How to Make Great POAP Drops
In this guide we highlight how to create great messaging, how to make collecting a great experience, and most importantly, how to make your POAPs memorable.
Archive
A collection of 138 issues
February 11th, 2025
Paris plays ball. Road to EthPrague. POAP Studio in Roblox, plus new features in POAP Home, fun for passionate collectors, and more!
POAPs for X Spaces: A Handy Guide
We've seen a lot of POAPs be made over the years, but here are some that have stood out for their creative approaches. Check out these stories from Bankless, World of Women, and Degen for how to integrate POAP into your next X Space, or scroll right to "Keys for success" for the main takeaways.
POAP kicks off 2025!
January 21, 2025. This Week in POAP, we see a POAP for the great Reddit M.E.R.G.E. Plus product updates, a raffle, and drops from Bankless, Rocket Pool, EFP, Degen, and other friends of POAP.
Year in POAP: Looking back on 2024
This year has been massive for POAP, Ethereum, and the broader blockchain community. Look back on 2024 with us to remember the good times that were had by all, and get some sneak peaks at what lies ahead.
Week in POAP: The Devcon Issue
This Week in POAP covers the most memorable parts of the biggest Ethereum event of the year, as told through the POAP ecosystem.
Week in POAP
Highlights from VeeCon 2024, the second anniversary of the Merge, and cool POAPs by issuers around the world.
Week in POAP
Highlights from Farcaster Fridays meetups worldwide, notable POAP drops in Seoul, Warsaw, and Toronto, and insights into the new POAP Collections feature.
Week in POAP
Highlights from Ethereum Veracruz, Korea Blockchain Week, and global meetups in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, and more.
Week in POAP
Highlights from the POAP Rally in Tokyo, Bright Moments exhibitions in New York and Berlin, and Aleph popup city events in Buenos Aires.
Week in POAP
Highlights from the POAP Stamp Rally in Tokyo, Stand with Crypto in Canada, and events in NYC, London, and Buenos Aires.
Week in POAP
Highlights from the launch of POAP Home v1.4.0, the new artist attribution feature, and notable POAP drops from Chimpers, OpenZeppelin, and Beeple Studios.
Week in POAP
Highlights from the Bright Moments gallery screening in Venice, Lens x ALLSHIPS book club in NYC, and Ethereum’s ninth birthday celebrations in Kyiv and Vancouver.
Week in POAP
Highlights from EDCON 2024 in Japan, and events in Paris, New York City, and Argentina.
Week in POAP
Highlights from the launch of POAP Beacons, reflections on past POAP events, and notable drops from communities worldwide.
Week in POAP
Highlights from EthCC and EthGlobal in Brussels, including over 300 POAPs dropped, the launch of POAP Moments, and notable community events.
Week in POAP
Highlights from EthCC[7] in Brussels, including the f/cc Farcaster event, Mensa’s Annual Gathering in Kansas City, and Richie Hawtin’s show in Germany.
Week in POAP
Highlights from artist Ahol Sniffs Glue’s global trash pickup event, Stand with Crypto’s watch party in New York, and Ethereum Chile 2024 in Santiago.
Week in POAP
Highlights from the POAP scavenger hunt in Rosario, Filmnächte am Elbufer in Dresden, and CryptoPunks’ 2nd annual birthday bash in New York.
Week in POAP
POAP Delivery 2.0 launched with a refreshed design and improved user experience. Notable POAP drops include zkSync’s token launch, The Graph’s Sunrise Parties, and Richie Hawtin’s shows in Athens and Barcelona.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include the Swiss Web3 Fest’s scavenger hunt, Bhutan’s first NFT hackathon, and the Burning Man’s Burners Without Borders Summit.
Week in POAP
Highlights from Consensus 2024, NFC Summit in Lisbon, and cool POAPs dropped by communities worldwide, including Doodles, RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign, and EthPrague, EthDublin, and EthBelgrade.
Week in POAP
Third-party POAP innovations at Warpcast, unique drops from Coinbase to Bundesnachrichtendienst (the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany) and the School of Visual Arts, and global community celebrations from Bitcoin Pizza Day to conferences, festivals, and blockchain gatherings around the world.
Week in POAP
POAP Drops Delegation launches, Etherscan adds POAP Cards, and global community events from Berlin's Dappcon to Farcaster meetups celebrate Web3 connections.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include Dappcon Berlin, ETHBratislava, Richie Hawtin’s show in Paris, and global meetups in cities like Kuala Lumpur, Paris, and Buenos Aires.
