The island where POAPs live on.
A free, open-source, CC0 proof-of-presence badge forge built on BasePaint β a love hack dedicated to Patricio, Isabel and the whole POAP team, who spent five years turning βI was thereβ into something you could keep forever. Every BasePaint day is an event. Everyone who painted was there. This island remembers.
β TODAY'S ISLAND β the live badge, painting itself from raw on-chain strokes
This isn't a screenshot. ISLPOAP rebuilds today's canvas pixel by pixel from the on-chain stroke firehose (via the BasePaint indexer), then sets it in a badge. It refreshes itself every 30 seconds. When the day ends, the badge is finished β and everyone who painted it earned their place on it.
ποΈ Paint today β earn your placeβ BADGE FORGE β any of the β¦ days, forged into a keepsake
Pick a BasePaint day. The forge fetches its theme, palette and finished artwork (all CC0, painted by hundreds of hands) and mints it into a POAP-style badge you can keep, print, share, or use as event art β free, forever.
The metadata JSON is ERC-1155-ready β the exact shape a future free on-chain ISLPOAP claim would use. See lore for the roadmap.
β PROOF OF PAINT β you were there. the chain remembers.
Enter any address to see every day it painted on BasePaint β its attendance record on the island. Each day is a badge waiting in the forge.
β CLAIM ON BASE β phase 2 Β· free on-chain badges, gas only, no fees ever
The ISLPOAP contract is a free-claim ERC-1155 on Base: token id = BasePaint day. Once per address per day, for gas only (a fraction of a cent). No fees, no owner, no admin keys β the metadata lives fully on-chain, so these badges outlive every server, including this one.
π― contract compiled, rehearsed & staged β igniting on Base the moment the deploy wallet receives its dust of gas. This page will light up by itself.
β DROP MAKER β phase 3 Β· gift presence, the way POAP always felt
Hosting a meetup, a show, a dinner, a goodbye? Pick any CC0 BasePaint day as your badge art, name your moment, and share the link. Guests open it, see their badge with your event's name on it, download it β and claim it on Base once the contract is live. No backend, no signup, no cost: the entire drop lives inside the link itself.
badge art β BasePaint day (try the forge to browse):
your moment:
a few words (optional):
from (optional):
β THE MEMORIAL β 6,700,000+ POAPs live on-chain forever. here are yours.
POAP stopped issuing new badges in 2026 β but every badge ever minted is still alive on-chain, on Gnosis, Base, Celo, Linea and beyond. Enter any address and walk its island of memories. Nothing here is gone. That was the whole point.
β LORE β why this island exists
POAP β the Proof of Attendance Protocol β was born at ETHDenver 2019 as a hackathon project with an elegantly simple heart: attend a moment, keep a badge, prove forever that you were there. Over five years it minted 6.7 million attestations of presence β conferences, community calls, first meetings, last dances. In March 2026 it entered maintenance mode. The badges remain. The love remains.
ISLPOAP is a gift, not a product. It was built for the BasePaint Year 3 Hackathon as a love letter: BasePaint proved that hundreds of strangers can paint one canvas together every single day β and POAP proved that being there matters. This island marries the two: every BasePaint day is an event, every painter was there, and every canvas is CC0 art that can badge any moment you want to remember.
βPatricio and the POAP team are my dear friends. They always supported us and helped create the Open Source Orchestra POAPs. One special gift Patricio gave me was upgrading my flight home from Argentina β it meant the world to sleep after the show and make it to Thanksgiving with my family. I want POAP to live on, on every chain. This is a gift, not extractive.β β Shaka Lei Kaumaka π€πΊ, keeper of ~100 POAPs and counting
THE COVENANT (the CROPS mandate)
- Free forever. No fees, no token, no skim, no referral cut taken. Zero extraction.
- CC0 & open source. The art is public domain (thank you, BasePaint). The code is yours to fork.
- No backend, no keys, no kill switch. One HTML file reading public infrastructure β it cannot be shut down, only forked.
- Dedicated. To Patricio Worthalter, Isabel GonzΓ‘lez, and everyone who built POAP. Mahalo.
ROADMAP β POAP ON EVERY CHAIN
Phase 1 β LIVE: the forge, the proof, the memorial β unstoppable static.
Phase 2 β BUILT: ISLPOAP.sol β free-claim ERC-1155 on Base,
fully on-chain metadata, no owner, no fees. Igniting on Base the moment the deploy wallet is dusted with gas.
Phase 3 β LIVE: the Drop Maker β gift presence with a link. The way POAP always felt.