Walrus Sessions 8: Building chatbots that actually remember you ($2,500 in prizes, ends Oct 9)
Most chatbots forget everything the second a conversation ends. Ask it something on Monday, come back Tuesday, and you're a stranger again. Walrus Sessions 8: "Chatbots That Remember" is a live hackathon session tackling exactly that — building (or retrofitting) a chatbot that uses Walrus Memory to persist context across sessions, users, and devices. The challenge Build or retrofit a chatbot…
Chatbots often forget all prior context when a conversation ends, forcing users to start over each time. The Walrus Sessions 8: Chatbots That Remember hackathon aims to change that by building or retrofitting chatbots that use Walrus Memory to retain context across sessions, users, and devices. Participants can build new chatbots or improve existing ones, demonstrating how the memory system works and showing real-world applications.
The challenge runs from Sept 18 to Oct 9, 2026, and offers prizes totaling $2,500 in WAL tokens. Best Chatbot winners receive $500, $250, and $150, while the Best Article prize is $100. Bug bounties offer $100 each for reporting reproducible issues in the MemWal SDK. The competition encourages deeper understanding of persistent, encrypted agent memory.
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