Week in POAP
FarCon 2024 featured 29 POAP drops, with 1,771 POAPs minted by 616 collectors. Other notable drops included Beeple Studios’ event in Charleston, the Central Bank of Hungary at the Dubai FinTech Summit, and Richie Hawtin’s show in Buenos Aires.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include Bored Ape Yacht Club’s third anniversary, ETHBoston 2024, and Farcaster community events in Singapore and Miami.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at Token2049 in Dubai, Richie Hawtin’s shows in Tokyo and Milan, and Farcaster community events in Boston and Chicago.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at the Harvard Blockchain Conference in Cambridge, ETHDam 2024 in Amsterdam, and SheFi’s event in New York discussing the next Bitcoin halving.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at NFT NYC, including CryptoPunks’ Punks Brunch and VanEck’s event at the New York Stock Exchange. Additional drops at Paris Blockchain Week and the EthereumZuri.ch conference.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at ETH Bucharest, NFT Factory Paris’s Next Step Party, and Imperial College Business School’s Admitted Student Day in London.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at the Rugby Europe Championships in Paris, Grant Yun’s solo exhibition in Seoul, and Farcaster meetups in Taipei and Tokyo.
Week in POAP
The Ethereum network’s Dencun upgrade was commemorated with a POAP, raising over $100,000 for Smoothly, supporting Ethereum solo stakers. Notable POAP drops at ETHGlobal London included Gnosis Pay, ApeCoin, and The Graph.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at South by Southwest in Austin, Gnosis Chain’s Dencun hard fork celebration, and Farcaster community meetups in Zurich and Paris.
Week in POAP
Over 900 POAP drops at ETHDenver 2024, including general attendance, scavenger hunts, and meetups by SheFi, ENS, and Bankless. Additional drops by Bored Ape Yacht Club, Richie Hawtin in San Francisco, and SuperPuma at Puma’s headquarters.
Week in POAP
POAP had a significant presence at NFT Paris, with drops from Bright Moments Gallery, World of Women, and Yuga Labs. POAP Places launched at the Napa Valley Museum’s Warrior Dogs exhibit.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at Farcaster community meetups in New York, Paris, and Singapore, and Škoda’s meta-human founder interaction.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops at NFT Factory Paris’s Founders Pizza Day, Chimpers’ Chimpreneurship show launch, and World of Women’s NFT Paris Megaspace.
Week in POAP
ENS announced ENS cards for ETHDenver 2024, featuring built-in POAP integration. Quidli introduced a POAP integration for Discord and Slack, enabling in-app POAP distribution. Vitalik Buterin discussed POAPs in his latest blog post on creating a trustworthy, democratic, and decentralized tech stack.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include Bored Ape Yacht Club’s community feedback survey, Ledger x Bright Moments’ NFT regulation talk at the House of Commons in London, and Farcaster’s community event in Paris.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include EthStaker’s commemoration of the Goerli testnet upgrade to Dencun, a treasure hunt at Rusutsu Resort in Japan, and 1inch’s “DEXing in the Alps” party in Davos.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include a Gary Gensler-themed POAP commemorating the SEC’s erroneous Bitcoin ETF approval tweet, CryptoPunks’ meetup in Malibu, and 1inch’s Institutions and DeFi event in Davos.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include AlpsDAO’s Winter Noggle POAP Quest at Rusutsu Resort in Japan, a POAP for visiting the POAP office in Buenos Aires, and Stefan Oelrich’s POAP at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
Week in POAP
Notable POAP drops include Adidas’s two-year Web3 anniversary, Beeple Studios’ Winter Wonderland event, and The Graph’s third birthday celebrations in San Francisco, Buenos Aires, New Delhi, and Tokyo.
Year in POAP
Highlights from the past year in the POAP ecosystem!
Week in POAP
Discover exciting POAP use cases, product launches, and POAPs spotted in the wild.
Week in POAP
Discover exciting POAP use cases, product launches, and POAPs spotted in the wild.
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem.
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem.
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem
Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The latest news from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
News and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Week in POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
The hottest news and updates from the POAP ecosystem.
This Is POAP
CURATION BODY UPDATE 🗞️The POAP Curation Body recently released the POAP Issuer Guidelines. Feedback on these guidelines is invaluable and the broader POAP community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the discussion on Discourse. HYPE * CMSWire published a Web3 explainer for brands that discussed benefits of using POAPs. * The BizBash
This Is POAP
Press mentions and happenings in the world of POAP.
This Is POAP
Press mentions and happenings in the world of POAP.
This Is POAP
Press mentions and happenings in the world of POAP
This Is POAP
Press mentions and happenings in the world of POAP.
