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POAPathon enables this mission via paid design contests, on-demand entertainment, weekly live event productions, and collaborative, friendly, creative spaces. Activities are centered around creative design, Web3, NFTs, Defi and POAPs. POAPathon allows requesters to tap into a variety of talented artists to interpret their desired design into a POAP, other type NFTs, social media banners, logos, stamps, video advertisements, etc\u2026 POAPathon is listed as an official designer of POAPs on POAP.xyz!\n\n# POAPathon Projects #\nPOAPathon would like to continue to establish itself as the primary outlet for Web3 products, artists, and creative designs. In order to accomplish this goal, we need to maintain our strong community with adequate funding. We can accomplish this by continuing our investments in the community while building new products, entertainment, and services that generate repeat revenue. Currently, POAPathon has demonstrated the ability to create income streams with projects such as:\n\n- POAPathon Design Services\n- POAPathon Events\n- POAPathon Live shows\n- POAPathon merchandise, such as T-Shirts and Pogs & Slammers\nWe are continually identifying new opportunities, which we will continue to build on in the future.\n\n# POAPathon Design Services #\nPOAPathon Design Contest Services was created to make it easy for anyone to request POAP designs, PFPs, NFTs, banners, mp4\u2019s, logos, and infographs through a contest style format. The service went live in mid-December 2021 and provides an income stream of competitive design bounty requests ranging from $150 to a recent mp4 request with a 1st place bounty of $3,000. We have received steady demand for the service and continue to support winning artists through bounty rewards. This system guarantees artist\u2019s engagement with unique and creative art designs for our requestors.\nRecent, notable and returning customers of the service have included BalancerDAO, Ethstaker, LanguageDAO, RocketPool, Nexus Mutual, ENSDAO, PeopleDAO and many more.\nPOAPathon Design Services can be likened to the web2 service provided by 99designs, which was acquired by VistaPrint in 2020. 99 designs had $60M+ in annual revenue at the time of acquisition.\nPOAPathon Design creates a strategic platform for design work that is better suited for contracting individual designers, as opposed to hiring an agency. Our intention is to continue encouraging artists who are active in the POAPathon community to engage with POAPathon, as well as Web3 design agencies for project-based work such as Bankless Design Guild and Amadeus Designs.\nThe bulk of our initial investment in POAPathon will go toward building out POAPathon Design Service as a Web3 application which provides a more streamlined experience for end users. This build out will include adding support for Polygon Web3 escrow and payment services, email notifications and credit card payment for design requests to expand our total addressable market. Additional growth opportunities include scaling existing productions while investing in new productions lead by the POAPathon community.\n\n# POAPathon Events #\nPOAPathon events have been core to building the POAPathon community. POAPathon has hosted several events that have driven a highly engaged audience, new events are continually being added.\n**POAPathon Inaugural Event (November 12\u2013December 3, 2021)**\n\n- 2,500+ participants \n- $75k/10+ sponsors (Volatility, SushiSwap, Beefy, Uma, Grid+ Qidao, Carbon Utility Token, Mythereum, Spaced Ventures, )\n- $35k+ in design bounties\n- Notable participants included Ghostbusters Afterlife, West Coast Customs, POAP, Jonathan Mann, SushiSwap, Superphiz, Balancer, Choff, and many more \n\n\n**POAPathon International Holiday Spectacular (December 22 2021, 24-hour event)**\n\n- 3,000+ participants from 30+ countries\n- $10k+ in design bounities\n- Notable participants included POAP, Ethstaker, Creative Platform, GitPOAP, LetsVeeFriends, and many more \n\n\n**ETHDenver POAPathon, POGS & POAPS (February 2022)**\n\n- 2,500+ packs distributed for free at ETHDenver\n- $30k+ in revenue\n- $10k+ in design bounties\n- Notable sponsors include Balancer, Qidao, LayerZero, Ethstaker, GitPOAP, Harvest, Gitcoin, Bankless Academy and more\n\n\n**International Women\u2019s Day Live Event (March 8, 2022)**\n\n- Lead by Jenetics, KellyWerder and NoFunToken\n- Participants including 40+ women from web 3 projects\n\n\n**St Patrick\u2019s Day Live Event (March 17, 2022)**\n\n- Hosted by Tap.eth and Produced by poapviking.eth\n- Guests were Jonathon Mann, PizzaDAO\n\n\n**POAPathon IRL at NFT.NYC (June 20-23, 2022)**\n\n- Partnered with iyk.eth to facilitate POAPathon\u2019s POAP scavenger hunt\n- POAPs that were distributed at NFT.NYC enabled exposure to an entire new audience\n\n\n**POAPathon Down Under (September, 2022, 9-hour event)**\n\n- Hosted by Pamela Kerr and ProfWerder\n- Alpha drops from a plethora of Australian builders and artists \n\n\n**POAPathon Anniversary Special (October, 2022, 3-hour event)**\n\n- Family and friends joined to discuss a year of POAPathon\n- Artist showcase \n\n\n**POAPathon: Spookathon (October, 2022, 2-hour event)**\n\n- Showcased spooky NFT projects from friends of POAPathon\n- Online costume contest\n\n\n**POAPathon LIVE at ETHDenver (March, 2023)**\n\n- Hosted several interviews including POAP.xyz, GitPOAP, EthStaker, Grid+ and Revv in Denver\n- POAPs that were distributed via NFC and Revv.gg\n\n# POAPathon LIVE #\nPOAPathon LIVE is a live entertainment show that is produced and hosted by the POAPathon community and features high energy POAP fun, side chats with NFT/Web3/POAP community notables, design competitions, and live entertainment/musical performances, at least one special POAP is always gifted during these live events. These weekly live shows follow a similar, though more condensed, format to the livestreams held during POAPathon events. We are monetizing the show by selling sponsorship packages similar to other media production services and will be adding to our current sponsorships.\nYou can view all of the live episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/poapathon\n\n# Who Benefits from POAPathon? #\n\n**Web3/DeFi projects gain visibility and onboard new users**\nPOAPathon uses Web3 technology for sponsors to distribute award bounties to participants. In requiring this, we frequently onboard new users into the Ethereum ecosystem. We have plans to accelerate Web3 and Polygon usage by onboarding POAPathon participants onto the Polygon network. \n\n**Artists Gain a Creative Outlet and Visibility**\nArtists have a place to connect and create. Artists are able to connect with other artists while sharing their experiences, ability to create while live streaming, learning new techniques and supporting each other through competitive design contests.\n\n**Participants Gain Access to Opportunity**\nPOAPathon provides opportunities for all artists to win contest-based design services. The real opportunity for artists lies beyond POAPathon as top artists and designers quickly gain visibility of top POAPathon requesters and sponsors resulting in access to paid design work that far exceeds the monetary value of winning POAPathon\u2019s contests. This is true Web3 transparency and community!\n\n**Sponsors Gain Access to Talent**\nDeFi and Web3 sponsors gain access to new audiences and customers by participating and sponsoring POAPathon. This includes gaining access to top design talent as well as POAPathon\u2019s amazing community members and followers.\n\nJoin in on the fun on our Discord: https://discord.gg/KeFy8jVjm2", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "poapathon", "projectTwitter": "beastadon"}
POAPathon
POAPathon’s mission is to inspire the world to connect, create, and educate. POAPathon enables this mission via paid design contests, on-demand entertainment, weekly live event productions, and collaborative, friendly, creative spaces. Activities are centered around creative design, Web3, NFTs, Defi and POAPs. POAPathon allows requesters to tap into a variety of talented artists to interpret their desired design into a POAP, other type NFTs, social media banners, logos, stamps, video advertisements, etc… POAPathon is listed as an official designer of POAPs on POAP.xyz!

