{"id":65224,"date":"2022-08-02T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65224"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:47:37","slug":"chiliz-operator-of-the-socios-platform-invested-100m-in-fc-barcelonas-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/chiliz-operator-of-the-socios-platform-invested-100m-in-fc-barcelonas-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiliz, operator of the Socios platform, invested $100m in FC Barcelona&#8217;s metaverse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chiliz, owner of the Socios platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/socios\/fc-barcelona-to-accelerate-web3-strategy-as-socios-com-invests-100m-in-barca-studios-e6acc0b1b0c7\">invested<\/a> $100m in NFTs and FC Barcelona&#8217;s metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>It acquired 24.5% of Bar\u00e7a Studios, the Spanish football giant&#8217;s digital-content arm.<\/p>\n<p>According to Socios representatives, the deal is aimed at developing <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-ecosystem, including new products and features.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Barcelona decided to issue fan tokens.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, the club announced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/barca-president-outlines-plan-to-launch-its-own-cryptocurrency\">plans to create its own cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, Chiliz launched <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/socios-platform-operator-launches-testnet-for-chiliz-chain-2-0\">the Chiliz Chain 2.0 testnet<\/a>, developed in collaboration with the Ankr project.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiliz, owner of the Socios platform, invested $100m in NFTs and FC Barcelona&#8217;s metaverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,1353,1213,2063,741],"class_list":["post-65224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-investments","tag-metaverses","tag-nft","tag-socios","tag-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65226,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65224\/revisions\/65226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}