This Is POAP
Press clips and happenings in the world of POAP
This Is POAP
HYPE * Spruce blogged [https://blog.spruceid.com/why-sign-in-with-ethereum-is-a-game-changer-part-2/] about why Sign-In with Ethereum is a game-changer for user choice on the internet and mentioned POAPs. * The Ethereum Foundation is using a product [https://devcon.poap.xyz/] built by POAP as part of their application [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
This Is POAP
Press mentions and happenings in the world of POAP.
This Is POAP
HYPE * Harper's Bazaar published [https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/beauty/a40046366/beauty-metaverse/] an article on beauty brands entering the metaverse and discussed how POAPs play an important role. * Complex wrote [https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/how-to-experience-complexland-3.0-2022/nft] about their upcoming metaverse event and associated POAPs. * Artribune covered
This Is POAP
HYPE * Vogue published [https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/proofs-of-attendance-are-web3s-new-status-symbol] an article on POAPs as "Web3's new status symbol," which included quotes from POAP founder Patricio Worthalter. The article specifically focused on the prevalence of POAPs in the fashion industry, with passages such as: POAPs were significant
This Is POAP
HYPE * There were POAPs at the inaugural "Strength of a Woman Festival and Summit" presented by Pepsi and Mary J. Blige. NFTEvening covered the story (twice), as did eGamers.io. Â After the event, there was high praise for POAP on LinkedIn and Twitter: Fun onboarding moment for event
This Is POAP
HYPE * Bloomberg wrote about early-stage crypto VC firm Archetype closing a $150 million funding round, and mentioned its previous investment in POAP Inc. * Billboard covered the WMG x POAP partnership. * Pray.com, which reaches 10 million people through its mobile app and website, issued a press release regarding upcoming plans
This Is POAP
PRESS * The Daily Beast asked, "why the hell are people are getting married in the metaverse?" and the article include a tweet that mentioned POAP. * Yahoo! Finance picked up a press release on "Metaverse & Web3 Day" at International Music Summit Ibiza, at which there will
This Is POAP
KnownOrigin launched their new feature that enables gated sales (AKA early access drops) on the KO NFT marketplace. Part of this integration allows creators to provide early access to their work, and/or access at a lower price, for holders of specific POAPs: Sam Durrani, Dev Project Lead at KO,
This Is POAP
THIRD PARTY TIME A lot happening with POAP integrations this week: * GitPOAP officially launched and held a painting party via POAP.art to celebrate. See this tweet for a time-lapse of the POAP.art canvas. The painting party livestream featured employees from GitHub and POAP's own Patricio Worthalter.
This Is POAP
IN THE NEWS * A press release for "the first book launch in the metaverse" (there was a POAP at the event) was picked up by multiple outlets, including Yahoo! Finance. CoinGape also published some interactive content for the book launch. * Gate.io blogged about POAPs. * Ad Age wrote
This Is POAP
IN THE NEWS * Estee Lauder sent out a press release regarding their participation in Metaverse Fashion Week, where they dropped a POAP, and it was picked up by Yahoo! Finance in multiple languages, and 10+ other outlets. The story was also mentioned in Lifestyle Asia. * CMSWire included POAP in their
This Is POAP
IN THE NEWS * The Austin-American Statesmen wrote a guide to "high-tech jargon" for SXSW. POAP was one of only seven cryptobiquitous terms included. The other six: Web3, metaverse, blockchain, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and DAO. * A Time cover profile on Vitalik Buterin linked to his "Soulbound" blog post
This Is POAP
IN THE NEWS * The Ledger x POAP partnership (Ledger tweet), for which people received POAPs for presale orders of the Ledger Nano S Plus Genesis Edition, got a lot of press coverage, including in The Crypto Times, NFT World News, Cointelegraph (also Spanish, German, Portugese), NFT Innovation Digest, Block-chain-24 (Russian)
POAP Weekly: March 8, 2022
IN THE NEWS * Decrypt was one of many publications to cover the crypto donations to the Ukrainian government, UkraineDOA, and subsequent POAPs. * More Ukraine x POAP news: Decrypt again, Crypto Potato, Crypto Briefing, WION, AMBCrypto (Spanish), Cryptotendencias (Spanish), HTML.it (Italian), Observatorio Blockchain (Spanish), Verslas (Lithuanian), Benzinga, Crypto Insiders (Dutch)
POAP Weekly: March 1, 2022
IN THE NEWS * The International Business Times wrote about the formation of UkraineDAO and the sale of a 1/1 NFT of the Ukrainian flag to raise funds for Ukraine; anyone who purchases fractionalized ownership of the NFT will receive a POAP. * The UkraineDAO news (and anticipated POAP) was also