About
Walrus is a next-generation decentralized storage network for unstructured data and rich media content such as large text files, videos, images, and audio. Leveraging innovations in erasure coding, Walrus offers exceptional data availability and robustness with minimal replication overhead for cost efficiency. Powered by Sui as the coordination layer, Walrus scales to hundreds or thousands of networked decentralized storage nodes without compromising performance.
Prizes
When building for Walrus, we encourage you to think about two broad directions:
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Applications that use Walrus storage Focus on an app idea where decentralized storage solves a real pain point. Examples include: hosting for NFTs, Democratized access to AI models or Crowdsourced video streaming.
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Developer tools for Walrus Build something that helps developers integrate with Walrus more easily. Since Walrus is a chain-agnostic decentralized storage network, there are many opportunities here- SDKs, caching layers, streaming utilities, blob management tools, and more.
Before you dive in: • Browse the Awesome Walrus repo to see what already exists. • Check in with the Walrus team during the hackathon to validate your idea early. • For more inspiration, see our proposal tooling ideas below.
Qualification Requirements
- If you’re building an app that uses Walrus, it must upload data to Walrus testnet or mainnet.
- If you’re building tooling, it must be integrated with, or enable the developer to work with, Walrus testnet or mainnet.
- The app or the tool must be newly developed.
