[HN Gopher] What Are POAPs and Why Are They Important? ___________________________________________________________________ What Are POAPs and Why Are They Important? Author : conanxin Score : 7 points Date : 2021-11-24 05:31 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.one37pm.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.one37pm.com) | thebean11 wrote: | I wish the actually interesting dApp projects got as much | traction on HN as the boring stuff does. | | A POAP could just be a signed message by the event organizer. It | barely uses the capabilities of general purpose turing- | complete(ish) blockchains. | gjsman-1000 wrote: | I have a POAP. It was for the Ethereum London upgrade. | | It was extremely difficult to claim (terrible UX), ran on a | side chain because it would cost $70 to process on chain, and | is currently worth $0.08. | | It's super, super boring. I have zero further interest in this | project. I guess you can admire my NFT. | cdurth wrote: | I'm curious. Why did you mention what it's currently worth? | | Pretty neat utility concept. I'm currently working with this | service to add interactivity with other NFTs. | | I did have a poor experience setting up test events, but I | think this is on their middle layer and hopefully can get | cleaned up. Also annoying that the token points back to their | API for full metadata. | | This "company" might not be the winner, but the idea of POAP | is promising both IRL & metaverse. | | I personally have more faith in utility NFT than "art". | cors-fls wrote: | OK those POAP are on a decentralised blockchain but it seems to | be a useless constraint to depend on a specific contract and | their creator for this use case. It's like doing centralization | on top of decentralization. | | Event organisers could provide attendance proof with their own | contract/address and you'd still have a proof of attendance as | long as the organization is verifiably linked to the | contract/transaction issuer. | | You then only need a database (easily shareable) of verified | event organizers to be able to verify anyone event attendance | history. | | All the fluff on top of the attendance verification mechanism | provided by this company doesn't depend on the blockchain at all. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-25 23:00 UTC)