A recent news story has sparked quite a bit of discussion in the community—an undergraduate student in their third year managed to receive 300,000 USDT in an airdrop after deploying several test nodes on Walrus and submitting documentation last year. No investment, no risk, and the returns are comparable to a house in a second- or third-tier city.

This case has struck a chord with many people. Every day, we watch K-line charts on exchanges, calculate Gas fees, waiting for the "perfect moment." Meanwhile, some have already earned their first bucket of financial freedom through insights into the ecosystem.

So, what exactly is worth paying attention to with Walrus?

First, its identity is unusual—an official infrastructure project within the Sui ecosystem, responsible for the core functions of data storage. Currently, most blockchains still rely on centralized or semi-centralized storage solutions like AWS and IPFS. Walrus enables Sui to achieve true autonomous control over the data layer for the first time. This is not just "another storage project," but a breakthrough in the integrity of blockchain architecture.

Market benchmarks: Filecoin and Arweave have already demonstrated the potential of the distributed storage track. Walrus's current price at $0.1x is still in the early stages compared to these pioneers. Plus, with the Sui ecosystem's gaming, AI, and social applications accelerating their launch, data storage demand is entering a period of explosive growth—this is not a hypothesis, but a real demand.

The university student seized the "test participation bonus." What we can grasp are the application dividends that will come once the ecosystem truly prospers. Of course, any investment requires rational judgment—don't be blinded by the story.