Base On-Chain Sports Prediction Game, Football.fun, Gains Massive Popularity and Grows More Than 10X

Football.fun, a new on-chain fantasy prediction football game, has gone viral after its launch on the Base platform, gaining massive attention from users. Football.fun has caught the attention of football and crypto enthusiasts for its innovative fusion of football fandom, player ownership, and profitable gameplay.

Why There is So Much Hype Around Football.fun

Football.fun is an on-chain fantasy sports platform that is deployed on the Ethereum layer-2 network, Base. The game now features the best players in the five major European leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1).

Like other fantasy football games, Football.fun lets players buy and trade players from different top leagues to build their squads. However, Football.fun takes a different route, allowing players to buy shares in footballers.

The value of the footballer cards they choose to invest in can increase or decrease based on the real-life performance of that footballer. For example, the value of Lamine Yamal's card can increase based on performance measurements like goals or assists and saves (for goalkeepers). 

On the flip side, when these players make mistakes like scoring an own goal or getting a red card, their valuations can be reduced, affecting the shares a Football.com player has invested. The player cards in Football.com operate like crypto tokens, allowing users to speculate on their future value. 

This means that you can buy a player card when it's low, expecting their real-life on-pitch performances to increase their valuation in Football.com. You can then sell these cards when the value is high, like popular crypto assets, NFTs, or meme coins.

This has opened up the opportunity for investors to make a profit from their predictions on the performances of Football.fun. For example, one player on X, 852luk, claimed that he made a profit of $200,000 within less than 1 day. His shares grew from $100,000 to $200,000 in five hours. Then 11 hours later, his shares in players in Football.fun had grown to $300,000.

            How Shares on Football.com Works

You can acquire shares needed to invest in a player on Football.com in two different ways. You can either use Gold (GOLD), the Football.fun market currency that is backed 1:1 with stablecoin USDC, or through game packs that can be acquired with tournament points (TP). You can earn TP through playing in biweekly fantasy contests on football. It's fun.

Trading Packs on the platform offer shares in four random soccer players. They also come in three different tiers and price groups. The lowest tier of pack offers between 8-14 shares of players, while the highest pack offers between 285-535 shares for 2,000 TP.

Since shares are only issued through the packs or through the open market, the market supply and demand for Football.fun determine the prices of each player entirely. 

Popular players such as Yamal and Mbappe cost 2.01 GOLD and 1.92 GOLD, respectively (or $2.01 and $1.92 GOLD, respectively). Stakes in less established or skilled players can be obtained as low as $0.02.

Football.fun Market Cap Jumps 10x in Two Weeks

Within only two weeks since the launch of Football.fun, the market cap of the player tokens in the platform has soared from $6 million to more than $65 million. Per data from Dune Analytics, Football.fun has attracted deposits of over $18.4 million in the last two weeks.

The platform has attracted over 13,000 active wallets since its launch, driven by its seamless gameplay and speculative nature. With such high user interest, the trading volumes of Football.fun shot up to approximately $39 million per day.

Final Thoughts

Football.fun is an excellent example of how blockchain technology can be used to enhance user experience, ownership, and monetization in gaming. It allows users to create, contend, and earn on their football expertise in a decentralized space.

You can be a football fan, a crypto enthusiast, or an NFT collector, but Football.fun provides a fun set to play with football in a way that you have never experienced.