Rocket Fuel wishes the Rocket Pool community a wonderful holiday and new year period. This POAP was distributed to people who dropped the 🚀⛽️ emojis on a discord post. This POAP was created by shfryn and distributed by waqwaqattack.

On Dec 2nd, a new account joined the Rocket Pool Discord channel, 'rpl-benefactor'. The person offered three steps, 1) message the benefactor with information about what work you have done for Rocket Pool, 2) send your address, and 3) you would get RPL tokens depending on the work you did. Over the next five days, the benefactor distributed over 1000 RPL tokens to over 160 community members. This POAP commemorates the generosity of the Rocket Pool community. The benefactor's wallet was given 1000 RPL by superphiz who received the tokens from Patricio Worthalter. This POAP was created by Sleety and distributed by WaqWaqAttack.

On December 2, 2022, the Coinbase Assets twitter account announced that they had added the Rocket Pool token (RPL) to their roadmap. A linked blog post indicated that RPL along with three other Ethereum ERC20 tokens were planned for listing on Coinbase at some point in the future. This POAP image was developed by RPLGrime under the mentorship of DrDoofus from the Rocket Pool #Trading discord. The high brow art on the POAP image portrays Rocket Pool smart contract developer Kane as the proud mother of a baby after having had "CEX" with Coinbase. POAP development by Superphiz. Shout out to runner up POAP image designer criminalnoodle. LFO didn't contribute anything. Congratulations on the CEX frens!

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/

EthStaker core members will be joined by members of the Rocket Pool team to discuss the new Redstone upgrade.

On Wednesday, August 17th @ 4:00PM UTC the EthStaker crew will be joined by members of the Swell team. We'll learn more about Swell's permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid staking options - In addition to understanding more about who the team who supports swell, their mission, and what they're planning for in the future in a post-merge world. As always we'll be distributing an official EthStaker Community Call POAP for those who attend the livestream, for those who can't attend the live event, the recording will be published on the EthStaker YouTube channel.