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- The ConstitutionDAO POAP… we didn’t get there, but I will always remember the event with the POAP. This is the only POAP I have migrated to Ethereum just to have it front and center.
- The POAPathon USA Holiday Spectacular I nabbed during the POAPathon this year… that got me exposed to POAPathon, more on that below…
- My Weekly Thing #200 POAP that I created when I sent the 200th issue of my Weekly Thing newsletter. Each recipient of the newsletter got a claim code.
- And perhaps my most favorite of all, my 50th Birthday POAP. On Jan 3 2022 I turned 50 and I wanted to give something to friends and family. I created a POAPathon Challenge for a design and had over a dozen design submissions! It was an amazing process and yielded what is currently my most treasured POAP! ❤️
- Nifty.Ink runs on the Gnosis blockchain. You will need to connect to it via MetaMask and you will need xDai on Gnosis to purcahse.
- I’m gifting this image to some family members and others. For those, I will cover the full $20 donation.
- I will send the funds to Ukraine via a different blockchain, likely Solana. I will post the transaction here as proof when completed.
- Ukrainian Red Cross: All funds will be used to help those in need, affected by armed conflict, blood collection, mobilization of volunteers and resources, and emergency activities.
- $1K Project: Sponsor a Ukrainian family in need.
- Samaritan’s Purse: Samaritan’s Purse has deployed an Emergency Field Hospital to Ukraine.
- International Rescue Committee: Over 3.5 million refugees have been forced to flee Ukraine. Help the IRC send vital supplies to displaced children and families.
- ProRizne Society: We support groups that will not be funded by the large agencies, informal groups without access to funding, and emerging groups that could transform into proper NGOs.
- Convoy of Hope: Whether it’s after a disaster, feeding a hungry child, or helping a parent put food on the table, Convoy of Hope is proud to deliver your kindness to those who need it most.
- Nova Ukraine: Dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine and raising awareness about Ukraine in the United States as well as in the rest of the world.
- Humanitarian Aid Account of the National Bank of Ukraine: Meant for charity contributions from Ukraine and from abroad. The Ministry of Social Policy will channel the raised funds to support Ukraine’s citizens severely affected by the war.
- Voices of Children: Providing non-stop assistance to affected children and families from all over the country, providing emergency psychological assistance, and assisting in the evacuation process.
- USA for UNHCR: UNHCR is on the ground scaling its response to provide assistance and ensure those displaced find safety in welcoming arms in this moment of crisis.
- Razom for Ukraine: Razom creates spaces where people meet, partner and work together to unlock the potential of Ukraine.
- United Help Ukraine: Help us provide medical aid and humanitarian relief to brave Ukrainians defending themselves! Stand with the people of Ukraine!
- Care.org Ukraine Crisis Fund: Give now to send lifesaving food, water, and hygiene kits to the most vulnerable in Ukraine.
- Direct Relief: Direct Relief is working with Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and other groups in the region to provide requested medical aid—from oxygen concentrators to critical care medicines—while preparing to offer longer-term aid to people displaced or affected by the war.
- World Central Kitchen: Providing meals to Ukrainian families in need.
- UNICEF: Help UNICEF deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of children in eastern Ukraine impacted by violence — and to hundreds of thousands more as UNICEF races to meet increasingly urgent needs across the country.
- Media Lifeline Ukraine: Coalition to keep the flow of reliable information alive in and around Ukraine. We work hard to support journalists working in extreme circumstances to bring reliable information.
- Kyiv Independent: Support independent journalism in Ukraine. Choose one-time or ongoing support.
- Lifeline Ukraine: Suicide prevention support line.
- Doctors Without Borders: We have teams in Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, and Belarus. We are an independent and impartial organization committed to providing medical humanitarian assistance to people affected by the war no matter who they are or where they are.
- Donate Crypto to Ukraine: Support people in their fight for freedom.
- Aid for Ukraine: Aid for Ukraine is a collaboration between the Government of Ukraine, Everstake (a Ukraine-based web3 company), and friends from the crypto community around the world.
Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 17 to Buy Noun #102. txn.
Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 13 for Retroactive Funding and Lil Grants Pool. txn.
Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 10 to Buy Noun #253 from Nouns DAO. txn.
