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.

On August 22, 2021, Adam McBride, an "NFT Archaeologist" as he's best described, reached out to Ken Erwin, PixelMap founder, asking if he had created PixelMap. That was the beginning of the "rediscovery", leading to a massive amount of attention in a few hours, no sleep for 50+ hours, an ERC-721 wrapper to make PixelMap easier to use, and a revival of the website. The "Genesis Collection" is for the first owners of PixelMap tiles and brave apes who have participated in the PixelMap Rediscovery.

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/

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