DraftKings Marketplace adds NFTs of top young baseball players

DraftKings has further expanded its NFT offer in a partnership with Metabilia

DraftKings has farther expanded its NFT bid inward a partnership with Metabilia. Their coaction will see it provide tokens for the sports betting brand’s NFT service, DraftKings Marketplace.

Beginning today, Metabilia testament give up several NFTs to DraftKings Marketplace as parting of a young “Membership” collection.

This baseball-focused collecting testament “chronicle the careers of whirligig youth players,” including Vladimir Guerrero Jr, Ronald Acuña Jr, Shane Bieber, Wander Franco, Joe Musgrove and Fernando Tatís Jr.

“At Metabilia, we are focused on delivering NFT collectable programmes that present high-quality benefits for the long term, and our Membership NFT programmes permit fans to show up their reinforcement for a offspring athlete and live a part of his or her journey,” remarked Joseph A. De Perio, Metabilia’s CEO.

“As portion of the strategical relationship, DraftKings Marketplace testament live the sole(a) distributer of veritable Metabilia NFTs that also unified historical pieces of game-used collectibles, vocation achievements and more.”

DraftKings Marketplace went unrecorded last Aug inward a business deal with Tom Brady’s Autograph platform. Since then, the sports betting trademark has added NFTs from additional sports stars, including baseball game fable Derek Jeter.

Beth Beiriger, Senior Vice President of Product Operations for DraftKings Marketplace, said: “The kinship for sports collectibles continues to uprise inward the digital space, and DraftKings Marketplace is committed to edifice a fan-first destination that captures this ontogeny and unlocks unexampled experiences.

“Metabilia brings a riches of capabilities inwards sports memorabilia and this collaborationism represents our modish efforts to immerse fans and form passionate communities around emerging star players.”