Not just football: Sorare expands to other fantasy sports with NFTs

After the remarkable success of fantasy football combined with the blockchain, which at the end of 2021 generated 30 million dollars in monthly exchanges and it is also very popular in Italy (third most active country)Sorare tries again and changes the field in some way.

The next step is to go from the rectangle to the typical baseball diamond: the startup, born in 2018 and quoted over 4 billion dollars, has made an agreement with the MLB, the oldest American league of baseball, and the first free-to-play game based on the Major League’s NFTs will be released in the course of the summer of 2022. This is no small move, as it opens up a catchment area in Sorare that it could be even broader than football: in the US baseball is both a sport, a national pastime and an institution. There game formula it will be more or less the same: the purpose of fantasy baseball will be to create an NFT team that best represents Major League players to “connect even more with the athletes, clubs and the league during the live match experience”.

The idea, as for fantasy football, is not only to encourage people to collect NFT, but also to bring them closer to the most loved teams and players. And also reward them, with the possibility of win weekly rewards that turn into concrete experiences, in the real world.

Up more than 30% from month to month

The partnership should obviously have positive repercussions on the Major League as well, because Sorare also has a considerable catchment area: the platform can count on a community of 1.7 million registered users in 184 countries, whose numbers have grown by more than 30% per month, every month for the past 12 months.

Nicolas Julia, co-founder and chief executive of Sorare, recalled that “the bond between Americans and baseball is lasting” and that “baseball has always been at the forefront of new technologies and innovations: we are proud that MLB has chosen Sorare to bring a game NFT to fans around the world ”. An interesting detail, always emphasized by Julia, is that “on the one hand, MLB has been at the forefront of interactive games for decades, and on the other some of the oldest and most established forms of memorabilia exist in the world of baseball sports: these two facts show how much fans want to own the game and be part of it “. Something that can be started this summer.