On July 17, 2023, a significant event took place within the Rocket Pool community as their Discord server was compromised. During this incident, a fraudulent airdrop was shared, leading to the banning of esteemed members from the server. However, in the face of adversity, the resilient Rocket Pool community united on a secondary server to confront and rectify the situation.

This POAP was issued on January 7th 2022 (Epoch timestamp: 1641560400) in commemoration of Joe Clapis becoming a full-time employee of Rocket Pool. Joe started his journey in 2021 as one of us, the degens in #trading. Because in part of his outstanding work on adapting the RP smart stack for use on ARM based processors including the humble Raspberry Pi, Joe became an employee of Rocket Pool on 4/20. https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163979141545995/834277560959500308 On 12/3/21 Joe announced to #trading that he tendered his resignation to his day-time IRL fiat mining job and would work full-time for Rocket Pool. https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/916468166174072832 The advancement of quantum computing was dealt a severe loss of intellect with Joe’s departure for that field of study. This POAP was distributed to all those that congratulated Joe in celebration of his first full day on the job. We hope this means he will be able to use both hemispheres of his brain on all things Ethereum.