Congratulations! You found the Curio Merch POAP! ⭐ This POAP was created to commemorate the first-ever launch of community-launched merchandise for Curio Cards, Ethereum's first art show! People from far and wide have collected Cards from this historical collection, and now you can rep our clean merch from our shop, made by the very collectors of the Cards!

HNFTMUSEUM SARUTOBI 20/03 March with @hnftmuseum "The Legend of SaruTobi" - A tale of the first blockchain games and the humble birth of the metaverse...special guest Christian Moss / @MandelDuck

Historical NFT Museum Series 7 - with Mooncats About The HNFT Museum highlights the work of 25+ NFT communities from 2011 to 2019 and is a community based initiative curated by the CryptoSkulls DAO. It is our responsibility to not only tell our Skull story but to also create a platform that gives our friends in other historical NFT communities a voice. We provide education both virtually & IRL and we welcome new collectors to learn about the history of NFTs and their provenance in one single portal. Mooncats MoonCats are a collection of 25,440 generative pixel art cats created on August 9th, 2017 on the Ethereum blockchain by the development team, ponderware. The first MoonCat (MoonCat #0) was minted a day later on August 10th, 2017 by ponderware. Nearly four years later on March 13th, 2021, Justin Trimble, Allen Henna, ETHHoard, and a several other NFT community members shared on Twitter that they had discovered an ancient contract that was the "2nd NFT on Ethereum", with nearly 20,000 free mints still available out of the 25,600 contract max. Within hours all of the free mints had been claimed and over 5,000 individual wallets had participated. This moment is often referred to as the MoonCat Rescue and is attributed with giving birth to the "NFT Archaeology" movement. Since then MoonCats has grown to over 7,000 unique owners, has accumulated nearly 30,000 ETH of total volume, and has been featured at auction houses such as Sotheby's.

The MoonCatRescue project was "rediscovered" in March of 2021, and throughout the calendar year of 2021 the community grew and celebrated this wonderful project! This POAP is awarded to anyone who held a MoonCat NFT at the end of the 2021 calendar year.

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/

For attendees of the CurioCards x Graphrica space 🚀 Learn about the history of the first art nfts on ethereum and how a community came together to become one of the most recognised and respected decentralized communites in the ecosystem. Graphrica is a web3 development hub, advocates of the Graph Protocol and ambassadors for web3 in Africa and beyond! Come learn in our discord how to code in web3 as well as meet like minded people from all over the globe that share our Africa values! https://www.graphrica.org https://mobile.twitter.com/MyCurioCards/status/1534349503033057280

Curio Cards has been included in the Top Dog Studio Non-Fungible Vault at the Arctic World Archive, its artwork and provenance protected for 1,000+ years! 🏔️🧊✨🚀 On March 9th, 2022 at 12:46:28 UTC (Ethereum block #14352648), a snapshot of all Curio Cards provenance data was taken. This record and the NFT artwork was then included in the Non-Fungible Vault. If you held a Curio Card at any point up till the snapshot, you are eligible to claim this POAP at https://poap.delivery/curioarctic. This claim will expire on May 5th 2023. Check out the documentary for more information: https://youtu.be/sM0G9KDtfd4

Curio Cards is the First Art NFT project on Ethereum, launched on May 9th, 2017. This historical project helped shape the NFT ecosystem as it exists today, receiving mention in the first NFT token standard drafts. This POAP was given to attendees of the Curio Cards 5th Anniversary/Birthday Party held on May 9th, 2022 in Decentraland.