Recently, the gold story has been everywhere—$4,800 per ounce, a new all-time high. But what about silver, which is also touted as a "hard currency"? Instead, it’s been labeled as "dangerous." Retail investors worldwide are frantically buying silver, Turkey’s stockpiles are sold out, and demand in the Indian market is skyrocketing. Does this scene sound familiar? It’s like every time a bull market arrives, retail investors rush en masse into a hot asset—an all-too-familiar sight.

The question is: gold is ridiculously expensive, and silver is full of short-term speculation risks. At this moment, many people's money is actually just spinning in place, unsure of where to put it. This precisely highlights the old problem with traditional safe-haven assets—either the barrier to entry is terrifyingly high (like gold), making it impossible for ordinary people to make waves; or they are driven by emotions and capital (like now with silver), with risks soaring, turning it into gambling.

That said, the digital asset space is also contemplating this issue. Projects like Walrus are taking a different approach. It’s not some magical coin that can replace gold, but it offers a brand-new, more fitting idea for this era—imagine a walrus cruising the digital ocean, not seeking to become gold, but aiming to be a more flexible, practical, and inclusive store of value and exchange tool in the digital world.

Why has gold been rising continuously? Besides the uncertain external environment, the core reason is the flood of global liquidity and the increasing devaluation of money. People instinctively want to hold onto something tangible. Walrus’s approach happens to address this— in the digital economy era, what we need is a value carrier that combines stability and ease of use, rather than traditional assets with barriers costing thousands of dollars.