Headline: Team Liquid moves 250TB archive onto Walrus, bringing esports history onchain-ready
Team Liquid — one of esports’ biggest organizations — has begun moving a quarter of a petabyte of video and brand assets onto Walrus, a decentralized data layer built on the Sui stack. The migration, announced by Team Liquid on Twitter (Jan. 21, 2026), is being billed as the largest single dataset ever entrusted to Walrus and marks a major moment for how large media-rich organizations think about storage, access, and onchain compatibility.
Why it matters
- Esports produces enormous volumes of footage, metadata, and creative assets that teams must store, index, and reuse across global teams. For Team Liquid, that archive had grown into hundreds of terabytes scattered across physical drives and locations — creating silos, slow search, and higher risk of data loss.
- By migrating roughly 250TB to Walrus, Team Liquid gains faster access, global collaboration without geographic friction, and removal of single points of failure. Internal teams can find and retrieve footage more quickly, and the archive becomes an active, searchable resource rather than a static vault.
What Walrus brings
- Walrus is a decentralized data layer optimized for performance, durability, and long-term flexibility, built on the Sui ecosystem. Moving content to Walrus makes Team Liquid’s archive “onchain-compatible,” meaning the data can interoperate with blockchain environments where records are verifiable, auditable, and tamper-resistant.
- The migration is being executed with Zarklab, which layers UX/UI tools on top of Walrus. Zarklab’s features include AI-powered metadata tagging and advanced search, helping teams locate files across previously disparate storage systems. Granular access controls retain departmental and partner security while enabling broader reuse.
Strategic upside
- Team Liquid sees the move as more than backup: it’s infrastructure for future products and fan experiences. Claire Hungate, Team Liquid’s President & COO, said the organization expects its global teams “will be able to access and search our entire history,” and that Walrus/Sui gives them “the ecosystem, utility, security and speed needed to eventually turn this content into new, interactive experiences for our fans.”
- Rebecca Simmonds, Managing Executive of the Walrus Foundation, added that the partnership shows what data can do “beyond storage” — enabling new access models, controlled sharing, and novel ways to surface archived content without locking Team Liquid into rigid infrastructure.
- Team Liquid already built its fan loyalty platform MyBlue on Sui; this migration deepens its Sui integration and lays groundwork for potential monetization and creative reuse of archival material.
Bigger picture for crypto infrastructure
- The migration pushes Walrus’ stored data to new highs and serves as a real-world enterprise-scale test of decentralized storage and onchain interoperability for media-heavy organizations.
- For the crypto and Web3 ecosystem, large-scale media migrations like this demonstrate demand for storage solutions that combine performance, durability, and blockchain-native capabilities — especially where provenance and verifiability matter.
Bottom line: This is a foundational upgrade for Team Liquid. Its most valuable footage and brand history are now in infrastructure designed to scale, be auditable, and feed future fan-facing products — not just sit on a shelf of hard drives.
Note: This article was adapted from a sponsored post by Walrus.
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