THELOGICALINDIAN - Without any earthshattering sports and crypto account this accomplished anniversary it was still a actual alive anniversary nonetheless The UFC is affairs out a new fan assurance apparatus that rewards fighters with a crypto benefit a new blockchain is entering the NFT amphitheatre and bond with a football fable to do so and ESPN is partnering with Tom Bradys autograph
It’s all aloof a week’s account of activity in the crossover mural of sports and cryptocurrency that we awning every Sunday on The Sports Slice. Let’s review.
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Blockchain.com has had some sports assurance in it’s aboriginal days, but it looks positioned to double-down, authoritative a new appoint this anniversary with Miami-based Marissa Brooks, who will serve as the company’s advance abettor for sports and ball partnerships. Brooks brings a abyss of experience, from antecedent roles at the Miami Heat, LVMH accessory Hublot, and now operating her own cast partnerships and contest firm.
The UFC has formed out a new fighter benefit program alleged the ‘Fan Benefit of the Night,’ which will accord admirers the adeptness to vote for their admired fighter performances on pay-per-view fights. Top three fighters bent by the voters will win banknote prizes paid in Bitcoin, ascent from $10K to $30K for anniversary fighter. It’s a auspicious new booty on crypto payouts, fan voting, and fighter rewards that is much-needed for the league, address of the UFC’s absolute accomplice in Crypto.com.
DAO Maker is the latest cryptocurrency agreement to enter the NFT space; the adept name in DeFi is assuming absorption in accretion their scope, and is blame off with an NFT accumulating in affiliation with longtime football star, Diego Maradona.
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We started accoutrement some of adventure about WAGMI United in letters of ‘The Sports Slice‘ as aboriginal as January, as the ambitious DAO was alive through back-and-forth diplomacy with abeyant European football clubs with hopes of accepting an acquisition.
The day assuredly came this accomplished week, as WAGMI United anchored a accord to access Crawley Town Football Club, an EFL Alliance Two club that currently sits in the middle-ground of alliance standings. WAGMI United co-founder Preston Johnson said,
It should be a different case abstraction that we’ll absolutely be befitting an eye on.
In the gaming and esports corner, Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon is done with NFTs, but the aggregation has ensured that Ubisoft Quartz will still be implemented in added titles – admitting what titles are still unclear. In abbreviate time, Ubisoft has had absolutely a saga about it’s Quartz program.
It’s the first-ever NFT accord for ESPN this accomplished week, as the sports media amassed anchored a new accord with Autograph.io, which will alpha with an NFT accumulating commemorating the Autograph architect himself, Tom Brady. The accumulating will be blue-blooded Man in the Arena: Tom Brady, featuring a 10-part documentary on Brady.
Autograph has done awfully able-bodied partnering with some of the arch sports stars, and now could appearance added absorption in partnering with media and administration ally that could amplify Autograph’s assignment on addition level.
According to letters over the accomplished week, FTX is reportedly attractive to parlay an access into the Indian bazaar alongside a accord with arch candid fantasy platform, Mobile Premier League (or MPL), which is based in India. There are few sports verticals larboard that FTX has larboard untouched. Letters accompaniment that FTX is exploring an advance in MPL through a Series E allotment annular that would amount MPL at almost $2.5B; the brand of Sequoia Capital India and RTP Global are already complex as investors as well.
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