Spanish La Liga Offers Player NFTs
The Punters Pick #18 — The Spanish football league partners with Sorare to implement NFTs
Blockchain gaming has achieved yet another milestone as one of the top football leagues in the world embarked on NFT implementation. On September 9th, Spain’s La Liga became the first major football league to offer NFTs of all the players within the esteemed football league. With these NFTs, fans will be able to collect, trade, and compete in fantasy leagues.
The implementation by La Liga was achieved in partnership with the French digital soccer collectibles platform Sorare. The implementation will involve NFTs that represent players from the top 20 clubs in Spain, which includes Real Madrid, Barcelona, Athletico Madrid, and several others.
In the latest version of The Punters Pick, we detail the recent NFT implementation and highlight the ambitions of Sorare to attract more major leagues. We also consider the new possibilities that these NFTs will bring to fans. But before we highlight the Sorare-La Liga initiative, we present our weekly development update.
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A profitable opportunity for football fans
Although La Liga is the first league to licence Sorare, it is not the first major licence in the world of football. Before now, the platform had been licensed to produce NFTs for over 100 top football teams across the world. Real Madrid, AC Milan, Juventus, Paris Saint Germain, Liverpool FC, and several other football clubs have already been involved with Sorare.
The startup aims to provide an avenue for participants in the world of football to capitalize on the promise of NFTs and the blockchain industry as a whole. NFTs, which are cryptographically unique tokens, are deployed in a virtual football world, where participants can extract benefits through different avenues, such as trading, and playing tournaments.
The President of La Liga Javier Tebas foresees partnering with Sorare as a way to reach new audiences at the global level. He also believes that this development will enable fans to get involved with the sport in new and interesting ways.
The deal with La Liga is just one among many other deals that are planned by Sorare across the world of football. According to reports, partnerships with the top 20 leagues across the world are in the pipeline by the end of 2022.
Making it easy for users to connect to blockchain games
Using NFTs that are immersed in games has been a significant advancement in the world of blockchain gaming. It has spurred new waves of interest in blockchain-based gaming and has also set the foundation for a wider movement called play-to-earn where players earn cryptocurrency through their gaming activities and convert these earnings into their local currency.
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