# POAPathon Projects #
POAPathon would like to continue to establish itself as the primary outlet for Web3 products, artists, and creative designs. In order to accomplish this goal, we need to maintain our strong community with adequate funding. We can accomplish this by continuing our investments in the community while building new products, entertainment, and services that generate repeat revenue. Currently, POAPathon has demonstrated the ability to create income streams with projects such as:

- POAPathon Design Services
- POAPathon Events
- POAPathon Live shows
- POAPathon merchandise, such as T-Shirts and Pogs & Slammers
We are continually identifying new opportunities, which we will continue to build on in the future.

# POAPathon Design Services #
POAPathon Design Contest Services was created to make it easy for anyone to request POAP designs, PFPs, NFTs, banners, mp4’s, logos, and infographs through a contest style format. The service went live in mid-December 2021 and provides an income stream of competitive design bounty requests ranging from $150 to a recent mp4 request with a 1st place bounty of $3,000. We have received steady demand for the service and continue to support winning artists through bounty rewards. This system guarantees artist’s engagement with unique and creative art designs for our requestors.
Recent, notable and returning customers of the service have included BalancerDAO, Ethstaker, LanguageDAO, RocketPool, Nexus Mutual, ENSDAO, PeopleDAO and many more.
POAPathon Design Services can be likened to the web2 service provided by 99designs, which was acquired by VistaPrint in 2020. 99 designs had $60M+ in annual revenue at the time of acquisition.
POAPathon Design creates a strategic platform for design work that is better suited for contracting individual designers, as opposed to hiring an agency. Our intention is to continue encouraging artists who are active in the POAPathon community to engage with POAPathon, as well as Web3 design agencies for project-based work such as Bankless Design Guild and Amadeus Designs.
The bulk of our initial investment in POAPathon will go toward building out POAPathon Design Service as a Web3 application which provides a more streamlined experience for end users. This build out will include adding support for Polygon Web3 escrow and payment services, email notifications and credit card payment for design requests to expand our total addressable market. Additional growth opportunities include scaling existing productions while investing in new productions lead by the POAPathon community.

