A new beer project

Today I like to announce a new NFT project around the topic of beer at https://www.gifme.beer/. This is managed by a team from the lovely city of Barcelona around the #Hive user @santigs who I met during my last visit to Barcelone and where I try to assist whit my beer knowledge.

The project is working on the Optimism Blockchain and afaik they already have 6+ breweries signed with cool activities

Hey Hive Family
and let us travel the world again
to enjoy good beer and NFTs

From the press release of Gifme.beer

GifmeBeer is a pioneering platform that connects beer lovers with their favorite brews through innovative digital experiences. By leveraging blockchain technology, GifmeBeer aims to enhance the beer-drinking journey and foster a global community of passionate enthusiasts.

They launch was the 2024 Barcelona Beer Festival in March

See more at https://barcelonabeerfestival.com/

The BBF and Gifme.beer

^{A pic Mike Rius from a BBF 2023 report at beersandtrips.com}

"With the launch of the Barcelona Beer Festival Lifetime NFT in partnership with GifmeBeer, we're redefining what it means to be a part of the craft beer community," said Mike Rius, Director of Barcelona Beer Festival. "This NFT represents not just access to a festival, but a lifelong commitment to the exploration and celebration of craft beer."

taken from the Gifme.beer press release.

What is Gifme.Beer

It is a Craft Beer digital collection of cards in NFT format using blockchain technology

Sounds simple and if you add this simplicity to the craft beer community you will see results. See more at https://www.gifme.beer/

At BBF

"Get the "VIP Lifetime Pass for Barcelona Beer Festival"

The Lifetime Pass collection is available on Optimism Mainnet and 150 of a total of 160 NFTs will be offered for public minting. The first 50 passes can be minted for 500 USDC on early bird until March 21st 11:59pm CET when the Barcelona Beer Festival will launch. After that date price will increase to 650 USDC. Max, two mints per address.

People at the Gifme.beer booth

See the team and visitors in action.

^{Source post from santigs on Hive}

Barcelona Beer Festival

The Gifme.beer booth

Again, I "borrowed" this picture from @santigs from his post

^{Source post from santigs on Hive}

Logo of the event

What is Optimism?

Optimism is a Collective of companies, communities, and citizens working together to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for Ethereum.

They say "Build together, Benefit together"

The Superchain is a vision of a composable, unified network of blockchains that can support internet-level activity, powered by the MIT-licensed open source OP Stack.

From https://www.optimism.io/ where you learn more about this Blockchain or Network

Optimism is an extension to Ethereum which enables users and developers to benefit from the latter’s strong security guarantees while being cheaper and faster. The OP token is used for governance and can be bought or sold on Coinbase and other exchanges.

Optimism is a fast, stable, and scalable L2 solution built by Ethereum developers, for Ethereum developers. Optimism’s EVM-equivalent architecture scales your Ethereum apps without surprises. Committed to building a sustainable ecosystem through retroactive public goods funding, Optimism is scaling Ethereum’s present to provide funding for its future.

Optimism allows you to do many of the same things as the Ethereum network, but for ~10x cheaper. Just like Ethereum, users of Optimism can interact with DeFi (decentralized finance) applications, as well as buy, sell, collect, and mint NFTs, etc.

What makes Optimism unique?

An interesting question and here you get some more background as well from this source at Coinbase

Optimism is more than blockchain technology; it’s a Collective of companies, communities, and citizens working together to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for Ethereum. While some rollups are source available, Optimism’s code is open-sourced and MIT licensed. Specification is designed from the ground up to align with Ethereum, so everything works out of the box exactly the same way it would on Ethereum, enabling developers to immediately start innovating on Optimism without having to learn new programming languages or overhaul code. Optimism is the most forked rollup, and home to a values-aligned community of developers, builders, and crypto enthusiasts.

Source coinbase.com