$110,971.00
1.93%$2,781.53
6.25%$2.43
3.39%$670.23
1.56%$157.76
3.01%$0.999902
0.00%$0.290049
1.04%$0.181015
5.01%$2,778.36
6.22%$0.628733
4.96%$111,087.00
2.22%$41.36
5.75%$3,348.89
5.92%$3.24
10.16%$516.35
2.15%$14.35
2.32%$0.290979
8.19%$8.97
-0.60%$19.53
6.10%$0.178151
7.33%$2,976.57
6.03%$0.999723
-0.00%$0.00001254
4.66%$2.88
2.82%$2,779.26
6.19%$90.85
3.30%$46.49
3.14%$0.999464
0.04%$322.73
0.78%$111,042.00
2.03%$3.69
5.49%$1.001
0.04%$4.42
1.75%$8.27
4.89%$0.00001112
8.31%$294.30
-1.46%$0.479462
3.44%$348.94
7.15%$1.18
0.02%$4.61
2.00%$0.094116
-0.52%$2.37
5.08%$48.30
-0.21%$1.00
0.00%$5.20
6.16%$191.65
3.01%$17.70
3.27%$0.848854
5.50%$1.059
0.02%$0.999925
0.05%$0.081206
3.77%$0.608178
4.33%$4.34
3.63%$0.022665
6.49%$4.45
-0.23%$16.05
0.80%$0.209708
1.78%$0.290227
9.02%$9.22
5.51%$0.70276
4.29%$0.361607
6.66%$3.41
5.59%$0.082364
3.19%$0.00002237
3.53%$0.195176
6.58%$2,778.75
6.24%$2.44
4.48%$110,873.00
1.83%$110.26
2.75%$0.931464
6.93%$4.62
1.87%$167.34
3.18%$0.264613
0.39%$0.999619
-0.02%$0.999197
0.02%$11.20
0.91%$1.52
7.42%$0.461632
4.73%$0.999687
0.03%$2,913.11
6.21%$3,165.52
6.11%$1.24
2.09%$0.01945483
32.94%$1.73
6.33%$1.17
10.35%$0.070276
6.83%$0.01635203
1.78%$11.10
4.77%$1.00
0.02%$0.696028
5.53%$1.62
10.60%$2,974.48
6.01%$0.593333
7.84%$0.31993
5.34%$2,863.77
4.16%$110,916.00
2.14%$12.60
-4.95%$0.999747
0.04%$0.970428
13.60%$1.11
0.05%$2,924.81
6.50%$3,328.22
0.78%$110,608.00
1.69%$3.17
5.15%$0.00009403
2.77%$0.999555
-0.05%$0.090938
5.11%$0.151846
2.04%$669.64
1.53%$111,657.00
2.26%$0.457113
6.71%$0.525845
3.74%$2.39
4.51%$177.06
3.08%$3,321.14
0.79%$3,001.18
5.99%$206.05
3.04%$0.562891
3.05%$0.740713
4.01%$0.790877
8.43%$111.73
0.01%$10.74
0.01%$0.01550383
5.66%$0.173945
6.43%$20.40
6.46%$0.998411
0.05%$0.271504
5.83%$1.90
2.00%$2.45
3.17%$40.53
1.56%$0.01311245
6.50%$1.085
-0.01%$0.00000064
2.06%$2,778.79
6.21%$0.731619
2.66%$0.389679
65.51%$0.106585
4.78%$3.73
8.25%$41.23
5.54%$2,981.02
6.29%$0.2311
0.03%$0.568109
4.66%$0.00881497
3.58%$2,942.02
6.96%$110,547.00
2.41%$0.997442
-0.04%$111,022.00
2.02%$2,781.10
6.26%$0.410098
0.76%$0.353271
3.32%$0.287493
4.07%$0.99755
0.22%$110,904.00
1.95%$0.485051
-3.35%$0.514714
2.45%$1.61
9.67%$25.50
2.88%$0.633358
3.49%$0.999827
0.02%$0.00000128
13.44%$0.050329
12.71%$1.42
4.24%$0.998465
-0.04%$2,779.75
6.21%$0.01401239
2.28%$41.21
5.52%$0.225032
-0.78%$0.999902
0.00%$0.180915
5.39%$0.124028
6.71%$0.00755715
4.73%$7.73
0.00%$2.38
0.90%$0.00437837
0.91%$0.00000044
0.60%$0.403526
0.98%$0.060779
0.25%$2,960.36
6.38%$1.00
0.00%$45.71
12.26%$0.568934
4.42%$5.88
4.13%$1.10
16.67%$1.093
0.01%$14.29
3.41%$0.999162
0.74%$0.077996
2.92%$0.159036
8.95%$1.25
8.01%$1.002
-0.06%$0.00001946
3.00%$0.325213
5.12%$0.14666
0.07%$0.380348
5.32%$2.30
4.52%$2,772.74
5.98%$3,066.54
6.18%$0.524266
3.87%$5.70
7.87%$110,560.00
1.73%$0.00402786
5.47%$1.53
4.32%$3,041.61
6.16%$1.00
-0.01%$0.03775046
3.55%$0.04965641
7.64%$2,781.43
6.22%$0.03513213
1.37%$0.00652284
5.66%$0.341815
5.79%$20.63
0.47%$1.15
-4.38%$0.01762945
1.50%$110,962.00
1.99%$2,778.91
6.13%$172.30
3.03%$0.340561
15.65%$0.505561
3.39%$0.00006037
3.51%$0.999523
-0.04%$0.069113
1.68%$0.789988
7.75%$1.16
5.89%$0.702294
4.46%$119.18
4.56%$0.00363872
20.69%$0.999081
-0.02%$3,365.88
6.25%$1.00
0.04%$0.999417
-0.02%$10.54
1.96%$0.209626
1.74%$0.305597
0.67%$0.728188
2.29%$0.21472
4.12%$0.296902
11.17%$0.00351118
2.99%$0.999586
-0.05%$19.45
5.85%$1.02
0.05%$0.621547
3.73%$1.22
0.24%$15.08
12.34%$110,673.00
1.89%$0.00401775
5.53%$16.42
2.88%$2,227.40
1.91%$23.64
5.80%Reading
Matchday, a soccer-centric Web3 gaming startup, announced today that it has raised $21 million in seed funding to develop a suite of games—with legendary soccer player Lionel Messi’s venture capital firm onboard.
