This POAP will be issued to anyone who was operating their own Ethereum staking node, either as a solo staker or as a Rocket Pool node operator, as of the time of the merge. The first use of this POAP will be to vote on an art style for a non-transferrable NFT which will be issued to node operators. You can learn more about this project here: https://www.ethstakerincentives.org/ Subsequent uses will be up to the staker community. The list of eligible addresses for this POAP is here: https://github.com/GLCNI/ETH-Solo-Validator-Addresses

The Beacon Chain First 1024 POAP is awarded to each unique address that was in the first 1024 beacon chain deposits and the first 1024 block proposals on the Ethereum 2 Beacon Chain that launched December 1, 2020. This POAP badge was designed by borisblock as part of a design contest held on the POAP discord channel.