POAP Weekly: March 1, 2022

By POAP in Week in POAP — 01 Mar 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 covered in NFTevening, Coinspeaker, HackerNoon, and in Italian on HTML.it.
Salah Zalatimo, CEO of Voice, wrote an article for Adweek on why brands should use NFTs, specifically highlighting POAP as a great option.
TechCrunch covered Katherine Wu's departure from Coinbase Ventures to join early-stage crypto VC firm Archetype, and mentioned Archetype's previous investment in POAP.
A MomentRanks blog post, written by the pseudonymous corporate trash, had a pretty detailed overview of POAPs.
Investing.com published a Crypto Briefing explainer on Decentraland that emphasized that one should collect any and all POAPs encountered in the metaverse due to potential future utility.
The same article in French, via TechTribune.
Investing.com also published something in Portuguese about Ethereum and the metaverse, and quoted Vitalik Buterin's "Soulbound" blog post.
BTC-Echo published something in German that discusses using a Ledger wallet to keep NFTs safe, and mentions Ledger Live integration with POAPs.
Crypto News Flash wrote about play-to-earn gaming and a game called Battle Drones that rewards players with POAPs (editor's note: unable to verify this claim).
Bandwagon Asia wrote about the Singaporean indie band Forests giving away POAPs at their metaverse debut.
A HackerNoon article on MoonDAO mentioned (in a rather confusing paragraph) a MoonDAO POAP.

Happy Carnival

Cool Drops

Swisscom, a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland, intends to use POAPs as part of a mobile phone donation campaign for Ukraine.
As was anticipated from news clips last week, Sotheby's dropped a POAP at the Diriyah Biennale in Saudi Arabia:

A QR code projected on the screen in Diriyah (no farming occurred!)

Richie Hawtin released more POAPs for attending shows and continued to tweet about it:

See everyone Saturday in London! Have your phone ready (before you get on the dance floor) to collect our official FROM OUR MINDS @poapxyz - the future will be brighter for those with FOM/Hawtin POAP’s in their wallets! https://t.co/KDAjklrbQ2
— richiehawtin (@richiehawtin) February 23, 2022

Boy George held a metaverse performance and attendees received a POAP.
Photos and more details on the POAP dropped to commemorate the launch of a collab between the department store Selfridges and the work of artist Victor Vasarely and contemporaries (also see website in Gallery page for more info).

Third Party Time

GitPOAP was featured on the Wholesome Crypto podcast: