{"id":82994,"date":"2023-08-14T11:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82994"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:23:02","slug":"fc-barcelona-secures-e120-million-for-web3-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/fc-barcelona-secures-e120-million-for-web3-development\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona secures \u20ac120 million for Web3 development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish football club FC Barcelona <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/news\/3626270\/fc-barcelona-official-announcement\">received \u20ac120 million<\/a> (~$132 million) in investments from Liberto Football Finance AG and Nipa Captial BV for the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is directed to Barca Vision, the division tasked with expanding the organisation into the crypto industry, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">non-fungible tokens<\/a> sector.<\/p>\n<p>The funds were secured against collateral, for which the company sold 29.5% of its stake in the holding company Birdgeburd Invest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn recent years we have achieved significant progress in the digital ecosystem, turning our assets into a creative hub that elevates the FC Barcelona brand to a unique global level,\u201d said club president Joan Laporta.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Representatives said they will continue to collaborate with platforms<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chiliz-operator-of-the-socios-platform-invested-100m-in-fc-barcelonas-metaverse\">Socios<\/a> and Orpheus.<\/p>\n<p>The club also entered into a partnership with Mountain &#038; Co. I Acquisition, focused on the European media and technology sector.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement, Barcelona will unite its social divisions under the Barca Media brand, which will become an important source of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the football club decided to issue fan tokens. Its coins were also issued by Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, West Ham United and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, the president of Barcelona 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish football club FC Barcelona received \u20ac120 million (~$132 million) in investments from Liberto Football Finance AG and Nipa Captial BV for the development of Web3 initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82995,"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":[828,1133,1110],"class_list":["post-82994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-sports","tag-venture-investments","tag-web-3-0"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82994","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=82994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82996,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82994\/revisions\/82996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}