{"id":54730,"date":"2021-12-15T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54730"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:50:25","slug":"ftx-us-inks-nft-partnership-with-nba-team-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ftx-us-inks-nft-partnership-with-nba-team-golden-state-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX.US inks NFT partnership with NBA team Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American arm of the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX and the NBA club Golden State Warriors agreed to launch an NFT on the platform&#8217;s marketplace in early 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">NFT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dub Nation?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DubNation<\/a>, say hello to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FTX_Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FTX_Official<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FTX will be the official cryptocurrency platform and NFT marketplace for the Warriors as part of this first-of-its-kind partnership <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FLjjU4cjR\">https:\/\/t.co\/6FLjjU4cjR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Golden State Warriors (@warriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1470781667740721168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In April the team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nba-team-releases-series-of-nft-rings-and-ticket-stubs\">released<\/a> a six-season series of digital NBA championship rings, as well as ticket stubs for the most memorable games as non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cThe FTX.US NFT platform will provide a gateway for Warriors fans to access the franchise&#8217;s exclusive collectible items\u201d<\/em>, \u2014 said Brett Harrison, president of the platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The FTX logo will be placed on the Santa Cruz Warriors&#8217; farm team playing surface, on the main team&#8217;s playing surface during NBA 2K games, and in broadcasts of matches of the Golden Guardians esports team, including the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), Super Smash Bros and World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement, FTX.US will also donate 1 BTC to three charitable organizations focused on educational equity.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the company signed a similar deal with the University of Kentucky men&#8217;s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>In June <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-signs-five-year-deal-with-major-league-baseball\">FTX signed a five-year contract<\/a> with MLB. Prior to that, the company obtained naming rights to the Miami Heat&#8217;s arena, which <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-to-secure-naming-rights-for-the-miami-heat-arena\">was renamed to FTX Arena through 2040<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later the crypto-derivatives exchange reached an agreement with the esports team TSM on its <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-to-launch-perpetual-contracts-on-mvis-products\">rebranding worth $210 million<\/a>. Later it announced plans to create <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-to-launch-nft-marketplace-focused-on-sports-and-entertainment\">an NFT marketplace focused on sports and entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In October FTX<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-buys-nfl-super-bowl-ad-to-promote-cryptocurrency\">acquired<\/a> advertising time during the broadcast of the NFL&#8217;s championship game (the Super Bowl).<\/p>\n<p>In December plans emerged to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-plans-to-push-its-valuation-to-32-billion-according-to-reports\">reach a valuation of $32 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American arm of the crypto-derivatives exchange FTX and the NBA&#8217;s Golden State Warriors agreed to launch an NFT on the platform&#8217;s marketplace in early 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54731,"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":[1236,1213,828],"class_list":["post-54730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ftx","tag-nft","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730","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=54730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54732,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54730\/revisions\/54732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}