Lionel Messi


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

Lionel Messi Promotes Obscure Meme Coin on Instagram, Leading to 350% Surge

The price of WATER jumped from $0.00032 to $0.00146 in the two hours following Messi's post, drawing criticism from the crypto community.

Lionel Messi's Jersey (dwlly/Unsplash)

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10 Crypto Sports All-Stars

For each Crypto All-Star, we tried to calculate what you would have gained – or lost – if you invested $1,000 in the All-Star's chosen project at the time of his or her announcement. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sports Week.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance to Sponsor Argentina’s National Soccer Team, Professional ​​League

The agreement, which will last five years, is the first the global crypto exchange has signed with a national soccer team.

Argentina celebrates its Copa America 2021 victory.

Videos

Lionel Messi’s Paris St. Germain Transfer Included Crypto Fan Tokens

Argentinian soccer legend Lionel Messi’s signing-on fee to French club Paris St. Germain (PSG) from FC Barcelona included a payment in crypto fan tokens provided by blockchain-based fan-token provider Socios.com. “The Hash” group discusses their take on Messi continuing to experiment with crypto and what this could signal about the future of mainstream adoption.

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Markets

Lionel Messi's Paris St. Germain Transfer Included Crypto Fan Tokens

Messi's signing-on fee for the French club included an undisclosed number of fan tokens provided by Socios.com.

Lionel Messi - Presentation at Paris Saint-Germain

Videos

Soccer Legend Leo Messi Drops First NFTs

Enter: The Messiverse. Iconic soccer player Lionel Messi is teaming up with the Ethernity platform and digital design firm BossLogic to launch his first official non-fungible tokens (NFTs). "The Hash" team discusses the latest sporting legend jumping on the NFT bandwagon, bringing blockchain awareness to the masses.

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