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Walrus Sessions: Walrus Memory Prompt Jam

Event Rules

The Walrus Memory Prompt Jam 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 26, 2026 9:00 AM UTC, to July 13, 2026 2:00 PM UTC ("Hackathon Duration")
Results Announcement: July 23, 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 not make more than one submission per person.

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

Please note the following additional eligibility requirements for your Submission:

Judgment of Submissions; Selection of the Winners

Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:

1. Does it solve a real problem? Is the pain point clearly described and genuine? Judges will look at whether the prompt addresses a real, recurring need — for the submitter or for others. A prompt solving a specific, common problem beats a technically impressive prompt that nobody would actually use.

2. Is the prompt well-crafted? Does it give the agent clear rules — what to remember, when to write, how to structure memories? Does it use Walrus Memory thoughtfully rather than just calling memwal_remember occasionally? Judges will reward prompts that demonstrate genuine understanding of how memory works.

3. Does it work? Is there proof of writes on Mainnet? Does the demo show it functioning in practice? A prompt that generates consistent, meaningful blob writes — and demonstrably changes agent behaviour — scores higher than one that generates a handful.

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

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:

Team Choice — 5 winners, $200 WAL each

Selected by the Panel Walrus team across a range of use cases and skill levels. A great beginner prompt and a sophisticated advanced prompt are judged on their own merits, not ranked against each other.

Best Feedback — $300 WAL pool

Split across the best bug reports and feature requests submitted as GitHub issues at github.com/MystenLabs/MemWal during the Session Duration. Quality and actionability of feedback determines allocation.

Special Prize — $200 WAL

Awarded at the Panel's discretion to a participant with an exceptional or unexpected contribution during the Session.

Community Choice — 3 winners, $100 WAL each

Selected by votes from participants of the competition.

Community Choice Raffle — 8 winners, $25 WAL each

Raffle among participants who voted for one of the Community Choice winners.

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 Session participant who referred them to the Session. If a winning participant listed a qualifying referrer in their submission form, the referrer may receive a referral reward equal to 25% of the value of the Prize awarded to the winning participant. Additionally, a winning participant who was referred by a qualifying referrer will receive an additional 10% of their Prize value on top of their awarded Prize. Referral rewards only apply when the referred participant wins one of the five Team Choice prizes. Feedback prizes, special prizes, and other bonus rewards are not eligible.

Example: If a participant wins $200 WAL and listed a qualifying referrer, the referrer receives $50 WAL, and the winner receives an additional $20 WAL. Neither amount reduces the other's prize — all referral rewards are 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 Sponsor and Panel reserve the right to determine referral reward eligibility in their sole discretion.