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Week in POAP: The Devcon Issue

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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: The Devcon Issue

Minting Ethereum history with POAP

Devcon is the biggest event where the Ethereum community comes together, so it felt only natural to celebrate the occasion with a precious digital collectible from POAP. POAP #178416, Devcon Southeast Asia 2024, was given out on small cards with unique QR codes, carefully handed to each person. Each card could be used to mint one POAP, so that the list of collectors would be accurate for future use.


Exactly 1200 lucky people also received a precious physical collectible: a small enamel pin featuring art from Devcon 7 SEA. Because this item can be held in your hand, it feels more real to collectors.

Even so, the digital version is easier to share, lasts longer, and can be used in many helpful and creative ways. For example, POAP #178416 has had 125 Moments created, which all 4,462 collectors can easily see on POAP Home.


All together, people who collected any POAP from the Devcon 7 SEA Collection created over 700 Moments. This makes it the first Ethereum event where many people used POAP Moments, a new product from POAP that helps people record meaningful things that happened in their lives.

Using POAPs to organize media is revolutionary, because it means that memories can now be connected forever to the moment in time where they were made, through the people who were there. In the past, photos and videos would get lost in digital space, but with POAP Moments, we can look forward to a bright future where people can easily revisit their favorite memories by looking back at the POAPs they love.

Have fun connecting with POAP Home

Sharing "You've Met Me" POAPs has become a favorite tradition in the Ethereum community, and this year's Devcon was no different. During Devcon week, 3,983 POAPs were minted by 707 POAP community members meeting each other. Big thanks to matoken, Chee, and Lamboshi for helping spread the POAP joy!

Many POAP community members used the new POAP Dispenser feature in POAP Home to make sharing POAPs super easy. Just add the drop ID and passcode, or scan the QR code with POAP Drops if you're near your computer. Both individuals and teams used the POAP Dispenser to spread joy in the community.

A special shout-out to the ENS team for the NFC cards given out at frENS Day — they were a big hit! Here's a little secret: you can reprogram these cards to use at future events, so be sure to keep yours safe.

Find POAPs with GPS! 

Using GPS to mint POAPs is a feature we've all been waiting for, and it's finally here! Besides the main POAP of the conference, Bangkok had a second POAP that all POAP fans could mint using the "Scan Location" feature in POAP Home. To thank the community members who helped test this new feature, POAP Inc is planning to give away a prize of 1 ETH to one lucky person who minted POAP #179606. Details about the draw will be announced soon, so keep an eye on @poapxyz.

GPS POAPs are currently available in a limited release by request for certain uses. We expect the feature will be available to the POAP issuer community in early 2025.

Special Mentions

  • POAP Collections have been added to the mobile app, making it easy to see the rankings of collectors in any POAP Collection. Check out the leaderboards for matoken, Lamboshi, and ENS.
  • The EthGlobal hackathon had a great selection of POAPs from The Graph, Curvegrid, Blockscout, 1inch, Nethermind, Nouns Fair @ ETHGlobal Bangkok, and others for collectors to find. With the new Organizations feature, these POAPs will appear together in a special Collection for each Organization.
  • Worthalter gave talks at Industry Day and Devcon. Each talk came with a collectible for everyone there, but eager collectors could also get them through POAP Airship by sending a tip for the talk.
  • iSpeakNerd.eth created a special Frame to invite POAP holders into /tabletop during the EthBangkok hackathon. You can host it yourself here: https://github.com/iSpeakNerd/poap-invites-frame

Community highlights

Notable occasions

Professional pop-ups

Cozy vibes

Quests and journeys

Community moments

Road to Devcon

  • MegaZu, Chiang Mai, 2024: A POAP for being part of a month long residency program for builders shipping real world applications on Ethereum. 
  • SEAPUNK Symposium 2024: A POAP for learning about network nations, pop up cities, care chains and more at the SEAPUNK Symposium. 
  • Road to Devcon: A POAP for the Road to Devcon event at Zo House. 
  • DeSci & ReFi Summit - Bangkok 2024: A POAP for the DeSci & ReFi Summit, sponsored by the Ethereum Foundation and presented by DeSci Thailand. 

Teams

For more memorable moments from Devcon, check out the official Devcon POAP Collection here.

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