Messi’s Play Time firm backed the startup, with Courtside Ventures, Greylock, HackVC, Capricorn Investment Group, and Horizons Ventures also participating in the round. Spanish soccer star Alexia Putellas, meanwhile, serves as Matchday’s founding global ambassador.
The soccer legend—who plays for pro team Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and recently led Argentina’s national team to the 2022 FIFA World Cup win—has already made a number of moves in the NFT world.
One of soccer’s living legends is delving deeper into the world of crypto. Lionel Messi has signed a deal reportedly worth $20 million to promote fan token platform Socios on the world’s stage. The deal was made in fiat rather than cryptocurrencies, a spokesperson confirmed with Decrypt. As a brand ambassador, Messi will participate in several promotional and educational campaigns. The first campaign’s tagline is “be more,” and will be used to onboard users to the Socios platform. "As global b...
He’s a brand ambassador for prominent NFT fantasy soccer game Sorare, as well as fan token platform Socios; Messi invested in the former and signed a $20 million endorsement deal with the latter. He has also released his own official NFT collectibles through the Ethernity Chain platform.
Matchday has an official license from FIFA, the governing body behind the World Cup, as well as the FIFPRO players association. In a statement, Matchday co-founder and CEO Derrick Ko explained that the games will be optimized for “casual” users.
“We are building for an untapped audience in the football community,” Ko said.
Matchday’s Chief Gaming Officer Sebastien de Halleux previously served as an executive at the major game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he worked on the company's own FIFA game series and the Madden NFT franchise.
“Our games will be accessible for all players, and centered around true ownership of digital items that will be a point of pride for all players,” De Halleux said in a statement.
Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his seminal 1992 sci-fi hit novel “Snow Crash.” Now he’s helming a metaverse blockchain company called Lamina1 and advocating for one free and open metaverse. He spoke to Dan Roberts and Stephen Graves at length about what he got right and wrong in “Snow Crash,” goggles and flat screens, Big Tech, NFTs and digital ownership, and more. Watch and make sure to subscribe to the gm podcast on Apple or Spotify.
In Web3 gaming, such “digital items” are typically registered on-chain as NFTs—unique blockchain tokens that signify ownership over digital assets like in-game characters, skins, or items. Matchday previously released a limited-time mini-game during the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and gave out 2 million NFT player cards to roughly 600,000 users.
Soccer giants have already taken considerable steps into Web3. Sorare raised $680 million at a $4.3 billion valuation in 2021 and has racked up hundreds of team and league licenses while also expanding out into other sports. Last fall, FIFA launched an NFT platform on Algorand, and dozens of teams have released Socios fan tokens that sometimes rise or drop in price based on their on-the-pitch performance.
Three years after a peak NFT mania that drove monthly trading volume to billions of dollars and put the Bored Ape Yacht Club on The Tonight Show, the collectible tokens are once more gaining steam—and so is popular NFT marketplace OpenSea. NFT trading volume recently hit a three-month high, and after marketplace competitor Magic Eden concluded its own ME airdrop, speculation is heating up about a potential OpenSea token. The marketplace may or may not be teasing it, recently asking X (formerly...
The Philadelphia 76ers have launched "Spectrum Sprint," a free-to-play mobile game with Web3 elements, in collaboration with Crypto.com—a team sponsor since 2021. The NBA team’s game features a pixel art vibe, with side-scrolling gameplay that challenges players to navigate iconic Philadelphia landmarks and dash down Broad Street towards the team’s former Spectrum arena. Players can unlock digital collectibles and compete for exclusive prizes across four tiers: Rookie, Pro, All-Star, and Legend....
Nifty Island embraced a wide array of established communities in Web3 to help expand its Roblox-style metaverse game. Now it’s rewarding them. The project, which pioneered the now-popular “play-to-airdrop” campaign, just launched ISLAND, an Ethereum-based utility token that serves as the ecosystem token for its in-game economy. Below, learn everything you need to know about ISLAND now that it's live. What is ISLAND? ISLAND is the native token of the Nifty Island ecosystem, offering holders “i...
