POAP Saver

POAP shut down in August 2026. Your badges are permanent tokens on Gnosis Chain, but their names, descriptions, and artwork live on POAP’s servers, and the pointer written into each token cannot be changed. When those servers go dark, that layer is gone.

This page saves it while they still answer. Enter an address or ENS name; your browser fetches every badge’s metadata and artwork directly, records a SHA-256 of each image, and gives you one zip: the archive plus a gallery page that works offline, forever. Nothing is uploaded, and no wallet connection is ever asked for — an address is all it needs.

The archive behind this page is already complete: every POAP event that existed at shutdown — 197,577 of them — was saved, verified byte-for-byte, and published to IPFS, with a public registry mapping each event to its content address so anyone can hold a copy. Saving your own is still worth doing: your zip is yours, on your disk, depending on nobody.

Also download a zip when it finishes

Runs entirely in your browser against public RPC endpoints and POAP’s own hosts. When POAP stops answering, the page tries the read-only community mirror, then the IPFS archive through public gateways, then a copy of the complete archive held in S3-compatible object storage. Nothing is ever uploaded anywhere. A bare event id looks up one event instead of a wallet; results can be linked with ?address= or ?event=. Results are shown here and nothing downloads unless you ask for the zip. Large collections take a few minutes and are held in memory. The same tool exists for the command line, and both are open source: github.com/mdws-org/poap-saver. The registry explains how to mirror the whole archive. The roots, in case only this page survives: bafybeickz3h6wnxdwsxeoixj3pxk24fnczqeymuqh7h7xge7iaownd4b3i (artwork), bafybeiglmxn6ta7bt76p5ed6mnmek4m4uvmftonxjqe6zemp6j73qzwwuu (metadata). The collection that started this is at /experiments/poap-vault/.

Mirror it

The archive sits in three places: S3-compatible object storage, and two IPFS nodes, one on a home connection and one in a datacenter. The metadata, 145 MB and the part that cannot be rebuilt, is in five - those three, a second storage provider's bucket, and a pin on a third party's IPFS cluster.

That survives a dead disk. It does not survive someone losing interest. Nearly every copy above is run by one person, and archives end when that person stops paying attention, not usually when hardware fails.

If you already run IPFS, one command changes it. Pin the metadata first: 145 MB, all 197,577 events, and the only copy of their names, dates and descriptions that does not depend on POAP's last server staying up. The registry records every hash, but a hash is not a name. The thumbnails are 4.4 GB and keep the archive browsable, not just intact. The artwork is 194 GB, so pin that when you have the disk.

ipfs pin add bafybeiglmxn6ta7bt76p5ed6mnmek4m4uvmftonxjqe6zemp6j73qzwwuu   # metadata, 145 MB
ipfs pin add bafybeia3q5zqbjdhzdmdny3vzoc6gddjn4tsi22p6jd2lsx3rcm362gin4   # thumbnails, 4.4 GB
ipfs pin add bafybeickz3h6wnxdwsxeoixj3pxk24fnczqeymuqh7h7xge7iaownd4b3i   # artwork, 194 GB

Nothing here asks for money. The archive runs on a machine at home, a server, a few dollars a month of object storage, and a domain. What it needs is other people holding copies, which costs nothing if your node is already running.

An independent archive. Not affiliated with POAP.