April 2022: GitPOAP launched! — GitPOAP’s aim in launching was to create an incentive structure that was easily configurable for projects, especially open-source, to reward the people who spend their valuable time to helping to build.

• Day 1: 189 mints from just 17 repos, 152 new profiles created

• July: 874 mints, 448 repos now supported

• 2022: 2590 mints, 1029 repos supported

We spent the summer focusing on supporting any repo who was open source and seeking to reward existing contributors and attract new ones. But our engineers were also working diligently on making GitPOAP an increasingly useful tool for project maintainers.

In 2022, we implemented a number of features:

• Custom GitPOAPs to give maintainers flexibility in recognizing non-coding contributors

• Github bot

  • Ability to award contributors on-demand without a merged pull request

  • Notification bot comment for new eligibility

• Public API

• Self service flow for creating a GitPOAP

• Github status badges for GitPOAP eligibility

• Hackathon support

• GitPOAP leaderboard

• Search functionality for organizations & projects

And integrations:

• Gitcoin Passport uses GitPOAP as a high quality indicator for sybil resistance

• Guild.xyz uses GitPOAPs to gate Discord servers, Telegram, & more

• nftychat.xyz GitPOAP-gated rooms

• POAP.gallery GitPOAP integration

• Snapshot POAP-gated voting

• earni.fi notifications for unclaimed GitPOAP goes into beta mode

And we also hosted a community call series:

• #1: Paul Wackerow of ethereum.org

• #2: Ryan Berckmans of 3cities

• #3: Alex Stokes of the Ethereum Foundation

• #4: Zainan Victor Zhou, EIP editor and building ERCref

• #5: Manfred Touron of Berty Technologies

Dedicated members of our team attended and built connections at Devconnect, EthDenver, EthCC, EthBerlin, DAppCon, Devcon, Github Universe & the MIT Bitcoin Expo Hackathon

We’d call it a fruitful year and we’re super grateful to have you with us. We’ve got a ton on our roadmap this year, so we’ll talk to you at the next update!

🖖, The GitPOAP Team