{"id":27274,"date":"2022-11-10T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/?p=27274"},"modified":"2022-11-10T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:05:44","slug":"messi-to-endorse-and-and-invest-in-blockchain-based-fantasy-gaming-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/news\/messi-to-endorse-and-and-invest-in-blockchain-based-fantasy-gaming-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi to endorse and invest in blockchain-based fantasy gaming platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi, the renowned Argentinian football legend, has decided to throw his weight behind fantasy gaming company Sorare as an ambassador and investor. Sorare\u2019s fantasy soccer game is built on blockchain technology.<\/p>\n

The news came to light on 9 November. Subsequently, the French gaming platform confirmed the development with a tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Messi<\/p>\n

With this move, Messi, a player in the popular French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain, is following in the footsteps of other athletes who have forayed into the Web 3.0 space, including teammate Kylian Mbapp\u00e9. American tennis legend Serena Williams is another well-known sportsperson to have assumed an ambassadorial position with Sorare.<\/p>\n

Messi himself is no stranger to the crypto and Web 3.0 space. The seven-time Ballon d’Or award winner has earlier tied up with the NFT fan token platform, Socios. As part of that two-year deal, Messi was due to receive part of his salary in $PSG fan tokens, a crypto developed by Socios for Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n

What do we know about the Messi-Sorare deal?<\/h2>\n

Nicolas Julia, Sorare\u2019s CEO and co-founder, told CNBC<\/a> that the partnership with the soccer star marks a huge milestone for the company. The company expects that the collaboration will create new content and fan experiences as part of the new association, she added.<\/p>\n

Details are yet to emerge about Messi\u2019s role as an investor\u2014the other part of the Sorare deal. The size of his holdings, for instance, have not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n

More about Sorare<\/h2>\n

Speaking to CNBC in the light of the development, Julia argued that while a lot of hype does surround soccer projects that rely on non-fungible technology, only a few last. The shelf life of projects like Sorare depends on their \u201creal underlying utility,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n

Sorare has over 2 million users in over 185 countries. It has partnered with over 300 sports teams and leagues, including Spain\u2019s La Liga and Germany\u2019s Bundesligal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi, the renowned Argentinian football legend, has decided to throw his weight behind fantasy gaming company Sorare as an ambassador and investor. Sorare\u2019s fantasy soccer game is built on blockchain technology. The news came to light on 9 November. Subsequently, the French gaming platform confirmed the development with a tweet. With this move, Messi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":27275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7701],"tags":[6467,6536],"class_list":["post-27274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-news"],"acf":{"json_ld_schema":"\n[{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/us-stocks\/wall-street-jottings\/#FAQPage\",\"headline\":\"Wall Street jottings: A personal, guided tour to investing in US stocks\",\"keywords\":\"Personal Guide, US Investing, \",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-22T13:28:55+05:30\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-19T19:04:28+05:30\",\"dateCreated\":\"2022-07-22T13:28:55+05:30\",\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Akumbenla Jamir\",\"description\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/author\/akumbenla\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/38aea2873be2850fa7502413626eea19?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"height\":96,\"width\":96}},\"image\":[{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/us-stocks\/wall-street-jottings\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Wall-Street-Jottings.jpg\",\"width\":\"1800\",\"height\":\"1080\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Wall-Street-Jottings-1200x900.jpg\",\"width\":\"1200\",\"height\":\"900\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Wall-Street-Jottings-1200x675.jpg\",\"width\":\"1200\",\"height\":\"675\"}]}]\n","json_ld_custom_schema":"","youtube_vodeo_url":"","seo":{"title":"","keywords":"","description":"","canonical":""},"blog_banner_image":false,"blog_coin":false,"download_the_app":{"button_value":"","button_url":""},"twitter_card":{"twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_link":""},"maturity_tag":"","post_author":false,"guest_author":false,"hide_toc":false,"select_disclaimer":"Article Default Disclaimer","key_takeways":false},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27280,"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274\/revisions\/27280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinswitch.co\/switch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}