PSG, which plays at the point of French football, had already partnered with the blockchain platform Socios. com to launch its own “token fan offer” in 2018.
This week, the club has become the 100th football club to register for the Sorare platform, a football game founded on the Ethereum blockchain.
PSG players Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, like club veterans like David Beckham, will be symbolized as limited edition virtual player cards. The score of players’ cards will have their real functionality in the football league tables and the scarcity of collectible cards is evidenced by the use of blockchain technology.
The announcement of the new partnership also coincides with the official launch of Sorare in the United States, which has the largest gaming market in the world.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, a spokesperson for Sorare explained that the game is in closed beta in the United States until December 2019 (by invitation only) and in open beta until its launch on September 28.
Nearly 60 million more people play sports in the United States, according to the knowledge of the Fantasy Games and Sports Association, which makes the blockchain participant market attractive.
“We who with a hundred clubs and 3 of the 10 most sensitive football clubs in the world – Juventus, PSG, Atletico Madrid – are officially on track to start pronouncing the game as a complete gaming experience,” the spokesman said. .
Prior to launch in the US, he noted that “it is necessary to modify, such as the scoring matrix and progression in the Array”
Since its launch in March 2019, Sorare has generated $2 million in card sales in 60 countries.
Nonfungible, a rating for blockchain games and collector’s and non-expendable token transmitters (NFT), recently ranked Sorare fifth and raised $205,131 in volume over seven days, compared to $954,231 for the top-ranked game, Cryptokitties.
The NFT first called in 2017 with the launch of Cryptokitties, which, like Sorare, is on the Ethereum blockchain. The NFT collectibles market is estimated to have reached $370 billion in July 2020.