My Introduction to the POAP Community
I shared this introduction on the POAP Discourse server on January 8. I’m publishing here on my blog as well for posterity. I’m still a big fan of POAPs. It is my favorite project to introduce people to crypto with.
gm all! 👋
I first discovered POAP’s with the ENS 4th Anniversary Snapshot Vote on 04-June-2021 and I was instantly intrigued. I have always had fun collecting things and particularly find it interesting having digital tokens that capture things. Photos stop time. Geo coordinates stop motion. POAPs are a time capsule of something of note.
I created my first POAP to give to the members of my book club when we read Klara and the Sun. Mindblown! I think it was shortly after that that I joined the POAP Discord. I’m also a proud holder of the Early Issuer POAP. I’ve since created 12 POAP events for a variety of uses.
Special POAPs, that have a place in my heart.
I’ve become quite a fan of the project. I think it is a great way to curate memories. I also love it as a way to introduce people to crypto as a totally non-economic activity.
I didn’t realize how bad farming was until we issued our Reading Things First 100 POAP. We have a family newsletter called Reading Things that is all about, well, reading. My whole family writes in it and we send quarterly. We sent this POAP because we hit 100 subscribers. I didn’t know at the time how to do a unique claim code to each subscriber (like I did for the Weekly Thing 200 one)… so I just put a POAP.website link in… it was farmed terribly. I honestly wish I could “burn” that whole event and destroy all those tokens because they are trash… the farmers destroyed what should have been a cool memory for us to celebrate with these 100 first subscribers…
This got a bit longer than I was expecting… It is fun to continue to see the growth of the POAP ecosystem! You can see my collection of POAPs as well…
Joined Lil Nouns DAO
I won the auction for Lil Noun 1416 and am now a member of Lil Nouns DAO, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Lil Nouns is a connected project to Nouns DAO. Nouns DAO auctions a new “Noun” once a day, forever. Lil Nouns, launched on May 9, 2022, does the same, but every 15-minutes, and it is a “Lil Noun”. Both projects primarily use the Nouns to create a treasury that is then managed by the DAO, and funds proposals to extend the “Noun Ecosystem”, in whichever way the DAO members vote. Noun DAO has a tresury of over 24,000 ETH, or approximately $48 million. Lil Nouns treasury is nearing 1,000 ETH, or nearing $2 million.
The two projects are connected by Lil Nouns DAO sending Nouns DAO a Lil Noun every tenth mint, effectively giving the collective of Nouns DAO an 8% voting stake in Lil Nouns DAO, and Lil Nouns holding in its treasury a couple of Nouns. They also run on effectively the same code with slight modification for timing and the Noun images.
Many NFT projects the NFT is the thing that people really want, and there may be an organization behind it. Nouns and Lil Nouns is a DAO, and the way you gain access is by holding the NFT. The funds from the NFT go to the DAO to manage, not an organization building the NFT. There are already 13 [proposals] the DAO is considering, mostly early formation stuff.
I continue to think DAO’s are very interesting, and frame them broadly as a way to organize collective action. I wanted to be part of Lil Nouns because it looks like a great example of doing just that.
Magic Pines Summer of 2022 POAP
I’m doing what I consider another fun Proof of Attendance Protocol, or POAP, token! We greatly enjoy our summers at the lake and we have a lot of people join us there. We call our lake place Magic Pines. I love finding ways to commemorate these fun times and I thought it would be fun to give people a POAP token each summer! From that, the Magic Pines Summer of 2022 token was born!
This token celebrates the Summer of 2022 at Magic Pines, the Thingelstad’s lake house. The token can only be claimed in-person by visiting Magic Pines between Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, May 28 and Labor Day on Monday, September 5th. The token image was created via a Poapathan competition by kavishsethi#2327. A larger version of the image is on IPFS at CID QmZXjAZvNSP8z4N4f1HzfJFhDvG1TdVLZLsHHqJp96kgLZ.
I love the custom artwork via Poapathon. I’m going to print out “claim sheets” that have instructions for people that have never done this before, which is most everyone. I think it could be cool to issue a new one of these every year with new artwork for that year.
I realized when doing this that Magic Pines itself should have one, so magicpines.eth is all setup now! Maybe it will become a DAO for the family at some point. 😊
Gift for Weekly Thing POAP Holders
I saw this HELLO “Ink” on Nifty.Ink and I just thought it was a fun image. The author had minted 100 of them for only 0.10 DAI ($0.10 USD) each and an idea sprung into my mind.
