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Voyager Digital will be crypto brokerage partner for National Women’s Soccer League

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Crypto buying and selling platform Voyager Digital has inked a take care of the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League, or NWSL, aiming to supply gamers crypto schooling and monetary help.

In a Tuesday announcement, Voyager stated it will turn into the league’s first cryptocurrency brokerage accomplice as a part of a multi-year deal. The buying and selling platform stated a “vital quantity” of the funding would fund rostered gamers’ crypto accounts. There are anticipated to be 12 groups within the NWSL beginning in 2022, so as much as 312 gamers may benefit from the Voyager partnership.

“Voyager’s funding within the league is particularly revolutionary as a result of we have collectively designed the partnership to incorporate direct monetary assets for each one in every of our gamers, in addition to schooling on the revolutionary adjustments underway in digital property,” stated NWSL interim CEO Marla Messing.

Soccer ball. Supply: Pexels

As a part of the take care of Voyager, one participant from every of the NWSL’s groups will act as an envoy, attending instructional occasions and creating crypto-related content material. The change stated it will offer “key classes and instruments” aimed toward serving to gamers develop long-term monetary development alternatives after their sports activities careers had ended.

Many crypto firms and platforms have fashioned partnerships with sports activities organizations throughout the globe because the house expands and seemingly turns into extra worthwhile as a sponsor. Voyager is already the crypto brokerage and worldwide accomplice for the Dallas Mavericks basketball staff following an October deal. Crypto derivatives change FTX additionally introduced it had turn into the official sponsor of Main League Baseball in June.

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Based in 2018, Voyager Digital presently provides greater than 60 digital property for buying and selling on its cell app, which additionally consists of providers reminiscent of yield farming. In October, the platform introduced it had obtained a $75 million funding from crypto quantitative buying and selling agency and liquidity supplier Alameda Analysis.