France’s Paris Saint-Germain football club joins blockchain gaming platform Sorare (www.blockcast.cc)

French football club Paris Saint-Germain (Paris Saint-Germain) is now launching player collections in the form of rare tokens.

PSG is the top football club in France. It has cooperated with the blockchain platform Socios.com to launch its own “fan token product” in 2018.

This week, PSG became the 100th football club to join Sorare, a fantasy football game platform based on the Ethereum blockchain.

Paris Saint-Germain players Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, as well as club veterans such as David Beckham, will be converted into limited edition digital player cards. The score of player cards will depend on their real performance on the football leaderboard, and the scarcity of collectible cards is the guarantee of the use of blockchain technology.

The news of the new cooperation also coincides with the official launch of Sorare in the United States, which has become the world’s second largest market for the game.

A Sorare spokesperson explained in an interview with Cointelegraph that the game has been in closed beta in the United States until December 2019 (by invitation only), and has been in public beta until its release on September 28 stage.

According to the American Fantasy Sports and Game Association, there are nearly 60 million people playing fantasy sports in the United States, which makes the market for blockchain game players particularly attractive.

The spokesperson said: “We believe that with 100 clubs and three of the top ten football clubs-Juventus, PSG, Atletico Madrid-we are now officially starting to provide a comprehensive gaming experience. Come and contribute to this game. advertising.”

Before the US release, he pointed out that the game “needs some fine-tuning, such as scoring matrix and in-game progress.”

Since its launch in March 2019, Sorare has achieved $2 million in credit card sales revenue in 60 countries.

Nonfungible is a ranking site for blockchain games and collectible, non-fungible token (NFT) products. Sorare is currently ranked 5th with a 7-day transaction volume of US$205,131, and the number one game “cryptocat” It is US$954,231.

NFT was first noticed when it launched the “cryptocat” in 2017. Like Sorare, the “cryptocat” is based on the Ethereum blockchain. As of July 2020, the NFT collectibles market is estimated to have reached $370 billion.