{"id":49066,"date":"2021-09-08T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49066"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:46:02","slug":"nba-star-stephen-curry-becomes-ambassador-for-the-ftx-cryptocurrency-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nba-star-stephen-curry-becomes-ambassador-for-the-ftx-cryptocurrency-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA star Stephen Curry becomes ambassador for the FTX cryptocurrency exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time NBA champion Stephen Curry has become an ambassador for the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FTX_Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FTX_Official<\/a> family <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenCurry30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephenCurry30<\/a> <3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ehCGjKYUFg\">https:\/\/t.co\/ehCGjKYUFg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SBF (@SBF_FTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBF_FTX\/status\/1435288074607542272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As part of a long-term partnership, Curry also became a shareholder of FTX Trading Limited.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased to collaborate with a company that demystifies the crypto industry and eliminates the intimidation factor for newcomers,&#8221; said the basketball player.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the press release, FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried noted that after meeting Curry he deemed the athlete perfectly suited for the collaboration with the trading platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the basketball player <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nba-star-stephen-curry-shows-interest-in-cryptocurrencies-community-recommends-bitcoin\">asked<\/a> Twitter users for advice about cryptocurrencies. The community recommended Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Curry plays for the Golden State Warriors and the United States national team. In late August he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/post\/115911\/nba-icon-stephen-curry-buys-bored-ape-nft-for-180000\">purchased<\/a> a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for 55 ETH ($180,000 at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Golden State Warriors <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nba-team-releases-series-of-nft-rings-and-ticket-stubs\">released a series of digital rings and ticket stubs<\/a> as non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, NFL quarterback Tom Brady <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nfl-star-tom-brady-becomes-investor-and-ambassador-of-the-crypto-exchange-ftx\">became a shareholder and ambassador of FTX<\/a>.<\/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>Three-time NBA champion Stephen Curry has become an ambassador for the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49067,"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-49066","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":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066","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=49066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49068,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions\/49068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}