This week we welcomed Matias and Leo to the team. And we all struggled reading looooong updates.

Owning this POAP means you supported the POAP x ETHGlobal Cannes Hackers Contest, held from June 9th to 18th, 2025. The POAP x ETHGlobal Hackers Contest is a grants initiative awarding three prizes of $1,500 each to winning hacker submissions, to help cover travel and accommodation costs. By minting this POAP via POAP Airship, you're directly supporting hackers traveling to Cannes, as all proceeds will be added to the prize pool—on top of the grants mentioned above. Additionally, you'll be entered into a raffle for exclusive POAP Swag Bags, which will be drawn live via POAP Fun Now on June 20th, 2025.

The sandbox canvas makes it back with brand new features. Hope you all had lots of fun.

Not fully ours, but definitely one of us. This POAP marks a "led-gin-dairy" era of contributions—offering commitment, Zap-fueled genius, creativity, and just the right amount of chaos. You’ve helped shape what POAP is today, and while you’re not technically leaving, we’re still weirdly sentimental about it. Thanks for everything, Steve—you’ll always be POAP-core. Good luck on your PG tour, mate! P.S. Tell me a joke 😉

Where learning and location met, the POAP team set the stage for a new kind of adventure. Introducing POAP University and Location distribution for all issuers to explore.

US started the trade war by firing 11 to 104% tariffs around the world. China retaliated with their own tariffs against the US.

In this Tech Weekly, we kicked off the meeting discussing backend documentation. While opinions varied, we agreed to start a repo using Bruno to share and test our endpoints. We also touched on our data layer, mentioning some areas to improve query performance. Our notification system is now more flexible. Lastly, engineering expenses came up briefly as something to keep an eye on. As a fun highlight, Nacho surprised everyone with a new setup and a racing wheel, it's rumored he's been coding with it ever since. 🏎️💻

Thank you for joining us on stream to watch the raffles for the ETHDenver GPS POAP and POAP Art February Canvas competitions. We wish you the best of luck!