The NBA champion, Tristan Thompson, is being associated with the improbable CEO Herman Narula and the co -founder Hadi Teherange to launch a new web3 experience designed to reinvent the basketball fandom for the digital era.
The project, called Basketball.fun, will debut in October before the NBA season and will try to gamify the way in which fans interact with players and games, Thompson announced.
It has developed in Somnia, a layer 1 block chain that was directed earlier this month, already measuring billions of dollars in negotiation volume in its first two weeks.
“This is how we experience moments together, it’s not just about basketball,” Tristan Thompson said in a press release. “We are creating something for fans who live beyond the game, where their presence, passion and game really matter.”
Tokenized NBA players
Unlike traditional fantasy sports or fans, the platform will tokenize NBA players with values ​​that fluctuate in real time according to feeling and performance. Fans can gather the lists, speculate on the rise of talent and gain rewards linked to their predictions and commitment.
“The way in which fans value and perceive players should be different from the owners and news networks,” Teherange said in an interview with Coindesk. “We are trying to return power to the fanatic, not only to predict who believe it is great, but to gain incentives.
Teherange emphasized that the application will not be launched with a native token, distancing projects as partners that depend on Token Price. Instead, players will have a value in the application that reflects the feeling of fans and the results of the game.
Why not soland?
When asked why the team decided to build on Somnia instead of more established chains such as Solana or Avalanche, Teherany pointed out both relationships and philosophy.
“Everything in this industry comes from authentic relations,” he said. “When we met Herman Narula, it was a vision alignment. He is not pursuing the exaggeration of short -term tokens, but is committed to building sports and entertainment in the long -term chain. That gave us confidence that this would not only be valued in market speculation.”
The decision was also produced after the lessons learned from a previous project, Tracyai, which Teherange said he became too dependent on the performance of the Token. This time, the approach focuses on infrastructure, gamification and sustainability.
The technical advantage of somnia
Somnia was launched on September 2, after a six -month network that processed more than 10 billion transactions and incorporated 118 million wallets. Backed by Metaverse Company with headquarters in the unlikely United Kingdom, the network is positioning itself as the fastest compatible chain, which claims to handle more than one million transactions per second with the Subsecond purpose.
In the launch, Somnia incorporated 60 validators, including Google Cloud, and has been integrated with protocols such as Layerzero, Securence and Thirdweb. His native token, Somi, has almost doubled its value from the launch and is already processing billions in daily volume.
For Teherange, Somnia’s traction adds credibility: “They have done billions in daily volume, bigger than some of the main exchanges. That is a testimony of what they are building, and what we are building on top.”
Road to notice
The first important revelation of the project is scheduled for the Blockchain week in Korea, where Thompson will share his vision with Narula and Teherange. The attendees of Somnia House, the Baddies Secretary Secondary event in Seoul on September 23, will see the application and the road map early.
“We want this to be as accessible as possible,” said Teherange. “The blockchain layer should feel invisible. Whether it is a crypto native or simply a basketball fan, you can join, play and help define the narrative of sport.”
