Hashkey Group, has announced a strategic partnership with EtherPOAP, a series of community events established by a group of passionate cohorts of the Ethereum environment and incubated by IPrinter DAO to honour the significant Merge event.
HashKey Group will help ease its events and community activities to revel the Ethereum Merge and its following protocol advancements, as a key partner. One of such events is a free mint programme of a Proof-of-Attendance Protocol (POAP) badge, an ERC-721 NFTs designed as tamper-proof digital tokens, which can become an everlasting share of a user’s decentralized identifier (DID). Upcoming EtherPOAP events are projected to feature concepts including NFT value, decentralized identities and DAO governance.
Honouring the birth and the merge of Ethereum
In 2014, Vitalik Buterin first introduced Ethereum to the world at the Bitcoin Conference in Miami, USA. During this time, the rapid growth of the Ethereum and its surrounding environment is tangible, as blockchain and digital assets aficionados in the space have jointly experienced and witnessed how the network and its community have evolved and technologically advanced over the years.
The story of Ethereum initiated with the unveiling of its genesis block, as a result of a 42-day Bitcoin crowdfunding event in July 2014. There was a total of 31,531 bitcoins raised during the crowdfunding round, which translates to USD 18.43 million, making it the second largest crowdfunding project of that period. The crowdfunding report received a total of 8947 transactions from 8893 exceptional reports. Laying the groundwork for what would become the world’s most extensively used blockchain smart contract platform, the participation of these 8893 reports started the Ethereum project.
Since its introduction, Ethereum has carried out key network and protocol upgrades such as, Byzantium (2017), Constantinople (2019), St. Petersburg (2019), Istanbul (2019) and utmost newly the Berlin (2021) and London (2021) hard fork upgrades. The Merge, which indicates Ethereum’s full transition from the Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake consensus instrument, is anticipated to be finalized in 13-15 September 2022.
This initiative would bring together the most artistic creators in the blockchain business.
About EtherPOAP
EtherPOAP is a series of community events created by the most zealous supporters and community members of the Ethereum network to issue a series of NFTs to honour the most historic Ethernet mergers. Devoted to honouring the Web3 premium network built on Ether, it was introduced by dozens of Web3 head establishments, produced, distributed and incubated by the IPrinter DAO.
About HashKey Group
HashKey Group is an all-inclusive digital asset financial services group headquartered in Hong Kong and with operations in Singapore and Tokyo. The Group provides a complete ecosystem across the entire digital asset landscape, ranging from venture investment, to technologies, to custody and trading. HashKey’s senior team has wide-ranging skill and expertise in governance, investment, and technology gained from tier-one banks, Fintech ventures and regulators. By bringing together the state-of-the-art blockchain technologies, research, development and, HashKey categorizes potential prospects and brings in end-to-end solutions that operate within regulatory frameworks with the maximum compliance standards.
