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Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitget Seals 'Multi-Million Dollar' Deal With La Liga

"We still haven't decided" how the partnership with Lionel Messi, which ends this year, will evolve,

Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget (Second from right in cap) Fernando Morientes, La Liga Ambassador (Center) at Token2049 Singapore. (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Markets

Floki Scores Major Deals With English Premier League Teams

Ecosystem tokens and its flagship Valhalla game will be widely featured on stadium screens and as uniform sponsors, boosting the project's visibility as part of an initial one-year contract.

A detailed view of the Premier League Trophy on August 18, 2024. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)

Markets

Chiliz's CHZ Token Pre-UEFA Euro Price Surge Revives FIFA Memories

CHZ has surged over 20% in seven days, the third-biggest gain among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market value.

CHZ's price rally. (Source: CoinDesk)

Markets

PSG Fan Token Jumps 25% as Football Club Triumphs Over Barcelona

Paris Saint-Germain's fan token is one of several issued for sports clubs by the crypto company Socios.

Paris Saint-Germain stadium (Tim Lontano/Unsplash)

Web3

Credit Suisse and Swiss Football Association to Release Women's Football NFT Collection

All the proceeds from the collection, featuring portraits of the Swiss Women’s National Team, will be donated to support women’s football in Switzerland.

Swiss Women's National Team (Credit Suisse)

Web3

DigiDaigaku NFTs' Price Rises After $6.5M Super Bowl Ad

Limit Break’s commercial Sunday advertised a free “digital collectible” for scanning a QR code. The floor price on OpenSea Monday is hovering around 0.31 ETH, or about $460.

DigiDagaku NFTs (OpenSea)

Videos

Super Bowl LVII Won't Be a 'Crypto Bowl' Like Last Year

In 2022, crypto companies spent a combined $54 million on Super Bowl ads, according to MediaRadar. This year, expensive crypto ads with famous faces won't be part of the big football game broadcast. "Brands are weary to associate themselves with crypto...whether it's fair or not," said Adweek Senior Reporter Patrick Kulp. He shares more insights into the lack of crypto ads this year.

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Web3

NFL Rivals Game Adds QBs Hurts, Mahomes to NFT Lineup Ahead of Super Bowl

Web3 gaming studio Mythical Games is capitalizing on the rivalry between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs by rolling out 22 new NFTs of players from the football teams in time for the championship game.

(NFL Rivals)

Finance

Crypto Super Bowl Advertising Will Be Absent This Year

It's a notable change from last year's National Football League championship, where crypto ads were so prevalent the event was dubbed the "Crypto Bowl."

Last year's Super Bowl ads included one from FTX featuring Larry David (dentsuMB/FTX)

Finance

UC Berkeley Suspends Stadium Naming Rights Deal With FTX

The 10-year deal is the latest to fall through in the wake of the crypto exchange’s bankruptcy filing.

California Memorial Stadium (Kilfmuny/Wikipedia)

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