NHL Launching a Hockey Collectibles NFT Marketplace
The National Hockey League has big NFT plans, and it’s ready to share most of them with the whole world.
The NHL, along with its Alumni Association and Players’ Association, announced on Thursday that it has teamed up with NFT platform Sweet to create a unique NFT marketplace and collections of NFTs, which are unique blockchain tokens that show ownership.
In an interview with Decrypt, David Lehanski, the league’s executive vice president of business development and innovation, said that the NHL’s marketplace will be somewhere between a full-fledged NFT trading platform and a site that gives out NFT drops for a limited time.
The NHL wants to give fans a little bit of both by building an NFT marketplace with exclusive drops. The NHL’s Sweet marketplace should be up and running by October, just in time for the 2022-2023 season.
But there’s also a bit of gaming going on here. Lehanski told Decrypt that the NHL wants to make NFTs more like games by adding “questing and c…
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