{"id":48160,"date":"2021-08-23T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48160"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:50:57","slug":"ftx-renames-california-golden-bears-baseball-stadium-to-cal-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ftx-renames-california-golden-bears-baseball-stadium-to-cal-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX renames California Golden Bears baseball stadium to Cal Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin exchange FTX signed a ten-year contract with the California Golden Bears baseball club to rename the Cal Memorial stadium. Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n<p>The venue has been named FTX Field. The deal is valued at $17.5 million. Payment will be made in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The father of the founder and CEO of the Bitcoin exchange is a UC Berkeley alumnus, the university represented by the California Golden Bears.<\/p>\n<p>FTX&#8217;s chief operating officer Sina Nader played for the club in college.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March, the bitcoin exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-to-secure-naming-rights-for-the-miami-heat-arena\">signed<\/a> a partnership with the NBA&#8217;s Miami Heat to rename their stadium to FTX Arena.<\/p>\n<p>In June the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-signs-five-year-deal-with-major-league-baseball\">signed<\/a> a five-year contract with Major League Baseball, under which the FTX.US logo will appear on the uniforms of league umpires.<\/p>\n<p>In August, FTX <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-signs-seven-year-sponsorship-deal-with-riot-games\">entered into<\/a> a seven-year agreement with Riot Games granting the right to display its brand during the League of Legends seasonal tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news on cryptocurrencies, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin exchange FTX signed a ten-year contract with the California Golden Bears baseball club to rename the Cal Memorial stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48161,"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":[1236,828],"class_list":["post-48160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ftx","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"7","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48160","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=48160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48162,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48160\/revisions\/48162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}