Walrus Devnet Hackathon: Breaking the Ice 🧊

We are breaking the ice by hosting a mini-hackathon for Mysten Lab’s brand new product, Walrus. Walrus is a decentralized storage and data availability protocol. It’s cheap, robust, and easy to build with!

Walrus official links: Homepage | Twitter | Docs | Discord

Learn and build with Walrus for the chance to earn community recognition and prizes! Registration and Submission at: https://breakingtheice.walrus.site/

🎁 Community Driven Prizes

Community Shortlist $500 for each shortlisted team

• The top projects voted on by the community will be shortlisted
• Additional shortlisted teams will be selected by the hackathon organizers

Peer Approval $30,000 distributed to top teams

• Shortlisted teams will be randomly split into 2 groups
• Each team can only vote for teams in the other group
• The top teams will receive an even distribution from the pool

📚 How it Works

All builders are invited to participate!

• The hackathon kicks off on Aug 13 and will be conducted virtually through early Oct. All eligible projects will enter the shortlisting period.
• Teams can be shortlisted in 2 ways: 1. By the hackathon organizers, and 2. Through community voting via an on-chain voting app.

Shortlisted teams will the move on to a final round of peer voting.

• These teams will be randomly split into 2 groups, and they can vote for teams in the other group.
• After this peer voting period concludes, the total prize pool will be distributed evenly across the top teams.

📝 How to Participate

• Register for the hackathon
• Build your project on Walrus Devnet
  • The project must be integrated with Walrus
  • All static content must be stored on Walrus. Remember that all data stored on Walrus is PUBLIC by default.
  • Note Walrus Devnet will eventually be replaced with Walrus Testnet. See more Walrus Devnet disclaimer here.
• Submit your final project
  • Include a Walrus site and a video demo/presentation of your project uploaded to Walrus
  • Ensure your project has a public repo on Github
• Community voting: participate in the community voting process and garner community support for your project
• If your team is shortlisted, participate in the peer voting process to determine the final top teams

🕒 Timeline

🟢 Right Now Start Building!

🗓️ August 13 - September 16 Registration and Submission Period

🗂️ September 17 - 20 Shortlisting Period

🗳️ September 23 - 30 Peer Voting for Shortlisted Teams

🏆 Early October Final Winners Announced 🎉