I should send one of these to everyone that has minted a Weekly Thing POAP token! 🎁
I went to the Weekly Thing #200 and Weekly Thing Five Year Anniversary event pages and downloaded the CSV of the addresses that have it. Deduplicated the list and then proceeded to buy and send a copy of HELLO to every address.
If you hold a Weekly Thing POAP, you will now find that you have HELLO in your wallet on Gnosis chain. 🎉
I’ve been exploring various “noun” crypto projects recently. When I found The Internoun Project I decided to grab the Wikipedia noun for my collection. I’m a big fan and supporter of Wikipedia.
I just sent issue 219 of the Weekly Thing, which also marks the Five Year anniversary! It is also my first issue back after an unscheduled break. It was fun to get things going again. Subscribers got a PAOP token to mark the occasion.
I got my invite code to the Coinbase NFT beta today. I setup my profile and it all worked really easy. The social aspects of commenting on NFT’s and following users is interesting. You should be able to follow Collections too.
Support Ukraine via Nifty.Ink 🇺🇦
I have wanted to create my own “ink” on Nifty.Ink and my artistic capabilities are pretty limited. My one talent is block lettering. I also want to keep doing things to support Ukraine, so let’s raise $1,000 to donate directly to Ukraine via crypto.
I’ve minted 50 copies of Support Ukraine hand drawn by me, thingelstad.eth! You can even watch it being drawn by hitting the play button!
Each copy is $10, and I will match that and contribute $20 to Ukraine. If we sell all 50 of these, we’ll raise $1,000!
You get a cool NFT to keep, and we can do a little bit more to support Ukraine in their fight to keep their freedom! 🇺🇦
Notes
ring rang rung by Cats Will Eat You
I recently discovered the work of Cats Will Eat You, a Minnesota artist who has created and published a new, original piece of art every day for the last 15 years. To do anything for 15 years is incredible, but to push your creativity in this way is truly remarkable and impressive. I knew right away I wanted to own a piece in this wide ranging collection and Cats Will Eat You has been minting some of his art as an NFT. I’m now the proud owner of “ring rang rung”.
I liked the art as well as the communication metaphors embedded in it. You can also use Artivive and see the creation process. The artist also let me know that “ring rang rung” was featured in the 2022 SXSW NFT Gallery.
Support Ukraine
There are many organizations doing good work in Ukraine. I am going to maintain this list and update it as I find anything new.
The people of Ukraine need the worlds help as they struggle through the invasion of their country. Please consider helping with a financial donation to these causes. 🇺🇦
Update (2023):
United24: This is the official fundraising platform for Ukraine and is a direct initiative from the President of Ukraine. This is probably the most robust and direct way to give donations of any size. There is a US non-profit that you can route the funds via, and you can select from one of five different areas to support.
Donate
Verticals
Crypto
Thank you! 🙏
Phantom Wallet for iOS
Love that Phantom Wallet is now available on iOS. Has integrated browser, support for staking accounts — just like the Chrome plugin. Can now use Solana services on the go!
Totally agree with Paul Graham’s take on NFTs.
NFTs can be used for so many different things that you're inviting history to make a fool of you if you dismiss them. Even if I were sure that most current uses of NFTs were bogus, I'd never dare to say that all possible uses were.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) February 6, 2022
As I’ve said, they represent a truly new thing.
Neeva Premium with NFT
Neeva recently rolled out their premium search offering. I’ve been using it as a tester for months and it was a “no brainer” to me to sign up for a year. In addition to the features I would have expected, they also offered an NFT to early Premium subscribers. What a great idea! This gives me an NFT as a keepsake to highlight my early support for private search.
Today I received my New Beginning with Neeva NFT, and it is super fun. OpenSea says there are 101 owners so far. OpenSea chose to mint the NFT on Polygon.
Thanks Neeva!
I signed up for a year of Neeva Premium. I’ve been using Neeva for several months and have valued the ad free experience. I’m very curious to see how they continue to evolve. If you haven’t tried Neeva it is worth a go. Plus, they are giving an exclusive NFT and Membership Card to Premium subscribers — how fun!
My first ever proposal for a DAO was voted on and approved! elfDAO will be including Toys for Tots in their distribution this year. Now to add three more organizations.
Adding Solana (SOL) and Polygon (MATIC) tokens during this crypto market downturn. I’m very impressed with Solana and the solutions people are building on it. Polygon is doing very well as L2 for Ethereum.
