On Saturday, September 4th at 10:00pm UTC a POAP.fun was held and livestreamed on the EthStaker YouTube channel, with the 1st and 2nd place winners receiving a Stoner Cat NFT and Rare POAP Swag, respectively. With 21 eligible POAPs from across the Ethereum ecosystem like EthStaker, Stoner Cats, Pudgy Pengins, Bored and Ape Yacht Club communities – there is plenty of opportunity to enter for your chance to win the grand prizes. Those of you who placed bids on the Foundation.app auction (https://foundation.app/@POAPart) are all eligible for claiming this POAP.

The VeeFam DAO GG Coin POAP is for all the Gratitude Gorillas that helped put together a successful bid and form this amazing community. A limit amount will be available. The art for this POAP did an amazing job. Created by road2veecon

This POAP pays homage to Arbitrum's Ethereum Mainnet release and many of the first mover protocols that tested and believed in the rollup's launch! Created by: Triforcedao

The Beacon Chain First 32,769 POAP is awarded to each unique address that was in the first 32,769 block proposals on the Ethereum 2 Beacon Chain that launched December 1, 2020. This POAP badge was designed by borisblock as part of a design contest held on the POAP discord channel.

One of the main goals of the EthStaker community is to lower the technical barrier of entry into the world of solo staking on the Ethereum network. One of the ways we do this is by hosting workshop events to provide step-by-step instructions on how to get your validator up and running. The EthStaker crew has teamed up with [Rocket Pool](https://www.rocketpool.net/) who have agreed to co-host a livestream workshop wherein Joe Clapis (rocket pool senior blockchain engineer) will literally by going step-by-step building a new Raspberry Pi machine from the box to a fully functional validator using the Rocket Pool platform.

On Friday, August 27th 2021 a chain split occurred on Ethereum mainnet. This is an issue affecting Geth on the Execution Layer (ETH1). Version 1.10.8 has been released to resolve the issue. If you are running Geth as your Execution Layer client, please update to the version 1.10.8. If you are using Infura or like-service there is no action necessary.

The highly anticipated block 12,965,000 has finally processed and ushered in EIP-1559. This POAP celebrates all of the hard work and dedication by the Ethereum Foundation and everyone involved to bring such a monumental upgrade to fruition.