{"id":54530,"date":"2021-12-12T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54530"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:54:52","slug":"bbc-football-fans-spent-more-than-350-million-on-fan-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bbc-football-fans-spent-more-than-350-million-on-fan-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Football fans spent more than $350 million on fan tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of football clubs bought fan tokens for a total of more than $350 million. The report, an analytical study commissioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-59596267\">BBC News<\/a>, says so.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, 24 football clubs have launched fan tokens or are considering such a move. Among them are eight clubs that play in the English Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these clubs issue tokens through the Socios platform. The company said it sold tokens worth about $300 million through its own app.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular tokens were those of Lazio, Manchester City, Porto and Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say that the main aim of most buyers of such tokens is speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Socios has partnered with football clubs Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, West Ham United, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, Barcelona, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ac-milan-to-issue-fan-tokens\">\u00abMilan\u00bb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/inter-and-arsenal-to-issue-fan-tokens\">\u00abInter\u00bb and \u00abArsenal\u00bb<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/portugals-national-football-team-to-launch-fan-tokens\">the national teams of Portugal and Argentina<\/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 analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of football clubs bought fan tokens for a total of more than $350 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54531,"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":[167,828,596],"class_list":["post-54530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-research","tag-sports","tag-tokens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54530","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=54530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54532,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54530\/revisions\/54532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}