THE PEOPLE WANT THE POAPS

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THIRD PARTY TIME — VOTECASTER x POAP

Votecaster is a Farcaster client that enables users to vote in polls and participate in governance directly from their timeline via Frames, ensuring the highest standards of verifiability, security, and flexibility thanks to the underlying Vocdoni Protocol. It’s the only Farcaster polling system that allows for the creation of verifiable and decentralized polls.

Votecaster’s simplified participation has resulted in unmatched voter turnout rates; polls can easily be gated to specific groups, such as members of Farcaster channels, or holders of specific POAPs.

This type of filtering can unlock community-building use cases such as engaging POAP collectors from specific events, or engaging people who minted your personal “You Met Me” POAP. Poll creators can also send the poll directly to the Farcaster inboxes of eligible voters.

There’s plenty coming up on the roadmap — expect more on this POAP integration in future newsletters!

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COOL DROPS

• Check out Isabel’s blog post previewing the upcoming POAP Rally in Tokyo, where collectors can visit historic shrines and temples and mint POAPs based on GPS location via the new POAP Home mobile app:

• The rally is one of many POAP highlights this summer in Tokyo. This past week, ZKsync, Scaffold-ETH, Puffer, and PizzaDAO dropped POAPs during EDCON 2024, a community Ethereum development conference committed to serving the Ethereum ecosystem by boosting communication and engagement between Ethereum communities worldwide:

• Funding the Commons Tokyo, in collaboration with DeSci Tokyo and Plurality Tokyo, dropped a POAP at their conference at the United Nations University Center in Shibuya. Funding the Commons was held the day before EDCON 2024, promoting cross-pollination of attendees and ideas at the two blockchain-centric events.
• ArtVerse Gallery in Paris has started dropping a POAP for attending an exhibition featuring artists Foodmasku and Tommy Hollenstein. Foodmasku creates face masks with food, and has previously done some innovative POAP Drops. Hollenstein paints using the wheels of wheelchair. The exhibit will feature both individual and collaborative work, and runs through September 8, coinciding with the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris. The POAP Moments have already begun!

• ALLSHIPS dropped another POAP, as they continue their series of Drops this summer in New York City and add to their growing POAP Collection. This event featured the Ledger team showcasing the world’s first secure touchscreen, the Ledger Stax.
• To celebrate the Ethereum Spot ETF opening in the United States, a POAP was sold with funds donated to Aestus Relay:

• ETHAccra x The Graph dropped a POAP for participating in their campus tour and Zero to Dapp Workshop held at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kwam Nkrumah University of Science in Technology
• After a successful initial POAP Drop at EthCC, the ON AIR community dropped their second POAP at a summer picnic event in Brooklyn — and shared some nice POAP Moments from the park.
• German cognitive psychologist Wolfgang Prinz is giving out a You Met Me POAP this summer, and also has POAP resources displayed at his office in Hürth:

• Chainlink and Zcash dropped POAPs at Blockchain Rio.
• Octant set up a POAP Delivery for anyone who donated or became a full patron during their Epoch 4 public goods funding round.
• Bitso dropped another POAP at a coworking day in Argentina:

• Drops dropping at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, including You Met Me POAPs.
• POAPs at meetups in Vietnam, Tokyo, Tegucigalpa, Singapore, Brazil, Bolivia, Accra, Nairobi, and Mexico.