The London upgrade commemorating

NFT Distribution

Pooja Ranjan
Ethereum Cat Herders
3 min readSep 7, 2021

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The London upgrade is deployed on the Ethereum mainnet about a month ago; which introduces changes including fees market structure, gas refund, and pre-support to EVM future changes along with pushing the difficulty bomb to Dec 2021.

London upgrade NFT

Soon after the deployment of the upgrade on the mainnet, the Ethereum Cat Herders announced to commemorate Ethereum’s London upgrade with the distribution of up to 100 NFTs to EIP authors, EIP editors, clients, tooling team, and many others who contributed to bringing the London upgrade.

The London upgrade NFT contract deployed on Rarible by William Xuan, is designed by Tian Yuan Zhao for the Ethereum Cat Herders.

We‘re happy to announce that after spending a couple of weeks collecting wallet addresses from client teams, EIP authors, editors and multiple working groups, we’ve distributed 62/100 NFTs. Shoutout to William Schwab & William Xuan for making all the transactions to deliver the NFTs to the end recipients.

EIP authors & champion

  • Abdelhamid Bakhta
  • Alex Beregszaszi
  • Andrei Maiboroda
  • Eric Conner
  • James Hancock
  • Rick Dudley
  • Vitalik Buterin
  • Tim Beiko

EIP editors

  • Matt Garnett
  • Micah Zoltu

Researchers

  • Ansgar Deitrichs
  • Barnabe Monnot

Client teams

Besu

  • Gary Shulte
  • Karim (matkt)
  • Rai Sur
  • Sajida

Erigon

  • Alexey Akhunov (+12 NFT)
  • Artem Vorotnikov

Ethereum JS

  • Holger
  • Richard Moore
  • Ryan

Geth

  • Péter Szilágyi

Nethermind

  • Lukasz Rozmej
  • Marek Moraczyński
  • Mateusz Jędrzejewski
  • Tomasz Stanzack (7 NFTs)

OpenEthereum

  • Dusan Stanivukovic
  • Karim
  • Marcelo Ruiz de Olano
  • RoninKaizen (Client infra support)

Wallet

  • Dan Finlay (Metamask)

Support — working group

  • Anett Rolikova (Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians)
  • Trent (Ecosystem person)
  • Butta (Ethstaker)
  • Colfax (Ethstaker)
  • GreyWizard (Ethstaker)
  • Lamboshi aka Nolan (Ethstaker)
  • Patricio Walter (POAp)
  • Superphiz (Ethstaker)
  • Michael (Unvetica)

Ethereum Cat Herders

  • Avishek (meeting notes)
  • Darkfire (meeting notes)
  • David (meeting notes)
  • DockBoss (meeting notes)
  • Hudson Jameson
  • Pooja Ranjan
  • William Schwab
  • William Xuan

If you know a contributor of the London upgrade who is missing from the above list and is interested in receiving the London upgrade NFT, please reach out to Pooja Ranjan, or William Schwab, or William Xuan. on the Ethereum Cat Herders Discord.

Ethereum London Upgrade Community Call

About a month ago, to familiarize the community with the expected changes, we organized a community call inviting the development team and the Ethereum community. In the hour-long call, EIP authors summarized the proposals, infrastructure providers explained the UX/UI changes and we had some conversations around process improvement. The Ethereum London Upgrade Community Call recording is worth watching if you missed the meeting or part of the call. It also included POAP (designed by William Xuan) for people watching the stream.

To learn more about the London upgrade proposals, follow the recording of the overview shared by respective authors on PEEPanEIP or the summary in London Upgrade Overview.

Join the decentralized project management team by submitting the ECH onboarding form and at ECH Discord. Follow the Ethereum Cat Herders on Website, GitHub, Twitter, Medium, and YouTube.

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Pooja Ranjan
Ethereum Cat Herders

Herder-in-chief @EthCatHerders, Founder @ether_world, EIPsInsight.com. I share news and views about blockchain technology. Ethereum.