Walrus Sessions: Walrus Memory World Cup

The Walrus Memory World Cup event (the "Hackathon") is organized and sponsored by the Walrus Foundation (the "Sponsor"). The overarching goal of the Hackathon is to foster developer engagement with the Walrus protocol (the "Network") resulting in the deployment and launch of a Network-native feedback and form platform that helps projects, teams, and the Sponsor collect structured feedback directly from their communities (each, a "Submission"), and the secondary goal is to foster the growth of the Network's global developer community while embodying the Walrus Foundation's values of openness, fairness and competition through tangible action that involves participants from the entire ecosystem.

By participating in the Hackathon, you agree to the Walrus Terms of Service, the Walrus Privacy Policy, the Deepsurge.xyz platform policies, and these Event Rules.

Key Information and Dates

Hackathon Duration: June 5, 2026 to June 24, 2026 ("Hackathon Duration")
Results Announcement: July 2, 2026

Hackathon Eligibility

You must be 18 years of age or the age of majority in the jurisdiction where you reside. You must not be a resident of a sanctioned or restricted jurisdiction.

You must register on the DeepSurge platform to participate in the Hackathon. Your Application must contain:

• Project name and logo
• Project description
• If your project is an existing project on the Network, please briefly describe the new feature or redesign that will be completed during the Hackathon.
• Project website
• Primary contact
• GitHub repo on which your project is published
• App store link for your project (if applicable)
• Optional: Discord handle of the participant who referred you to the Hackathon, if applicable.

Please note the following additional eligibility requirements for your Submission:

• Submit the required information on the submission form: https://airtable.com/appoDAKpC74UOqoDa/shrIl2BMnzMwpuLhO
• Ensure the project is on mainnet and submitted on DeepSurge.
• Submissions must integrate Walrus Memory to power an agent that tracks predictions, opinions, or other interactions linked to the FIFA World Cup 2026. The agent must demonstrate genuine persistent memory — it must reference something it learned about the user in a previous session and use it in a way that would not have been possible on day one.
• All agent state and memory must be stored on Walrus, deployed on Mainnet.
• Submissions must include a publicly accessible interface or site where the memory in action can be seen — a prediction history, a roast of the user's record, a debate log, or any other form that makes the memory visible and meaningful.
• Deploy your submission on Walrus Mainnet and provide a dedicated wallet address created for Sessions.
• Provide a link to your live project and a short demo video (3 minutes or less).
• Complete the Walrus Memory feedback form, including any potential tickets created on GitHub.
• Join the Walrus Discord: https://discord.com/invite/walrusprotocol
• Post a demo, screenshot, or link to your project using #Walrus on X.

Judgment of Submissions; Selection of the Winners

Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:

1. Memory Depth & Authenticity: Does the agent's memory actually change its behaviour over time? Judges will look at whether Walrus Memory is doing real work — not just logging, but shaping what the agent says and how it responds. The clearest signal is a genuine before/after moment: the agent on day one vs. the agent after at least 4 days of use.

2. Creativity & Flair: Is this interesting? Does it make you want to use it, share it, or come back to it? The World Cup provides a live, high-stakes backdrop — judges will reward projects that use it in an unexpected or genuinely fun way. Projects that all look the same will score lower here regardless of technical quality.

3. Technical Execution & Completeness: Is the project live on Walrus Mainnet with Walrus Memory correctly integrated? Does it work? Judges will evaluate stability, code quality, and whether the core experience actually delivers on what the submission promises. A focused, working MVP scores higher than an ambitious project that doesn't function.

All submissions will be judged by a panel appointed by Walrus.

Prizes

A prize (the "Prize") will be awarded to Hackathon Team winners (each a "Prize Recipient"). Prizes will be denominated in WAL and will be deposited into a Prize Recipient-owned wallet that is capable of accepting WAL ("Recipient Wallet"); provided that the Prize Recipient must provide to the Sponsor its unique Recipient Wallet address information within 14 days of an official announcement, for the avoidance of doubt Sponsor shall determine if an announcement is an official announcement at its own discretion. Additionally, Prize Recipient must confirm via a de minimis test transaction, that the Recipient Wallet is compatible with WAL. Prize Recipient accepts all risk of loss with respect to any transfer of WAL to an incompatible wallet or an incorrect wallet address provided by Prize Recipient. Prizes will be awarded to the Teams in each category whose Submission earns the highest total overall score as determined by the Panel. The decision of the Panel will be final.

The Track-specific prizes are as follows:

Best Feedback: Six winners, each $50 in WAL.

Special Prizes: $200 in WAL will be awarded at the Panel's discretion to teams with exceptional contributions to the Network ecosystem during the Hackathon.

In order to receive the prize, one member of the winning Team must confirm acceptance of the prize via email. If a selected winning Team cannot be contacted, is ineligible, or fails to claim a prize, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Submissions as determined in the sole discretion of the Panel.

Referral / Finder's Fee

Participants may optionally list the Discord handle of another Hackathon participant who referred them to the Hackathon. If a winning Team listed a qualifying referrer in its submission form, the referrer may receive a referral reward equal to 25% of the value of the Prize awarded to the winning Team. Referral rewards only apply when the referred team wins one of the main competition prizes for 1st–5th place. Feedback prizes, participation rewards, and other bonus rewards are not eligible.

The referral reward does not reduce the Prize awarded to the winning Team. Any referral reward is paid separately.

If you are listed as a referrer, the referrer must also be a registered participant and must submit a qualifying project during the Session Duration in order to be eligible for any referral reward.

To qualify for a referral reward:

• The referrer must be a registered Hackathon participant.
• The referrer must submit a qualifying project during the Hackathon Duration.
• The referrer's Discord handle must be included in the winning Team's submission form before judging begins.
• The referrer must be contactable through Discord or another channel available to the Sponsor.
• Referral rewards are subject to review and may be withheld in cases of spam, duplicate accounts, fake submissions, self-referrals, or other obvious abuse.

The Sponsor and Panel reserve the right to determine referral reward eligibility in their sole discretion.