GitPOAP Dec 2022 Update ⛄️

Happy December GitPOAPers!

Before you settle in for the end of the year, grab a mug of something warm and take a look at what we’ve done since we last updated you. Unless you’re south of the Equator, then go ahead and grab a cold ice tea.

TL;DR:

1. We launched a new product: Custom GitPOAPs (CGs) 🎉
2. If your project issues GitPOAPs and you want to change the design for 2023, contact us TODAY
3. Featured integrations! Earnifi will tell you when you have a new GitPOAP to claim, and Snapshot will let you make proposals that only a project’s GitPOAP holders can vote on

Custom GitPOAPs

The biggest and baddest update is that we released a new product: Custom GitPOAPs (CGs). Project maintainers can now issue GitPOAPs to more than just their software developers — this means that they can recognize their translators, their designers, their community managers, and everybody else who is every bit as valuable for a project as the folks writing the code.

A project maintainer wanting to recognize their contributors now has a choice between Custom GitPOAPs or Github-based GitPOAPs

When you go to gitpoap.io/create/select-type, you’ll see “Custom” or “Github-based” creation options

If they choose to create a Custom GitPOAP, they’re taken through an elegant creation flow where they can make users eligible with Github usernames, email addresses, or Ethereum addresses. The request then goes through our GitPOAP approval process.

For example, check out this CG that we issued to our design team, for anybody who’s done at least 30 designs for GitPOAP in 2022:

GitPOAP issues its own CG to its very talented design team!

Check out this one that Ledger issued to all the folks who helped to enable the Ledger Live Mobile 3.11 release!

Ledger has already started issuing its own CGs

Learn more about Custom GitPOAPs in our Medium post.

Or you can check out Community Call #4 where we discussed CGs and also talked with Zainan ‘Victor’ Zhou — an EIP editor who’s building ERCRef — you can learn more about the project and how to get involved in the latter half of the call

2023 GitPOAPs

We’ve started launching the 2023 versions of your GitPOAPs! These images are IMMUTABLE. If we launch your 2023 GitPOAP with the current design, we can’t change it! So if you’ve updated your branding or just want a new design, reach out TODAY. We’ve already begun launching some, so you may just catch yours in time.

Featured Integrations

Earnifi

earni.fi (who just announced that they’ve been acquired by Bankless!) has integrated with GitPOAP in a beta mode! Soon, all users will be able to enter their Ethereum address in Earnifi and know if they have GitPOAPs to claim immediately. You can even set email alerts to let you know!

Snapshot

Snapshot Labs introduced two new voting strategies that let you create proposals that only your GitPOAP holders can vote on. Does your community have funds and want to reward the developers? Send a few of them to a conference? Have them vote on it! The first strategy employs a weighted feature, where the GitPOAP weight will depend on the number of holders. The second strategy is a more straightforward 1:1 strategy. Head over to snapshot.org and choose your voting strategy in your settings to test it out

Just for funsies

GitPOAP participated as a community in ENS’s anniversary livestream event and we defended our logo in two different places on the poap.art canvas! Check out the final product.

Keep up with us!

GitPOAP Cofounder and CEO did a few interviews and community calls this month hosted in various places (Discord, Twitter, Youtube)
With @HelenaGagern: here
On the dev3 podcast: here

If you want to get the latest info and alpha on GitPOAP and hear what we’re doing, subscribe to our public calendar here. Hint: there’s always a POAP

Happy December from the GitPOAP team!