Walrus
WAL #217Project Safety Score: 51%
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Walrus is described as a developer platform for data markets intended for the AI era. It aims to make data “trustworthy, provable, monetizable, and secure,” and to support use cases ranging from AI agents to data markets and decentralized finance. The description presents Walrus as enabling data to be activated and used to power new markets, rather than only stored.
The platform is said to let developers build data markets described as efficient and resilient, with mechanisms for controlling and verifying data. It also describes supporting monetization for users, publishers, and content creators, and providing researchers access to datasets. Companies are described as able to convert their data into revenue streams and purchase data to train AI models. No founding year, founder names, technical architecture, native chain, supply cap, or governance model are provided.
Risk Report
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Liquidity and market dynamics score 88 out of 100. Trading activity relative to market value is strong (volume to mcap 90, or 5.95%), and short-term depth appears healthy with 24h volume of $11,346,643. Exchange listing data is extensive, with presence across 54 exchanges and most categorized as green or yellow, indicating relatively broad market access for buyers and sellers.
Team credibility score 52 out of 100. There is evidence of development activity in public code records (github activity 55, with 0 commits in the last 4 weeks and 656 stars), and the project’s whitepaper quality is rated high (100). However, the team is anonymous (team doxxed 25), and there are no deploy or genesis dates, no audit data, and flags indicate no recent commits, which reduces confidence in ongoing engineering transparency.
Social and behavioral risk score 72 out of 100. Social audience data is limited, with linked Twitter and Telegram accounts but low quantified reach (TW 25, TG linked). That said, sentiment is fully positive in the available snapshot (100% up, 0% down), and there are no recorded allegations, bad press, regulatory issues, or incidents in the provided risk signals, which supports a cleaner narrative profile despite the restricted audience visibility.
Contract mechanics score 5 out of 100. The dominant issue is missing or unavailable contract data for safety review, including no contract security scan, no contract verification data, and no ownership data available. Only supply-related metrics are present: a hard cap is defined at 5,000,000,000 and circulating supply is 47% (under 50pct_circulating flag). With verification and security checks unavailable, technical risk cannot be properly assessed.
Inherent crypto risk: For a smart contract token like Walrus, the main risks are contract and operational uncertainty, especially when verified security or ownership details are not available. Even with strong liquidity and positive social sentiment, tokenholders can still face fundamental risks if the contract behavior differs from expectations or if safety checks cannot be independently confirmed.
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CoinDesk · 2025-03-20
- ✓Walrus publishes token utility and distribution details including max supply and allocation percentages on its official site.
- ✓A publicly available Walrus whitepaper PDF is linked from Walrus-related documentation pages.
- ✗Team is anonymous
- ✗Less than 50% of supply is circulating
- ✗Token scan indicates the WAL token is mintable, increasing inflation/administration risk relative to non-mintable tokens.
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