Ether first crossed $4,000 in October 2021, at the time it was near the end of a wild bull run. Today we passed $4k for the second time, nearly 30 months later, with a totally new perspective: this feels more like the beginning of a new bull cycle than the end of one. Congratulations to developers, operators, and community members who worked hard to bring value to Ether. Art by /u/Few-Bake-6463, POAP developed by superphiz.

This POAP celebrates that its owner has not been rugged by nuwtox (yet). The POAP is claimable for the Iron Hand Holders of the "Layer Zero" NFT, which is a collection of 32 NFTs that have attracted a standing collection offer of up to 1 ETH pre-rug.

This POAP was given out to the EIPandas holders who contributed during Gitcoin Grants Round 15.

The Ethereum Mainnet merged with the Beacon Chain proof-of-stake network on September 15, 2022. This marks the end of proof-of-work for Ethereum and a full transition to proof-of-stake. This historic upgrade is projected to reduce the Ethereum network's energy consumption by over 99% and sets the stage for future upgrades to further scale the Ethereum network. Holders of this POAP were there to witness the Ethereum Mainnet Merge with the rest of the community and signaled their support to the core developers of this enormous undertaking by sending roughly $10 of ETH to the Protocol DAO, directly funding protocol contributors. Special thanks to all of the client teams, researchers and core developers of the Ethereum Protocol, and to community leaders The Daily Gwei, Bankless, Ethereum Cat Herders, The Ethereum Foundation and EthStaker for their support in preparing the world for this moment. -https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ -https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ -https://www.ethereumcatherders.com/ -https://ethereum.org/en/ -https://ethstaker.cc/

This POAP is meant to commemorate The Merge on the Ethereum protocol. We, the fine people of r/ethfinance, have been counting down the days to this historical event. Literally. Everyday u/Moschus11 has been posting a countdown to the estimated merge date and the fellow subredditors have been upvoting, downvoting, correcting, criticising, reviewing, validating his best guess. As a small token of appreciation to our little corner of the internet he would like to hand out this POAP to remember The Merge, but more so the countdown itself. Because, after all, the journey is the reward.

This POAP celebrates the contributions of https://bordel.wtf to all of our shared anticipation as we move closer to the merge. Bordel.wtf is developed by Mario Havel (https://twitter.com/TMIYChao) through the Ethereum Foundation as a way to track Total Terminal Difficulty (TTD) as we near the merge. Bordel.wtf has become an indispensable tool for anyone who is looking forward to the merge. Funds raised from this POAP through poap-checkout will support the Bordel Hackerspace in Prague (https://bordel.paralelnipolis.cz). The image for this POAP was developed by veryunimportantperson#6806@discord through poapathon.com.

The Goerli Testnet successfully merged the Execution and Consensus clients on August 10th, 2022. Holders of this POAP were there for this historical moment, and also supported $2 or more to Coin Center, a non-profit focused on crypto policy. Next up, Mainnet! - https://www.coincenter.org/ - https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ - https://ethereum.org/en/ - https://ethstaker.cc/

This POAP recognizes holders of the EVMavericks NFT delivered to regular participants in the reddit.com/r/ethfinance subreddit. This POAP doesn't recognize the original recipients, rather, it recognizes those who held the NFT after the deployment was completed. POAP image provided by @Woh, deployment by superphiz using poap.delivery

On January 29, 2022, a very generous person in the Daily General Discussion in the r/ethfinance subreddit gilded every single comment to the main thread with Reddit Gold. To honor this event, this POAP will be given to every person who made a comment that day!