This Week in POAP

COVERAGE

• Blockworks published an overview of how brands are using NFTs and highlighted POAPs as a way for collectors to showcase their involvement and accomplishments within a community.
• NZ Herald published (paywall) a story on the New Zealand national rugby team's use of NFTs and mentioned POAPs.  

THE PEOPLE WANT THE POAPS

recently i learned about @iyk_app and their disc, and how you can dispense @poapxyz with a simple phone tap using both your email or wallet address. this allows people to be using web3 tools without needing to know and making it super seamless.

— VALÉ (@valeinallcaps) May 17, 2023

Gm from the airport heading to @veecon. Bringing @9dccxyz IT-01 through IT-03 so if you see me, say hello and pick up a @poapxyz 🫡 pic.twitter.com/GmiFpYkTaU

— aventurine.9dcc.eth (@aventurine_eth) May 17, 2023

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THIRD PARTY TIME

• Huddle01 published a new blog post on token-gating video calls.

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🍕 COOL DROPS  🍕

• The Coinbase Wallet Bitcoin Pizza Day POAP (tweet) was one of many POAPs celebrating BTC Pizza Day, including POAPs in Australia, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Milan, Córdoba, Madrid, Guatemala City, Venezuela, São Paulo, Santiago, Buenos Aires,  Dallas, Denver, Portland, Chicago, and one at Florida Gulf Coast University that had extra toppings.
• Richie Hawtin dropped a POAP at shows in Buenos Aires, Lima, Bogotá, and Lyon.
• Bayer dropped a POAP for opening a new office in Athens.
• The artist Bryan Brinkman dropped a You Met Me POAP during VeeCon.
• A POAP at the ETHDam hackathon and conference in Amsterdam.
• A POAP at the Crypto and IT Marketing conference in Ukraine.
• A POAP at the Print and Digital Convention in Germany.
• A POAP at a "women in blockchain talk" at Google Berlin.
• POAPs for meetups in India, Las Vegas, Alabama, and Kyiv.
• A baby shower POAP.