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

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.

While the wonderful world of POAP continues to flourish, Rocket Pool shares this token of gratitude to Patricio Worthalter. As the founder of POAP, he has helped to enrich our lives through the preservation of memories, using technology which continues to amaze. His contributions to POAP and Rocket Pool have sown the seeds to a bright web3 future ahead.

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.