Crypto buying and selling platform Voyager Digital has inked a take care of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League, or NWSL, aiming to supply gamers crypto schooling and monetary help.
In a Tuesday announcement, Voyager said it will change into the league’s first cryptocurrency brokerage associate as a part of a multi-year deal. The buying and selling platform mentioned a “vital quantity” of the funding would fund rostered gamers’ crypto accounts. There are anticipated to be 12 groups within the NWSL beginning in 2022, so as much as 312 gamers may benefit from the Voyager partnership.
“Voyager’s funding within the league is very revolutionary as a result of we have collectively designed the partnership to incorporate direct monetary assets for each certainly one of our gamers, in addition to schooling on the revolutionary modifications underway in digital belongings,” mentioned NWSL interim CEO Marla Messing.
As a part of the take care of Voyager, one participant from every of the NWSL’s groups will act as an envoy, attending instructional occasions and creating crypto-related content material. The alternate mentioned it will offer “key classes and instruments” aimed toward serving to gamers develop long-term monetary progress alternatives after their sports activities careers had ended.
Many crypto corporations and platforms have fashioned partnerships with sports activities organizations throughout the globe because the house expands and seemingly turns into extra worthwhile as a sponsor. Voyager is already the crypto brokerage and worldwide associate for the Dallas Mavericks basketball workforce following an October deal. Crypto derivatives alternate FTX additionally introduced it had change into the official sponsor of Main League Baseball in June.
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Based in 2018, Voyager Digital presently affords greater than 60 digital belongings for buying and selling on its cell app, which additionally contains companies corresponding to yield farming. In October, the platform introduced it had obtained a $75 million funding from crypto quantitative buying and selling agency and liquidity supplier Alameda Analysis.
