The address which minted this POAP participated in the KZG Summoning Ceremony: a publicly coordinated ritual to produce a random output. This output will be used in Proto-Danksharding, aka EIP 4844: an Ethereum scaling mechanism which will hopefully enable lower Layer 2 fees and greater global accessibility. EIP-4844 is expected to go live with the Dencun network upgrade in the near future. As of the time of writing, this ceremony was the largest setup of this kind when considering the number of contributions.

We want to celebrate the community members of our public goods funding ecosystem. Many of you have participated in donating to public goods, or have been an integral community member supporting these great projects in a variety of ways. Epoch Zero is a one-time funding event, where Golem Foundation & Octant will be donating 1 million dollars to public goods projects: Clr.fund, DAO Drops, Drips, Ethereum Cat Herders, ETHStaker, Giveth, Gitcoin, Kernel, Protocol Guild, & Supermodular. To say thank you to donors of public goods projects, we want to distribute this POAP to community members who care about funding public goods. Join us as we aim to elevate the ecosystem with a variety of experiments via the staking rewards of up to 100,000ETH.

To our valiant beta testers, we offer our heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering commitment and invaluable contributions to the launch of Unlockd. Your testing, feedback, and support in the early stages of our protocol have been instrumental in shaping the future of decentralized finance and unlocking the full value of NFTs. You are the trailblazers of a revolutionary era where financial freedom is within reach for all. Your bravery and determination in embracing this new frontier have inspired everyone on the Unlockd team — we are truly honored to have you as part of our epic journey. This commemorative virtual badge serves as a lasting symbol of your participation in the very first Unlockd Testnet and a proud reminder of your pioneering spirit. Only those who were part of this historical moment (Dec 2022 - Jan 2023) have the honor of owning this treasure that will endure as long as blockchains exist. Here's to a bright future for NFT finance, Unlockd, and The Lockeys!

This POAP is for attending the 19th Guild Community Call where we showed all the new spicy features we've been working on lately, to make both Guild admins and members lives better. Also, this time we shared the latest happenings in the community and introduced the communities who've joined the guilds of Guild since we talked.

Topics for this week: -Product updates -Ecosystem news -POAP & Guild invitees -AMA Thank you for participating! See you at the next one ;)

The Ethereum Mainnet merged with the Beacon Chain proof-of-stake network on September 15, 2022. This marks the end of proof-of-work for Ethereum and a full transition to proof-of-stake. This historic upgrade is projected to reduce the Ethereum network's energy consumption by over 99% and sets the stage for future upgrades to further scale the Ethereum network. Holders of this POAP were there to witness the Ethereum Mainnet Merge with the rest of the community and signaled their support to the core developers of this enormous undertaking by sending roughly $10 of ETH to the Protocol DAO, directly funding protocol contributors. Special thanks to all of the client teams, researchers and core developers of the Ethereum Protocol, and to community leaders The Daily Gwei, Bankless, Ethereum Cat Herders, The Ethereum Foundation and EthStaker for their support in preparing the world for this moment. -https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ -https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ -https://www.ethereumcatherders.com/ -https://ethereum.org/en/ -https://ethstaker.cc/

On Friday, August 12th @ 3:00PM UTC EthStaker core members, Yorick, Remy Roy, and myself with be hosting a Valiidator workshop. This will be a goerli post-merge workshop and provide you with the steps necessary to test setting up your mainnet validator. On top of speed running the steps to configure your validator for mainnet, we'll discuss setting up your dashboard for monitoring your validator, review what pruning is and when and how to do it, in addition to having the Stereum team provide an update on their Update/Upkeep challenge. This is also a great oppertunity for those who have questions about staking, the merge and anything in between when we open the livestream up for community Q&A at the end.

EthStaker core crew members Yorick, Remy Roy, and Unvetica host another validator workshop. This time the crew is focused on how to update when running a non-validating RPC node, how to add a 🐼to your graffiti tag, switching from Geth to another client, showing off how to move using coincashews’s setup, in addition to having members from the Stereum team showing how to do merge-ready setup with their platform.

The Goerli Testnet successfully merged the Execution and Consensus clients on August 10th, 2022. Holders of this POAP were there for this historical moment, and also supported $2 or more to Coin Center, a non-profit focused on crypto policy. Next up, Mainnet! - https://www.coincenter.org/ - https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ - https://ethereum.org/en/ - https://ethstaker.cc/

EthStaker core crew members Yorick, Remy Roy, and Unvetica host another validator workshop. This time the crew is focused on how to update when running a non-validating RPC node, how to add a 🐼to your graffiti tag, switching from Geth to another client, showing off how to move using coincashews’s setup, in addition to having members from the Stereum team showing how to do merge-ready setup with their platform.