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Fantasy Soccer NFT App Scores SoftBank Investment

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Shai Oster
· · Source: Reuters

SoftBank led a $680 million investment into Paris-based fantasy soccer startup Sorare, in which users buy digital non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, representing the cards of players they want on their team. The investment valued the company at $4.3 billion. It was founded in 2018. Reuters said the site is the largest sports NFT platform by sales volume, citing market data from NonFungible.com. ...

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