$87,138.00
2.31%$1,905.29
-0.53%$2.17
0.65%$607.05
-1.07%$131.12
1.93%$0.999993
0.00%$0.174847
0.56%$0.692096
0.43%$0.238312
0.85%$1,905.75
-0.54%$87,024.00
2.27%$4.05
1.06%$14.08
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0.55%$0.273849
-1.53%$2,283.09
-0.66%$19.78
0.32%$2.48
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0.00%$0.00001281
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-1.03%$86.12
0.85%$4.19
-0.47%$312.50
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0.14%$4.61
0.12%$1,906.09
-0.44%$0.999908
-0.01%$0.998143
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3.59%$0.684823
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1.18%$28.20
0.15%$6.23
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0.84%$5.42
0.00%$2.66
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-0.06%$48.06
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0.93%$22.94
0.41%$86,868.00
1.96%$34.28
2.17%$0.865415
5.28%$0.798196
0.61%$5.40
-2.28%$0.986529
-1.07%$16.85
-1.74%$164.13
-2.91%$1.17
0.21%$10.52
1.22%$4.53
1.83%$0.0233454
-1.35%$231.44
-0.10%$0.3724
1.61%$3.77
1.09%$1.00
0.00%$87,141.00
2.15%$2.87
-0.55%$3.17
0.04%$0.067708
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0.48%$0.197984
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-0.39%$0.332279
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1.95%$0.836681
20.32%$0.468026
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-0.03%$4.54
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1.96%$0.067491
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-2.31%$0.405034
-1.61%$0.00001259
4.79%$0.792298
-4.67%$1.001
0.12%$0.627836
0.02%$0.524311
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0.05%$0.17606
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4.68%$0.999238
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-1.77%$0.999612
0.04%$0.0132501
-4.55%$0.886496
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0.25%$85,841.00
2.08%$605.44
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2.31%$2.32
1.32%$0.541708
1.34%$87,076.00
2.41%$0.01587585
-0.65%$0.66961
-0.20%$0.999922
-0.06%$3,138.99
0.22%$0.27744
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-0.45%$0.176443
-1.10%$32.44
-0.76%$0.999695
0.02%$0.109134
3.94%$167.59
2.16%$1.001
0.12%$0.390755
-1.07%$2.01
9.40%$1,984.29
-0.49%$0.00005945
-2.05%$7.36
-2.99%$1.91
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1.93%$16.39
-0.71%$0.539307
4.16%$1.95
6.58%$1.00
0.03%$0.01086394
-4.20%$0.145169
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9.16%$0.073398
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2.69%$86,180.00
1.94%$0.496246
1.68%$0.998255
0.08%$0.637434
-4.12%$0.00518435
5.26%$0.253824
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0.02%$2.93
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0.08%$16.50
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-0.58%$0.174236
0.64%$0.721588
0.34%$27.20
-1.97%$86,686.00
1.85%$0.086223
4.95%$86,615.00
1.34%$0.00000044
0.03%$0.398685
2.86%$0.999704
-0.01%$1,908.70
-0.23%$1.21
0.77%$0.146041
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1.34%$1,901.71
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0.01%$0.00002012
-0.27%$44.21
-6.26%$0.606416
0.13%$6.02
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2.09%$1,988.21
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0.43%$0.469713
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0.04%$0.197963
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0.10%$4.80
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4.83%$1.003
0.04%$0.00513135
-3.68%$0.03241627
-2.20%$1.29
7.09%$0.03210287
3.40%$0.00375656
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11.91%$1,889.33
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0.39%$0.0033794
21.90%$1.42
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23.05%$2.95
2.25%$86,820.00
2.19%$3.55
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1.61%$0.999707
-0.00%$22.53
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0.05%$2,009.37
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0.50%$0.522842
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2.38%$2,068.84
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1.98%$1.001
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2.23%$21.83
4.28%$1,906.14
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10.75%$0.078687
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2.89%$0.526433
0.38%$0.899527
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1.54%$0.0046885
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0.43%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.
Logan Paul’s lawsuit against YouTuber Coffeezilla is moving forward after a U.S. magistrate judge denied the crypto sleuth’s request to dismiss Paul’s claims with prejudice. Counsel for Coffeezilla, whose real name is Stephen Findeisen, filed a motion to dismiss the claims in February on behalf of Findeisen and Coffee Break Productions LLC, claiming that the alleged libelous statements were not capable of defaming Paul. Texas magistrate judge Henry J. Bemporad disagreed, noting that Findeisen’s...
Ethereum NFT marketplace X2Y2 is shutting down its trading platform at the end of April, the firm announced Monday, as the development team pivots to the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto. X2Y2’s smart contracts will persist, so trades can still be executed, but users will not be able to use the website’s front-end after April 30. “I know this might sting, especially when it comes to token price. X2Y2 tokens were tied to this NFT vision, and as we close this chapter, that...
Ethereum gaming metaverse platform The Sandbox will launch its Alpha Season 5 on Monday, March 31, bringing a number of new game experiences tied to major franchises. The six-week gaming event will introduce over 40 new games from an array of brands and franchises, including Jurassic World, Teletubbies, Atari, Attack on Titan, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Hellboy. As Decrypt previously reported, the season's flagship experience, Jurassic World: Dinosaur Preserve, invites players to manage a dinosa...
