French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain hasn't dropped the blockchain baton just yet, with the club now set to issue player collectibles as rare tokens.
PSG - which plays in the highest tier of French soccer - had already partnered with blockchain platform Socios.com to launch its own "Fan Token Offering" in 2018.
This week, the club has become the 100th soccer club to join the Ethereum blockchain-based fantasy soccer game Sorare platform.
The score of player cards will depend on their real-life performances in soccer league tables and the rarity of collectible cards is vouched for using blockchain technology.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, a spokesperson for Sorare explained that the game had been in closed beta in the U.S. through to Dec. 2019, and open beta until its launch on Sept. 28.
Close to 60 million people play fantasy sports in the U.S., according to data from the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association - making the market for blockchain entrants particularly attractive.
Ahead of the U.S. launch, he noted that the game had "Needed some fine-tuning, such as the scoring matrix and the progression within the game."
Since its launch in March 2019, Sorare has generated $2 million in revenue from card sales across 60 countries.
Nonfungible - a rankings site for blockchain games and issuers of collectible, non-fungible tokens - currently has Sorare ranked 5th. It reports $205,131 in 7-day volume as compared with $954,231 for the top-ranked game, Cryptokitties.
NFTs first came to prominence in 2017 with the launch of Cryptokitties, which, like Sorare, is based on the Ethereum blockchain.
Blockchain-based fantasy soccer game Sorare signs on Paris Saint-Germain
Publicado en Sep 29, 2020
by Cointele | Publicado en Coinage
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