{"id":43797,"date":"2021-06-05T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T07:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43797"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:57:54","slug":"ioc-to-release-olympic-pins-as-nft-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ioc-to-release-olympic-pins-as-nft-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC to release Olympic pins as NFT collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC), in collaboration with video game developer nWay, will release a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that will include Olympic pins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">They\u2019re here! <\/p>\n<p>The very first Olympic NFT Pins are available now for collection.<\/p>\n<p>Historic pins from classic Olympic Games.<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nWayPlayNFT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@nWayPlayNFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympics (@Olympics) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics\/status\/1400488163479543808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\\\"\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Olympic heritage collection will span dozens of events: from the 1896 Athens Summer Games to the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>NFT pins will go on sale on June 17. The nWay website will open access to token sets priced from $9 to $499 depending on rarity.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a P2P platform will be launched where collectors can trade and exchange NFTs. For the 2022 Winter Games in Paris, nWay will release a new video game in which players can obtain free digital pins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cOlympic pins were originally conceived as a way to identify athletes, judges and officials, but after 125 years they have become a tradition of the Olympic Games,\u201d said Timo Lamme, Managing Director of IOC Television and Marketing Services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also called the NFT collection announcement \\&#8221;a true evolution of this tradition.\\&#8221; According to Lamme, in the past everyone, \\&#8221;from athletes to event staff, journalists and spectators,\\&#8221; collected pins and traded them at the Olympic Village and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the USA&#8217;s Professional Football League <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/major-league-soccer-to-release-nft-collection\">announced<\/a> an NFT collection.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Kyiv&#8217;s Dynamo <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dynamo-kyiv-to-begin-selling-nft-tickets-for-home-matches\">announced<\/a> the sale of match tickets as non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Topps, the collectible manufacturer, released <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/topps-to-release-mlb-nft-card-series\">the first official MLB trading card series<\/a> as NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC), in collaboration with video game developer nWay, will release a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that will include Olympic pins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,828],"class_list":["post-43797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43799,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797\/revisions\/43799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}