computation support for DApps in a more cost-effective and secure way, significantly expanding the possibilities of what blockchain can do.