The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club has announced a partnership with New Zealand-based NFT studio and marketplace Glorious. The partnership is anchored around exploring the creation of digital masterpieces that celebrate the rich history and legacy of Wimbledon. Commenting on the partnership, Alexandra Willis, Communications and Marketing Director at the All England […]
Sorare to launch NFTs for MLS players as part of new partnership
Sorare, the player-owned fantasy sports game leveraging non-fungible tokens (NFTs), announced a multi-year agreement with Major League Soccer (MLS), the fastest-growing sports league in North America, making Sorare the League’s official NFT Fantasy game. Sorare will launch NFTs for all MLS players. MLS’ fan base – North America’s youngest and most tech-savvy – collectors, […]
Petrit Berisha | Why NFTs are NOT a passing fad
NFTs are not a passing fad. NFTs are the natural evolution of the way humans create culture and communicate with each other. In the 90s we had the internet. In the 2000s it was social media. Now, it’s NFTs. That’s how big this is. 30-40,000 years ago, before humans could […]
Sorare raises $680M Series B from Softbank to accelerate NFTs
Sorare, the fantasy football platform has raised $680 million in Series B financing led by Softbank, with participation from Atomico, Bessemer Ventures, D1 Capital, Eurazeo, IVP and Liontree; and existing investors Benchmark, Accel and Headline. The investment, Europe’s biggest ever Series B, gives Sorare a new valuation of $4.3 billion. Sorare will use this investment […]
RLWC2021 on-boards NuArca to launch NFT experience
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) has announced a commercial partnership with NuArca which will see the launch of a non-fungible token (NFT) fan experience and marketplace for the tournament – the first official NFT marketplace in the history of Rugby League. Rugby League World Cup 2021 will be the biggest and best Rugby […]
LaLiga partners Sorare to launch NFTs
Sorare, the fantasy football platform, has announced a partnership with Spain’s LaLiga to launch non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for all of its players, creating new revenue streams for LaLiga Clubs via a new category of licences. LaLiga fans, collectors and fantasy football players will for the first time be able to freely trade and play with […]
Former Walt Disney Co-Executive Rob Thompson : “We have our eyes on how athletes are leveraging social channels to build a community”
The Playknox spoke with Rob Thompson, Founder of a non-profit association GamePlanU connecting early-mid stage sports innovators, industry executives, future leaders and Angel investors. He has also authored books “Land A Dream Job If Dad Doesn’t Own The Team” an Amazon #1 New Book release in 2018, and published ” Sports Dream Job Playbook” helping […]
Amrit Kumar of Zilliqa: “Our co-created NFT collection featuring James Rodríguez, Diego Costa among others with Polaris will bring footballers monetisation opportunities for their own personal brands”
NFT (Non-Fungible Token) have become the latest rage globally. NFTs are digital assets that serves as a secure record of ownership for an item or collection of items, stored on select blockchain. Zilliqa is a public blockchain platform best known for its early implementation of sharding, a scaling solution that breaks transaction validating nodes in […]