This POAP commemorates our special Community Hour held on May 22, 2025—the 15th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day 🍕. Together with Linera’s community of builders and believers, we explored the historical arc from early cryptography to peer-to-peer money to real-time microchains. Thanks for being here early. The future is scaling—chain by chain. ⛓️

Inaugural mint to commemorate the launch of the Public Goods Network (PGN), an L2 aimed at revolutionizing the funding of global public goods. This POAP celebrates the pioneering participants who minted the first ever PGN NFT on Zora in July 2023, marking the launch of PGN's mainnet. This foundational NFT, symbolizes the commitment of our community to foster and finance initiatives that support public goods. Eligibility for this POAP is exclusively granted to those who engaged directly in the minting of this inaugural NFTs, directly contributing to the kickoff of PGN. This digital token serves not only as a token of appreciation but as a lasting memento of the role our community played in the early stages of a network designed to support and sustain public goods projects across the globe. By owning this POAP, participants hold a piece of history—a reminder of their active role in a movement set to reshape how public goods are funded and managed, ensuring better futures through innovative blockchain technology.

This week’s Community Hour POAP celebrates an in-depth focus on DeFi on Linera, following our Tuesday Developer Workshop featuring founder Mathieu Baudet, host Danny Greene, and community builder Zhao KK. We explored how Linera’s microchain architecture unlocks ultra-low-latency, end-to-end secure DeFi—including RFQs, real-time orderbooks, peer-to-peer swaps, and auction-style protocols—all scalable via user-owned and temporary chains. We also continued our Games on Microchains challenge and shared updates from the Linera ecosystem.

This week’s Community Hour POAP celebrates our ongoing Games on Microchains developer challenge—we reviewed early submissions and highlighted the creative ways builders are using Linera’s reactive, microchains-based architecture to power onchain games. We also spotlighted our latest Drops campaign encouraging the community to tweet “gmicrochains” to earn XP and rise on the leaderboard. As always, we shared updates on developer workshops, game tournaments, and community happenings. Thanks for staying early with Linera ⛓️

This POAP commemorates our May 1st, 2025 Community Hour celebrating the launch of Drops, Linera’s new social points program. We walked through how to earn XP by completing quests, making referrals, and engaging socially—all as part of Testnet Babbage. Climb the leaderboard, invite your frens, and help shape the real-time blockchain.