Steph Curry files trademark for the 'Curryverse' where players earn NFTs - Cointelegraph

National Basketball League (NBA) megastar Steph Curry looks acceptable to present his ain mentation of the Metaverse to NBA’s 650 cardinal fans — filing a “Curryverse” trademark exertion connected Oct. 26. 

If approved, the United States-based trademark application, filed by SC30 Inc. will assistance the four-time NBA champion exclusive rights for “entertainment services, namely, idiosyncratic and virtual and metaversal appearances.”

According to the filing, the “Curryverse” volition besides supply “online gaming services successful the quality of virtual worlds,” wherever players volition beryllium capable to gain some fungible and nonfungible tokens (NFTs), which volition beryllium capable to beryllium bought oregon sold astatine an “online marketplace.”

The exertion besides covers virtual covering and goods, concern absorption and concern services, charitable fundraising services, and bundle arsenic a work (Saas) featuring bundle platforms for designing, promoting, selling, and exchanging NFTs, among others. 

While much circumstantial details of the Curryverse haven’t been announced, the NBA star’s metaverse volition apt garner a batch of attraction fixed his 47 cardinal instrumentality basal connected Instagram and 17.1 cardinal followers connected Twitter.

While the Metaverse-related trademark appears to beryllium a archetypal for Curry, it decidedly isn’t his archetypal determination into Web3.

In August 2021, Curry archetypal became a portion of the NFT assemblage pursuing a $206,000 Bored Ape Yacht Club purchase.

The Golden State Warriors player’s liking for play besides led him to invest successful LinksDAO — a decentralized autonomous enactment (DAO) that aimed to physique the “world’s top play community.”

The NBA superstar has besides featured successful an FTX advertisement successful March arsenic portion of his ambassador relation with the fashionable crypto exchange.

NBA’s Miami Heat gets Web3 sponsor

Meanwhile, conscionable 8 days aft landing a multi-year concern with National Football League (NFL) squad New England Patriots, blockchain infrastructure steadfast Chain has conscionable go the authoritative “Web3/Blockchain infrastructure partner” of the Miami Heat.

Chain stated successful its Nov. 1 property merchandise that its concern volition purpose to “bridge the spread betwixt the sports manufacture and Web3 technology” by providing a suite of products and services that “address the complexities of wide blockchain management.”

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The concern volition besides spot Chain’s logo beryllium imprinted connected the Miami Heat player’s pre-game shooting shirt, with the blockchain solutions institution besides acceptable to prominently diagnostic connected the NBA team’s societal media platforms.

Things are HEATing up this fall. Chain is arrogant to denote a concern with the @MiamiHEAT arsenic their authoritative Web3/Blockchain infrastructure partner. Read more: https://t.co/7mgQVHPmAR pic.twitter.com/FhBeabooAp

In Mar. 2021, FTX entered a $135 cardinal concern with the Florida-based squad to secure naming rights to the Miami Heat’s 21,000 spot stadium until 2040 — which is present officially called FTX Arena.