Thanks for being part of Salsa's first year. Check out our 2023 highlights here: https://wrapped2023.salsa.me

Thank you for attending our weekly Friday community call held on our discord. This week's illustration was created with AI by beastadon and was inspired by one of the topics of our conversations: extremely long, hard to pronounce words!

Thank you for joining us for the third part of spring POAPathon on our discord! Within our community we shared artworks, photos, thoughts and experiences associated with the opportunity spring brings to plant all our favourite veggies, fruits and flowers , and what kind of garden would be a perfect, dream garden. The illustration for this POAP was made by Jeky Jest, who won this week's art contest! "Usually every spring my mom plants many beautiful flowers 🌸 in our garden. It makes her happier. I hope that after the war we will be able to return home and she will be able to do her favorite thing again" - Jeky

You were among the first 1,000 holders of a GitPOAP. Congratulations - you're a pioneer!

GitPOAP hosts Zainan Victor Zhou, who is an EIP editor and author of a new project: ERCRef - a repo for Ethereum builders to build ERC reference implementations. https://github.com/ercref/ercref-contracts We also have a new product that we're excited to announce! It'll make GitPOAP a more versatile tool to recognize contributors and we have an exciting cohort of projects who will be onboarded with its launch.

GitPOAP (gitpoap.io) and EthStaker (twitter.com/ethstaker) cohost Alex Stokes (twitter.com/ralexstokes), a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation who's currently specializing in MEV. We'll talk about his project (github.com/ralexstokes/mev-rs), MEV in general (if you don't understand what MEV is, this is a good place to start!), Alex Stokes the human and, as always, how you can contribute to projects at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem.