The first step to build the future

This week we congratulate the Banana Link team, talk about Profiles and Compass glitches, and look into upcoming future projects 🍌⚙️🧭

This week, the POAP dev team met to reflect on the sacred art of naming things properly, especially when you didn’t. Our ancestors have guided us well before. This time, they left us QR claims.

This week we discuss alternatives for tools and workflow automation.

This POAP commemorates participation in a live virality experiment on X (Twitter). On February 10, 2026, a small group of 20 testers joined a real-time quote-tweet chain to stress-test how POAPs can ride viral momentum. If you hold this, you were there at the start — one of the original 20 who helped prove the concept. This is a test drop for a forthcoming larger activation.

Test drop for the Living Portrait feature development. This POAP commemorates participation in testing the innovative Living Portrait technology, powered by ERC 8004. Created by POAP Studio as part of our ongoing experimentation with dynamic, evolving digital collectibles. This is a development milestone marker for our internal testing team.

I passed through El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia in 2026, and I got to mint this pretty POAP! BOG is named after the Spanish city of gold that Spanish explorers were obsessed with. This POAP was minted in 2026 as part of a campaign to offer precious digital collectibles to travellers around the world.

Cheers to 4 years at POAP! I've collected over a thousand POAPs, created ~200 drops, helped hundreds of people collect, create, and issue their own. I'm so grateful to be a part of this amazing team at POAP. I love my job.

This week we enjoyed the nuances of the App Store approval flow, while juggling priorities and discussing timestamps, a complex and controversial subject even in the age of AGI. Snip snap snip snap.