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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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FTX buys name rights to Cal Memorial Stadium for 10 years in $17.5M deal

FTX has purchased naming rights to the Cal Memorial Stadium in its second major sports branding venture after buying the naming rights to the Miami Heat arena in March.

Crypto derivatives exchange, FTX, has purchased the naming rights to California University’s Cal Memorial Stadium with a view to introducing its own branding.

The Sam Bankman-Fried owned derivatives exchange is delving deeper into sports after signing a 10-year, $17.5 million naming rights deal with the university. 

The stadium's home team, the Cal Golden Bears, will now play their games on newly rebranded FTX Field this football season, according to Bloomberg. The $17.5 million will also be paid to the university in the form of crypto assets.

The deal is FTX's latest foray into sponsoring sports to drum up awareness of crypto.

In March, the North American division of the exchange, FTX.US, entered into a naming rights deal with the Miami Heat basketball team. The partnership saw the team’s home-stadium rebranded to FTX Arena.

The company is also the official crypto exchange of Major League Baseball (MLB). As part of the sponsorship deal, which is expected to last for at least 5 years, every MLB umpire will don an FTX patch on their uniform.

The Cal Memorial stadium is located in Alameda County, the namesake of Bankman-Fried’s trading firm, Alameda Research. 

Some of FTX’s executives also have long-standing ties to the Cal Golden Bears, with Chief Operating Officer Sina Nader having been a walk-on member of the Golden Bears when he was an undergraduate.

Related: FTX becomes official crypto sponsor of MLB

In June, seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bündchen partnered with FTX to promote crypto adoption.The deal saw Brady and Bündchen each take equity stakes in FTX and receive crypto.

On July 20, Cointelegraph reported that FTX smashed the crypto funding record with a $900 million raise to become an “exchange decacorn” — a company worth over $10 billion.

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