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The NCAA made $1.15 billion in revenue during 2021, showing just how ingrained college sports is into our culture. While that’s a formidable chunk of change, college athletes couldn’t claim a piece of the pie for years, despite creating most of the value. Luckily, the NCAA has changed its rules, and college athletes can pursue financial freedom through name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals.

Chris Pantoya, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Strategy at Fan Controlled Sports + Entertainment sees a new future for sports, where fans have the power to call plays, sub players and more. Their NFT extension, Ballerz Collective, aims to give fans the ability to do even more by buying tokens that allow them to get real-world access and VIP experiences, additional game play power and more. We spoke to her about her vision for Web3 and its potential to reshape fandom.

Music NFTs are opening a whole new world of monetization for businesses and brands. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) allow music creators and collectible sellers complete control over the sale of their music and assets, offering higher returns and better security than traditional methods.

Music plays an important role in life, underscoring our highest highs and lowest lows. The personal connections that fans create with their favorite music may even form the basis of their cultural identity — and now that connection can go deeper. Bands and other music businesses can offer their own NFTs to connect with their fans, leveraging digital marketplaces to create recurring revenue streams. No matter how an organization chooses to make its foray into the NFT music world, it all starts with finding the best NFT marketplace for music to fit its needs.

Bradley Tusk is the CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highly regulated industries. Tusk Venture Partners specifically invests in early-stage consumer technology startups operating in heavily regulated markets across North America, which makes perfect sense as to why they invested in Dibbs. Despite not owning a single NFT, Tusk answers questions about how we got him onboard and what regulation ideally looks like for him in Web3. 

Especially in this rapidly growing industry, we don’t want you left behind. Below is a comprehensive list of Web3-related jargon and their definitions that crypto bros and fintech fiends have created that you should know to make Web3 as easy to understand as A-B-C.

Over the next few days (and weeks!) you’ll start to see what we’ve been hard at work on.

Physical-backed NFTs are increasingly capturing the attention of investors and businesses, offering a novel approach to ownership that merges the tangible world with the digital.

Monetizing one’s property and collectibles with NFT tokenization can be lucrative, but it requires more than the blockchain. Since the value of each token depends on a physical asset, NFT marketplaces must guarantee that each item is authentic and its condition will not degrade over time. For these reasons, appraisal and vaulting solutions have become essential components of NFT trading.

As the world continues its digital shift, asset tokenization is allowing fans to bring their physical memorabilia into the electronic world. Now, businesses can help with the transition while making money along the way, tokenizing their own assets as physical backed NFT collectibles. Here’s a complete breakdown of how the tokenization of assets works, the benefits it brings, and how organizations can get involved.