NEW DELHI: Cricket-based digital collectibles platform Rario on Monday announced a partnership with Howzat Legends League Cricket (LLC).
The inaugural edition of the league, comprising former international cricket stars, is scheduled to be played from 20-29 January at Muscat, Oman.
The Rario platform lets cricket fans collect and trade licensed cricket moments in the blockchain as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Separately, it announced a tie up with Afghan spin bowler Rashid Khan and Indian batting duo Ruturaj Gaikwad and Prithvi Shaw. The young trio will join the likes of Virender Sehwag, Rishabh Pant, AB de Villiers, and Zaheer Khan as its ambassadors. Rario now has exclusive rights to mint officially licensed NFTs of the three cricketers in the form of fan favourite images or video clips from their iconic on-field cricketing moments.
It also has partnerships with other international cricket leagues like the Caribbean Premier League, and the Lanka Premier League.
LLC recently announced its broadcast partnership with Sony Pictures Network. SPN will live telecast all the matches of the league to be played this month on its channels as well as livestream the matches on SPN’s OTT platform.
The first season of LLC will have former cricketers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, England, among other cricket nations divided into three teams representing India, Asia and rest of the world.
As per LiveMint, DappRadar, which follows sales across multiple blockchains, has said NFT volumes bought and traded were just under $2.5 billion for the first half of 2021.
NonFungible.com said the figure stood at $1.3 billion, excluding around $8 billion of “DeFi” (decentralised finance) NFTs.
