Guardians of the Blue: World Fisheries Day Special Event

4 min readOct 20, 2024

Dear Ocean Guardians,

In celebration of World Fisheries Day on November 21st, we cordially invite you to participate in our new special event, “Guardians of the Blue: Sustainable Fisheries.” Let’s join hands to contribute to blue shark conservation, ocean cleanliness, and sustainable fishing practices!

Event Details

Theme: Blue Shark Conservation, Sustainable Fisheries, and Marine Debris Reduction
Duration: November 1st — Dec 20th
How to Participate:

Blue Shark Art Creation: Download our app, color the blue shark drawing template, and submit it (see ‘How to Participate’ section below for detailed steps). You need to complete both the minting and redeeming steps of the mintpass.
Sustainable Seas Pledge: Submit a brief pledge on your X or IG account, along with a screenshot of your blue shark artwork. Tag our official account and explain how you will support sustainable fisheries or reduce marine debris. For example, commit to buying sustainably caught seafood or reducing single-use plastic consumption.

On IG, use the hashtag #WorldFisheriesDay and tag our official account @mindfuloceannft.
On X, use the hashtag #WorldFisheriesDay and tag our official account @MindfulOceanNFT.

Prizes

First Prize (Two Winners): One special NFT each, created by two Hong Kong artists — Gabriel Li and Peanut, inspired by marine conservation.
Second Prize: All participants will receive a unique NFT created by the MOM team, themed around ocean cleanliness and marine debris reduction.

Event Schedule

Participation Period: November 1st — November 30th
Winner Selection: December 1st — December 10th
Prize Airdrop: December 11th — December 20th

Who Can Participate

Open to all individuals interested in marine conservation, sustainable fisheries, mindfulness, and Web3, with a special welcome to MOM community members.

Let’s work together to protect blue sharks and our oceans by supporting sustainable fisheries and reducing marine debris!

The Prerequisite of Participation

You need to have an iOS device that can install our iOS app in the Apple app store.
You need to have a crypto wallet. We recommend you to use a computer with MetaMask installed in Google Chrome.
You need to have some POLs to pay for the gas fee involved.

Important Information for Participants

Please complete the following tasks to avoid missing important event messages:

Follow @MindfulOceanNFT on X; Or follow @mindfuloceannft on IG;
Join the official Discord server of Mindful Ocean Metaverse;
Please kindly share our event’s posts on X/IG.

How to Participate

In our iOS app, create and submit a blue shark artwork.
On our website, create a Mint Pass using your submitted artwork. The Mint Pass proves that you have submitted an artwork to the art contest.
Before the Artwork Submission deadline, you can create as many artwork and Mint Pass as you like.
After you submit an artwork, there will be a 4-hour wait period before you can submit another artwork. This encourages you to take a slower pace, practice mindfulness through art-making, and add more details to your design.
During the Artwork Evaluation stage, we will select the winners according to the winner selection criteria of the art contest below.
Please be sure to redeem your Mint Pass to ensure you qualify.

Winners Selection Criteria

For all participants that have completed the entire process, including minting the MintPass and ultimately redeeming it, we will use AI to rank the rarity of their submissions. The first prizes will be distributed based on this rarity ranking score.

How Winners Receive the Prizes

Winners will receive the winning notification via X, IG or email.
To be qualified to receive a prize, you must:
Be a registered user in mindful-ocean.org who has burnt a Mint Pass to redeem a Mindful Ocean NFT that won a prize.
Follow @MindfulOceanNFT on X; Or follow @mindfuloceannft on IG;
Join the official Discord server of Mindful Ocean Metaverse;
Share a post on X/IG about your prize won, tagging @MindfulOceanNFT or @mindfuloceannft
Send the link of your X/IG’s post to our Admin on the Discord server.

Important Notes about Selling or Buying Mint Passes

You can sell your Mint Passes to interested buyers in any secondary markets.
When you sell your Mint Pass, your right to receive the prize associated with the Mint Pass is also transferred to the buyer alongside the ownership of the Mint Pass.
When buying a Mint Pass in secondary markets, make sure the Mint Pass has
a valid Contract Address
a valid Token ID
a valid Last Updated info
For each Mindful Ocean Art Contest, we will post the info of how to identify valid Mint Pass on our Discord server.
When you are not sure whether a Mint Pass is valid or not, please send an inquiry to support@mindful-ocean.org

How to Download Our iOS App

Please use the following link or QR code to download our iOS app

https://rb.gy/gwcc9g

Disqualification

Submissions with an intellectual property breach will be disqualified.
Submissions with inappropriate content such as sexually explicit material, profanity, or violence will be disqualified
Creators of the disqualified posts will be contacted, in which the reasons for the disqualification will be provided.

Links

iOS App