You hung out and dropped some pixels on the POAP.art canvas to celebrate the Rocket Pool launch!

In recognition of Kron as the moderator of the Rocket Pool Discord server. Kron, our beloved mod, has been protecting the community from bots, spam, and malicious behavior for years. This POAP was presented to Kron on the day of the Rocket Pool mainnet launch (Nov, 9 2021) to thank him for his steadfast service to and love of the Rocket Pool community. In celebration of Kron's contribution to community building, the RP community's artists got together for a friendly competition to see who could create the best commemorative POAP design. This POAP is a set of 4 independent designs that were selected by #trading. The wining design was used as a community shared POAP claimable by all those present at the launch. The remaining three top designs were each a single (1 of 1) POAP mint gifted to Kron. The artist of this design was sleety.eth#6052 Review the designs at https://github.com/rel0aded/kron-appreciation-poap-contest/blob/main/README.md Poll Results: https://poap.vote/poll/144

Over 4 years ago Rocket Pool was born as an idea for the first ever decentralized staking project for Ethereum. Today we're extremely excited to announce... again, decentralized staking will be a reality on mainnet from 9th November, 2021 00:00 UTC*, just 4 days away! Front end deposits for rETH will open first, then node registrations will be opened about 5m after. We've pioneered a solution to the very esoteric exploit that was raised just a day before our initial planned launch date. This exploit not only affected us, but several other live staking platforms as well. The solution has been verified by Sigma Prime and we have upgraded our initial mainnet deployment of Rocket Pool smart contracts and also our smart node stack to bring it inline with these changes. The full report for that can be found here https://rocketpool.net/files/SigmaPri... To say this launch is huge milestone for the team... again, and our beloved community would be an epic understatement. Rocket Pool isn't just a standard Ethereum project anymore, it really has become a collective of devs and community combined that have helped craft a once good idea, into a great one.

Right when we thought launch was nigh, it was ripped from us by a white-hat guy. How long will it be? We shall see, per diem. When will our time come? Soon™.

On 4th of October a white hat (who chose to remain anonymous) revealed a potential critical exploit in the node side of protocol that could allow an operator to submit previously made withdrawal credentials for a minipool. In the matter of hours the Rocket Pool team examined the sophisticated node exploit and designed a fix for it.

Rocket Pool is hitting mainnet on October 6th after 4 years of development time! As such, the Rocket Pool community has organized a series of POAPs and raffles honoring communities that share a similar ethos to Rocket Pool. Many of us in the Rocket Pool community have seen the potential of POAP and have embraced it fully into commemorating both large and small events that shape Rocket Pool's past, present, and future. A special thank you to Patricio Worthalter for supporting the Rocket Pool community and providing such a great tool as Proof of Attendance Protocol.

On October 3rd, 2021 Langers from the Rocket Pool team published the full audit results (https://discordapp.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163979141545995/894372662795731003). With less than 48 hours before the Rocket Pool Ethereum Mainnet launch, there is nothing left to do. This is the clam before the storm. All systems nominal - we are go for launch. To celebrate this moment in time, the official "calm before the storm" POAP was distributed and the Rocket Pool Ethereum Mainnet Poster NFT was officially revealed.