tea's mission is to create a more resilient and sustainable open-source software ecosystem. By leveraging the tea Protocol, developers are empowered to bridge their Web2 open-source projects to web3 and unlock the open-source economy. This allows developers to capture the value they create and receive fair incentives for their contributions. - Any open-source developer can onboard using their GitHub handle, find their project, and begin earning rewards. tea’s novel consensus mechanism: “Proof of Contribution” quantifies the impact of all Web2 open-source projects, The more valuable your codebase, the more you earn. - Network participants are incentivized to report bugs or vulnerability reports responsibly, and project maintainers are incentivized to address these reports on time. This promotes more transparent linkages between project dependencies and dependents, which may encourage cross-collaboration amongst core contributors due to their mutually aligned goals.

This POAP proves you have attended ETHDenver 2024. ETHDenver is a Community-Owned Innovation Festival. With the genesis of SporkDAO in June of 2021, ETHDenver became the first event DAO in the world. All event proceeds are used to #BUIDL value for our community and to realize the decentralized future. ‍ https://www.ethdenver.com/

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.

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/