In celebration of Rocket Pool's mainnet launch on the 6 October 2021, the Rocket Pool discord has partnered up with Balancer to do a giveaway for both communities. This POAP is your ticket to enter!

The current whale is holding the RPL/ETH ratio down due to 10k RPL sell walls at every 0.001 increment starting from 0.0061 all the way to 0.0095. When this wall is eventually breached down, this POAP will be claimable.

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.

On Saturday, September 4th at 10:00pm UTC a POAP.fun raffle will be held and livestreamed on the EthStaker YouTube channel. The 1st and 2nd place winners getting 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. If that wasn't enticing enough - immediately following the POAP.fun raffle, the POAP team will be auctioning off 4 exclusive 1-of-1 Stoner Cat-Inspired crossover NFTs via where the first ever POAP.art canvas was auctioned. Each Stoner Cat-Themed NFT was hand illustrated, with only 1 minted from each community: StonerPunk, Stoner Ape, Stoner Pengin, and Stoner Stoner Cat will be auctioned off during the EthStaker livestream and awarded to the highest bidder. POAP Art courtesy of Matt Houser: Twitter & Insta @mattkhouser

Congratulations to the entire POAP team for having issued their one millionth POAP! This is a huge milestone - to celebrate, here is a One Millionth POAP POAP.

Joe Clapis (rocket pool senior blockchain engineer) will be going step-by-step building a new Raspberry Pi machine from fresh out of the box to a fully functional validator using the Rocket Pool platform.

The EthStaker crew sits down with Saulius Grigaitis of the Grandine Beacon Chain Client. A new beacon chain and validator client implementation. Apparently, Grandine has been silently in development since 2019. It is written in Rust, and comes with some impressive claims. Currently, the Grandine Beacon Chain Client is closed-source. The EthStaker crew gets some insights as to what the long-term goals of the Grandine Beacon Chain Client and if it's recommended to use.