🏆 Haulout Hackathon Results Are Live! 🦭

The first Mainnet hackathon solely for Walrus has wrapped.

By the numbers:

• 887 registrants
• 282 project submissions
• 12+ countries represented

Winners announced across all 4 tracks:

🔐 Data Security & Privacy
📊 Data Marketplaces
🤖 AI x Data
- Provably Authentic

Plus special awards for Best Use of Walrus, Seal, and Nautilus 🎉

Thank you to every builder who shipped. This is just the beginning 🚀

Full results 👇
https://www.walrus.xyz/blog/haulout-hackathon-winners-2025

EV owners: what if your car could earn you money? 🦭

@DLPLabs enables:

💰 Carbon credit tracking on-chain
⚡ Grid stabilization payments (stablecoins to your wallet)

Powered by Walrus!

Learn more in our latest blog entry

Tusky Update: Important Information for Users 🦭

Tusky, one of the leading publishers on Walrus, is closing its doors. Here's what you need to know before January 19, 2026.

Your Data Remains on Walrus

That's how we built it. However, accessibility through your Tusky account, API and SDK will only be available until January 19, 2026. After that date, you'll need to use your private Walrus keys to access your data.

⚠️ Important for E2E Encryption Users
For Tusky users who use Tusky's built-in end-to-end encryption, access will no longer be available after January 19, 2026.

🚨 Step-by-Step Guide
For detailed instructions on ensuring continued easy access to your data, visit: https://docs.wal.app/docs/tusky-migration-guide

Alternative Publishers

Looking to avoid managing your own private keys, or need a new encryption solution? The Walrus ecosystem has several options:
- @ZarkLab - A collaborative AI workspace
- @nami_hq - A decentralized cloud platform
- @pawtatofinance - A DeFi dapp aggregator and wallet manager

Thank You, Tusky

Huge thanks to the Tusky team, founded with the mission of empowering true data ownership. As early believers in Walrus, they helped prove that decentralized storage can support real products and users at scale.

We're proud of the work we did together as technical partners 🦭
https://x.com/TuskyTools/status/2001989216297755119

This is a hard update to share.

After a lot of consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to begin a planned shutdown of Tusky.

From the earliest days of Walrus developer preview through testnet and mainnet, this community helped turn Tusky into something real. To date,

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DeFi+L1L2 Update:

• U.S. SEC implicitly approved the DTC to offer RWA services on pre-approved blockchains
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The Stocks Power-Up Campaign is live 📢

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📅 Round 8: Dec 17 - 31
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⚽ The Road to Budapest Trading Tournament [League Phase Round Eight] is live in the Crypto.com Exchange Trading Arena

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We've got 2,000 US$10 $BTC stocking stuffers to give out this holiday season 🎁

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