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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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Expanding ecosystem and LedgerX acquisition send FTX Token (FTT) to a new ATH

FTT price soared to a new all-time high after FTX exchange added LedgerX to its ever-expanding list of acquisitions and partnerships.

Real-world adoption and brand awareness are one of the best ways for a blockchain project to increase its value and attract new users to users to its ecosystem. 

One project that has seen massive growth throughout 2021 thanks to its increasing public exposure and exciting protocol launches and partnerships is FTX, a crypto-derivatives trading platform founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after hitting a low near $50 on Aug. 31, the price of FTT catapulted 42% higher to a new all-time high at $66.50 on Sep. 1 as its 24-hour trading volume increased by 200% to $1.675 billion.

FTT/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView

The sudden burst in momentum came following the Aug. 31 announcement that FTX US, the United States-based arm of the exchange, would be acquiring  LedgerX, a fully licensed, U.S.-based options and futures trading platform.

Through this acquisition, the company will now be able to offer regulated crypto futures and options trading to the US market.

FTX has had a busy year of partnerships and publicity generating moves such as purchasing the naming rights for several stadiums and becoming the official crypto exchange sponsor of Major League Baseball, but many feel that this is the biggest development to date for the platform because it gives FTX US a unique product in the US marketplace.

Related: FTX crypto exchange seals $210M naming rights deal for esports behemoth TSM

And just to show that it also has an ear on the pulse of the cryptocurrency community, FTX also recently announced plans to list the up and coming Star Atlas gaming metaverse and NFT ecosystems, a highly anticipated project that looks to capture the surging momentum of the NFT and gaming sectors.

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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