Qatar’s Chili Moon: A New Hummingbird NFT Club

Hummingbird mints a special Doha NFT club pack in honor of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

Opera Sneaker
Opera Sneaker
6 min readDec 13, 2022

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Brazil 90 from Hummingbird’s Doha NFT club

Qatar’s Chili Moon

Hummingbird minted a special Doha NFT club pack in honor of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. At the time of minting, the Doha pack included 32 NFTs valued at a total of 306.7 ETH (373,090.50 USD). Each NFT minted in the Doha pack has special traits that only apply to the Doha club pack.

Qatar placed restrictions on alcohol consumption during the World Cup. The World Cup is fueling discussions about the future role of non-alcoholic spirits in FIFA and sporting events. Qatar hosting the World Cup shows the importance of healthier sports culture. Healthier social habits around sports complement the holistic culture of the human body-dominant, competitive sports.

Hummingbird is an organic, small-batch botanical (non-alcoholic) distillery. The young distillery was founded in 2022 in Atlanta, Ga. As a young Web3 culinary organization Hummingbird is minting a limited collection of 735 NFT club memberships.

Hummingbird attentively plans to have its first tasting in April 2023. And begin barreling its first distilled spirits for aging this summer. In honor of the moon the closest celestial body that governs us through high and low tides. Hummingbird’s lunar NFT club only mints 1 of 1 distillery memberships in alignment with the moon’s celestial affairs.

Hummingbird’s set of 735 NFTs has different advantages and or real-world benefits such as DAO tokens, travel perks, aged barrel sovereignty, and Ethereum grant pools.

Hummingbird Doha set commemorates the Qatar World Cup 2022 in 1444 A.H. on the Muslim Calendar in the year of the Tiger during the last full moon of the Gregorian calendar. The World Cup offered us (the world) a uniquely reflective look at ourselves. The last full moon of the year occurred on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 11:08 pm EST. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, this moon is named “the Cold Moon.” The Cold Moon is the last Full Moon of the 2022 Gregorian calendar. The name “Cold Moon” signifies the seasonal change when the winter cold intensifies and the nights are the longest.

This week, the astral spectacles will continue as the Geminids Meteor shower peaks on Dec 13th and continues to the 17th. The Geminids celestial dance will happen around 10 or 11 pm EST. This annual meteor shower is named the Geminids because the meteors appear to radiate from Gemini’s constellation. During this celestial event, the Earth will travel tirelessly through the space debris from an asteroid called Phaethon which creates a shower of meteors. The moon signifies nature’s continuous nurturing and encourages us to reflect on our dependence on each other, mother nature, and mankind’s spiritual nature. The moon reminds us of mankind’s spiritual intuition and our shared DNA with nature. Personally, the moon signifies our infinite connection to the wombs that bore us.

The Warmest Winter Moon Ever

The coldest moon is occupying the sky during the fast-approaching winter solstice. Simultaneously, the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar has become a clear legendary event of the 21st century. Futbol is one of the most inexpensive sports to play. All you need is a makeshift ball. Futbol reflects the interconnected natural social science of sports, fusing tradition and minimalist design with modernity. In celebration of the World Cup, we have requested the minting of a rare, premium set of FIFA 2022 Hummingbird NFTs. The set of 32 Hummingbird FIFA gamefi NFTs, Club Doha will capture the intentional cultural exchange that has made Qatar Word Cup historical. Club Doha NFTs represent the youthful, cultural intensity that has emerged as a lighthouse of peace during the Games.

Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 Logo

FIFA 2022 has been historical for a long list of reasons. For many futbol fans the golden cup story is about team Morocco. The African team is no stranger to setting the bar.

  • 1970: First African team to earn a point
  • 1986: First African team to reach the knockouts
  • 2022: First African team to reach the semifinals
Morocco’s players make sajdah after beating Spain in Round 16. Sunday, November 27, 2022 [Twitter]

The team’s Moroccan mothers set the warm tone that love can make anything possible. African moms nurturing the center stage has been the leading sign that FIFA in Qatar is exceptionally amazing. In addition the world is constantly learning about the moral hazards of commercially captured global events like FIFA. Yet the human narrative that emerged from the FIFA in Qatar captures the empowering spirit of the sports humanity.

Morocco star Hakim Ziyech has never taken a single dollar while playing for his country (since 2015). He donates his entire salary to team staff and poor families in Morocco, his native country. In the same vein, mums and futbol lovers alike remain hopeful that the spirit of the Qatar games will encourage national sports to address the most assertive criticisms about human rights and more particularly the rights of migrant workers. Equality in worker rights is a class issue. It is a constant reminder of how we must remain committed to the pursuit of excellence in human rights. Despite the sea of criticism and political commercialization, FIFA Players and Fans have illuminated the FIFA Qatar World Games beyond the politics and rhetoric of any nation-state cultural warfare.

Achraf Hakimi celebrating with his mother after Morocco beats Spain in Round 16. Sunday, November 27, 2022 [Twitter]

Hummingbird FIFA NFT club sets memorialize FIFA in Qatar in the era of Bitcoin, NFTs, and decentralized open-source software. Each NFT will represent a 2022 FIFA qualifying team. Several FIFA Hummingbird NFTs are being allocated to honorary National futbol teams in the hopes of their future FIFA involvement. Hummingbird is a small-batch botanical distillery born in Atlanta, GA. Hummingbird has allocated this set of NFTs to be minted with the options of full Gamefi utility that in the future will encompass select travel and hospitality vouchers for FIFA 2026. Currently, Hummingbird is operating as a pre-DAO NFT membership club on the Ethereum blockchain. Hummingbird non-alcoholic distillery is inspired by the culture and hospitality of ancient and modern culinary arts. The Distillery is inspired by the role of culinary arts in the pursuit of peace and the cultivation of civilization.

Doha Club

Hummingbird, Hum for short, mints NFTs only by the lunar cycle. Every mint is aligned with the order of the Lunar calendar. Lunar calendars were used by indigenous tribes that did not record time with a 27–31 number binary system like the Gregorian calendar. Instead, tribes kept track of time by observing the seasons and the lunar phases. Previously, LUV an Opera Sneaker experimental, plant-based lifestyle NFT community, minted a club set of NFTs called Blood Moon 255 to mark “the Buck Moon” and “the Beaver Moon.” These moons are known as the Blood Moons because they are total lunar eclipses. Blood Moons only occur twice a year.

Hummingbird premium set of 32 NFTs highlights the spirit of the city-born distillery just a few miles from Martin Luther King Memorial. In honor of this mint, Hummingbird is pre-selecting 6 club LUV members to receive a Doha Club NFT. Receivers of the NFT will be artists based in Atlanta that have collected a LUV NFT and have been committed to Opera Sneaker’s mission to support arts and education. Members will be rewarded tickets to Atlanta’s High Museum and the museum’s last Jazz concert of the year. In addition, the Cold Moon club NFTs will hold a 2023 one-year season pass to the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2023.

ERC-721 — Token; Polygon — Blockchain; 85 NFMs — Amount asset minted; 735 NFTs— Total supple limit; 400 ETH ~ Total assets minted.

To join one of Opera Sneaker’s clubs sign-up for the Byte List or purchase an NFT on Rarible.

Star Gazers looking for the meteor shower: The best time to look for the Geminids on December 13th is after dusk and before moonrise, which will happen around 10:00 pm local time.

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Opera Sneaker
Opera Sneaker

Digital Collectible Design Studio (Collective) Stewards at LUV.eth & Hummingbird Leisure and Eco Travel Club