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Proof of a Person

My POAP time capsule, 2021 to 2026, built from an archive captured after the protocol wound down.

Status
Active Being built or operated.
Dates
Started Oct 17, 2026
Where
poap.thingelstad.xyz/
Topics
POAP Crypto Archives
Page views
0 in the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026 2025-10: 02025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 0
Latest evidence
Latest commit, Oct 17, 2026
The front page of poap.thingelstad.xyz on Oct 20, 2026
poap.thingelstad.xyz on Oct 20, 2026. The collector captures the front page once a month.

Proof of Attendance Protocol entered maintenance mode in March 2026 and wound down that summer. On 2026-10-17 I captured my whole POAP life into a public archive: every token I collected, every drop I created, the people who minted them, and the posts and Weekly Thing sections I wrote about POAP from 2021 on. The tokens themselves stay on the Gnosis chain; the archive keeps the records and artwork that lived on POAP’s own services.

Proof of a Person is the time capsule built from that archive and published the same day. It counts 259 tokens collected, from the ENS 4th Anniversary vote on 2021-06-07 to an airport rally stop at Seattle-Tacoma in July 2026, and 130 drops issued, which 639 people minted. Each year from 2021 to 2026 is a chapter headed by a line from my own posts. The pages show the timeline as two sides, what I collected and what I made for other people, with a network of the people who hold my drops, my writing about POAP, and a short history of the company.

The site is a static Astro build from a JSON export of the archive. Drop artwork is served from a copy taken from POAP’s asset host while it was still up.

Activity

35 commits, all with Claude, the first on Oct 17, 2026.

The latest weeks with activity

All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.

Sources and evidence

Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.

  • jthingelstad/poap.thingelstad.xyz implementation

    A time capsule and tribute to POAP through Jamie Thingelstad's collecting, issuing, and network

    • Repository created Oct 17, 2026 (a development record, not a launch date)
    • Astro, JavaScript, CSS
    • Latest commit Oct 17, 2026; 14 commits on main between Jul 20, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026
    • Observed Oct 18, 2026

  • jthingelstad/poap-archive archive

    Jamie Thingelstad's POAP time capsule: collecting, issuing, writing, and network, captured after the 2026 protocol sunset

    • Repository created Oct 17, 2026 (a development record, not a launch date)
    • HTML, Python, CSS
    • Latest commit Oct 17, 2026; 21 commits on main between Jul 20, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026
    • Observed Oct 18, 2026

  • poap.thingelstad.xyz/ website

    • Sitemap: 1,052 pages
    • 0 page views from Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026, counted by Tinylytics
    • Observed Oct 18, 2026

2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 35 Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.

Connections

Connections of Proof of a Persontells the story ofpreservesProof of a PersonPOAP2RSS612 POAP Challenge
Connections of Proof of a Persontells the story ofpreservesProof of a PersonPOAP2RSS612 POAP Challenge

  • Proof of a Person tells the story of POAP2RSS

    The capsule’s writing traces POAP2RSS back to my 2023 POAP Wishlist, where I asked POAP for RSS feeds. “RSS never came from POAP, so Jamie built it.” Source

  • Proof of a Person preserves 612 POAP Challenge

    The 612 POAP Challenge drops are one of the series on the capsule’s Issued page, and the archive keeps a mirror of the challenge site. Source

History

  1. launch Proof of a Person launches

    My POAP time capsule goes live. Source