[HN Gopher] What Are POAPs and Why Are They Important?
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       What Are POAPs and Why Are They Important?
        
       Author : conanxin
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-11-24 05:31 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
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