# EVM x Sui I Alvaro Lillo

- Channel: [ETHGlobal](https://streameth.org/ethglobal)
- Date: 2026-08-09
- Duration: 11:07
- Topics: Sui, Alvaro Lillo, ETHGlobal New York 2026, EVM, Walrus, decentralized storage, Walrus Memory, AI agents, agent memory, Move, Sui plugin, Claude Code, LSP, dApps, IPFS, Filecoin, Arweave, object model, smart contracts, Solidity, testnet, faucets, product-market fit, existing project track, new project track, prizes, hackathon, encrypted storage, Walrus Harbor, decentralized cloud, programmable storage, builder growth, workshop, digital assets, access control
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-Y6OWZa2TyRY
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6OWZa2TyRY

## Description

In this workshop at ETHGlobal New York 2026, Alvaro Lillo, a solutions engineer on Sui's builder growth team, walks hackers through the Sui prizes and, most importantly, how to integrate Walrus, Sui's decentralized storage solution, with EVM dApps. Alongside his colleague Ralph at the booth, he shares a collection of resources, starting with example integrations showing how to swap a typical IPFS or Filecoin setup for Walrus in common use cases. He highlights a newly released product, Walrus Memory, built on top of Walrus for storing encrypted memories from AI agents, which he suggests is useful for anyone doing agent work. He also points to a Sui plugin that helps implement anything on the Sui stack by injecting the docs (noting it is token-expensive, so use it deliberately) and integrating a Move language server, which is handy since that is not built into Claude Code, the tool he hopes most hackers will use this weekend.

Alvaro explains how the prizes are structured around the hackathon's two main tracks. For the existing project track, the focus is on projects swapping their decentralized storage integration for Walrus, judged primarily on product-market fit rather than novel uses of Move, since the goal is products with existing traction and users that are ready to go to market. A portion of the pool is reserved for the new project track, where builders can create anything entirely on Sui using Move or integrating Walrus or another part of the stack. He points to links, faucets for testnet tokens, and QR codes at the booth. In an extended Q&A, he clarifies that Walrus is programmable decentralized storage infrastructure (not a single product), that the decentralized cloud people remember is just a product built on top of it (like Walrus Harbor), that Walrus is far faster than IPFS and Arweave on both uploads and retrievals, and that it can store anything, not just web3 data. He explains Walrus is built using Sui, relying on Sui's smart contracts to coordinate storage, and that Sui's object-oriented model provides built-in security around digital assets, making access control and complex data structures much easier to manage than in Solidity, before sending everyone off to build.

00:00 Introduction
00:12 Welcome to the Sui Workshop
00:45 Meet Alvaro and Ralph at the Booth
01:14 A Collection of Resources to Check
01:14 Integrating Walrus With EVM dApps
01:46 Introducing Walrus Memory for Agents
02:20 The Sui Plugin and Move Language Server
02:49 Why It Helps Claude Code Users
03:20 How the Prizes Are Structured
03:46 The Existing Project Track and Product-Market Fit
04:13 The New Project Track on Sui
04:46 Links, Faucets, and Testnet Tokens
05:14 Q&A: What Excites You the Most
06:07 Q&A: How to Think About Walrus Today
06:59 Walrus as Programmable Storage Infrastructure
07:16 Q&A: Building Without Walrus
07:40 Q&A: Help With Move Coding
08:06 Q&A: Walrus vs IPFS and Arweave
08:31 Q&A: Faster Uploads and Retrievals
08:52 Q&A: Is Walrus Only for Web3
09:07 Q&A: How Walrus Uses Sui
09:29 Q&A: Sui's Object-Oriented Model
10:08 Why Access Control Is Easier Than Solidity
10:31 Closing

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*ETHGlobal New York 2026*
This workshop is specifically for ETHGlobal New York 2026, a 3-day hackathon held June 12-14 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, bringing together the most skilled web3 developers, designers and product builders from all around the globe for a weekend-long adventure to advance the Ethereum ecosystem! Watch the full ETHGlobal New York 2026 playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXzKMXK2aHh7MZ8T-ict6YshkFDw9WJCu

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