With less than 24hrs to launch, the jubilance is high and mainnet is nigh. A ping signals and #announcements has a notification. Finally the contracts are ready! *eagerly reads message* "We've just been alerted to a potential critical exploit...." Mixed emotions arise, happy to find before mainnet but sad about the delay. The first sells start pouring in. "This is fine" you tell yourself and others. Then the sells start accelerating. You're getting weak in the knees questioning your life choices, then the ground starts to firm up. You see thomasg, looking as strong and chad as ever, holding back the sells and protecting the faithful. The panic subsides and the market calms. We await to see what comes henceforth, but we're confident in the future.

On October 3rd, 2021 Langers from the Rocket Pool team published the full audit results (https://discordapp.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163979141545995/894372662795731003). With less than 48 hours before the Rocket Pool Ethereum Mainnet launch, there is nothing left to do. This is the clam before the storm. All systems nominal - we are go for launch. To celebrate this moment in time, the official "calm before the storm" POAP was distributed and the Rocket Pool Ethereum Mainnet Poster NFT was officially revealed.

For /r/ethtrader members that have participated in Donut liquidity staking.

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.

With the impending mainnet launch for Rocket Pool, the EthStaker crew is hosting a livestream with members of the Rocket Pool team. The EthStaker crew will be posing question to the Rocket Pool team to showcase why their platform is a great option for solicit as a Staking Pool provider. During the livestream POAP 5 of 8 will be distributed, as we lead up to the October 6th Mainnet launch. Full details can be found here: https://ethstaker.cc/rocket-pool-pre-launch-systems-check/

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 owe it to Reddit for the first step. This is thanks for being wonderful hubs of information about the decentralized future. A special thank you to the moderators of these subs for being forgiving to us RPL fanatics and an even more special thank you to everyone that has helped spread knowledge about decentralized staking. Thank you r/ethfinance, r/rocketpool, r/ethereum, and r/ethstaker.

A POAP given out to all holders of Rocket Pool's token, as we hit 13k total holders