Cristiano Ronaldo joins the fight against Covid-19 that has triggered a global health scare and jolted the global sporting calendar. All CR7 hotels are set to be converted into hospitals.Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo announced that he will transform all his CR7 hotels into coronavirus hospitals. Spanish ‘Marca’ newspaper said:“All the hotels owned by Cristiano from the next few days will be transformed into free hospitals for Coronavirus patients who need a bed and a structure...
Read More »Chiliz Integrates with Chainlink to Auto-Mint Tokens for Partners Like FC Barcelona
Chiliz (CHZ) and Chainlink will cooperate on the facilitation of real-time automated mint of non-fungible tokens for their partners like FC Barcelona.Through a medium post on March 4, Chiliz (CHZ) announced it will be integrating its services with Chainlink. According to the post, the integration will facilitate Chiliz to mint the Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) for partner clubs like FC Barcelona on their fan voting and also the rewards app in real-time. This will be enabled by the raw data which...
Read More »Juventus Signs Deal with Sorare Blockchain to Offer Digital Collectibles for Football Fans
Thanks to Ethereum’s ERC-721 standard, here’s one more weird way of using blockchain to deliver customers an unforgettable experience. Sorare startup offers football clubs to deliver blockchain cards with the favorite players, buy and exchange them.Sorare is a platform that allows football clubs to identify themselves with blockchain movement and increase fanbase. Juventus, a famous Italian football club inks the deal with gaming startup Sorare. Now, the club participants like Cristiano...
Read More »Barcelona Is the Richest Football Club, Will It Turn to Tokenization?
For the first time, FC Barcelona came in the top leading place of the world’s most money-spinning football clubs regarding the annual league table. This also marked the transaction of power in London and the north-west.The Spanish champions saw their revenue grow to €840.8 million (£741.1 million) last year. This represents a record figure for any team and it is almost 10 % more than a domestic competitor Real Madrid has.Manchester United said its income was €711.5 million (£627.1 million) in...
Read More »Barcelona and Real Madrid Are the Best-Paid Teams, Shows Sporting Intelligence Survey
Every year, online-provider of sports news Sporting Intelligence conducts Global Sports Salaries Survey. The survey represents the basic annual pay of teams and shows the best-paid of them. According to the latest Sporting Intelligence survey, this year Spanish Barcelona and Real Madrid and Italy’s Juventus have enjoyed the highest salaries. It is notable that Barcelona has managed to keep its top status for the second year in a row.Global Sports Salaries Survey 2019 reads:“Barcelona have...
Read More »Ronaldo’s Juventus Scores the World’s Most Pointless Blockchain Use-Case
Blockchain company Socios has partnered with football club Juventus to launch a $JUV token.Fans can buy the token and use it to vote on which song the club will play in the Allianz stadium.Yet another example of a project that doesn’t need a blockchain or a token.File this under: things that absolutely don’t need a blockchain. Juventus fans can now vote on which song will be played at the Allianz stadium when Ronaldo or Dybala score. The catch? You need to buy $JUV tokens through the...
Read More »NBA’s Sacramento Kings Launches Industry’s First Token to Reward Loyal Fans
The NBA’s Sacramento Kings has announced that they will roll out their new ‘Kings Token’ for fan rewards. That makes them the first NBA team to create a reward program based on blockchain.Announced on October 7, Kings Token was created in partnership with Blockparty. Blockparty is a blockchain platform that manages live event ticketing, tokenized gamification and fan engagement. Blockparty’s chief development officer, Vladislav Ginzburg, explained:“In our opinion, the blockchain has a role in...
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