# POAPathon Events #
POAPathon events have been core to building the POAPathon community. POAPathon has hosted several events that have driven a highly engaged audience, new events are continually being added.
**POAPathon Inaugural Event (November 12–December 3, 2021)**

- 2,500+ participants 
- $75k/10+ sponsors (Volatility, SushiSwap, Beefy, Uma, Grid+ Qidao, Carbon Utility Token, Mythereum, Spaced Ventures, )
- $35k+ in design bounties
- Notable participants included Ghostbusters Afterlife, West Coast Customs, POAP, Jonathan Mann, SushiSwap, Superphiz, Balancer, Choff, and many more 


**POAPathon International Holiday Spectacular (December 22 2021, 24-hour event)**

- 3,000+ participants from 30+ countries
- $10k+ in design bounities
- Notable participants included POAP, Ethstaker, Creative Platform, GitPOAP, LetsVeeFriends, and many more 


**ETHDenver POAPathon, POGS & POAPS (February 2022)**

- 2,500+ packs distributed for free at ETHDenver
- $30k+ in revenue
- $10k+ in design bounties
- Notable sponsors include Balancer, Qidao, LayerZero, Ethstaker, GitPOAP, Harvest, Gitcoin, Bankless Academy and more


**International Women’s Day Live Event (March 8, 2022)**

- Lead by Jenetics, KellyWerder and NoFunToken
- Participants including 40+ women from web 3 projects


**St Patrick’s Day Live Event (March 17, 2022)**

- Hosted by Tap.eth and Produced by poapviking.eth
- Guests were Jonathon Mann, PizzaDAO


**POAPathon IRL at NFT.NYC (June 20-23, 2022)**

- Partnered with iyk.eth to facilitate POAPathon’s POAP scavenger hunt
- POAPs that were distributed at NFT.NYC enabled exposure to an entire new audience


**POAPathon Down Under (September, 2022, 9-hour event)**

- Hosted by Pamela Kerr and ProfWerder
- Alpha drops from a plethora of Australian builders and artists 


**POAPathon Anniversary Special (October, 2022, 3-hour event)**

- Family and friends joined to discuss a year of POAPathon
- Artist showcase 


**POAPathon: Spookathon (October, 2022, 2-hour event)**

- Showcased spooky NFT projects from friends of POAPathon
- Online costume contest


**POAPathon LIVE at ETHDenver (March, 2023)**

- Hosted several interviews including POAP.xyz, GitPOAP, EthStaker, Grid+ and Revv in Denver
- POAPs that were distributed via NFC and Revv.gg

# POAPathon LIVE #
POAPathon LIVE is a live entertainment show that is produced and hosted by the POAPathon community and features high energy POAP fun, side chats with NFT/Web3/POAP community notables, design competitions, and live entertainment/musical performances, at least one special POAP is always gifted during these live events. These weekly live shows follow a similar, though more condensed, format to the livestreams held during POAPathon events. We are monetizing the show by selling sponsorship packages similar to other media production services and will be adding to our current sponsorships.
You can view all of the live episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/poapathon

# Who Benefits from POAPathon? #

**Web3/DeFi projects gain visibility and onboard new users**
POAPathon uses Web3 technology for sponsors to distribute award bounties to participants. In requiring this, we frequently onboard new users into the Ethereum ecosystem. We have plans to accelerate Web3 and Polygon usage by onboarding POAPathon participants onto the Polygon network. 

**Artists Gain a Creative Outlet and Visibility**
Artists have a place to connect and create. Artists are able to connect with other artists while sharing their experiences, ability to create while live streaming, learning new techniques and supporting each other through competitive design contests.

**Participants Gain Access to Opportunity**
POAPathon provides opportunities for all artists to win contest-based design services. The real opportunity for artists lies beyond POAPathon as top artists and designers quickly gain visibility of top POAPathon requesters and sponsors resulting in access to paid design work that far exceeds the monetary value of winning POAPathon’s contests. This is true Web3 transparency and community!

**Sponsors Gain Access to Talent**
DeFi and Web3 sponsors gain access to new audiences and customers by participating and sponsoring POAPathon. This includes gaining access to top design talent as well as POAPathon’s amazing community members and followers.

Join in on the fun on our Discord: https://discord.gg/KeFy8jVjm2
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