The Grape Protocol Impact on Decentralized Football Academy [DFA]
We are super excited to be writing this piece, arguably, this is the best year of the Decentralized Football Academy (DFA) under the influence of the Grape Protocol, a project built on the Solana Blockchain. The only football academy on the Blockchain has left many jaws open with unimaginable achievements, it’s a great surreal!!!
The Grape Protocol has been a blessing to the Decentralized Football Academy, it’s a privilege to be supported by the amazing project. Before we continue, we would love to thank Mr. Dean for the love and support of DFA, we are super grateful for all the care and huge support.
About Grape
Grape is a community project, originally built as a social tool to link ownership of social accounts (Discord/Twitter) to SPL (Solana Program Library) Tokens. Grape Tool is used in over 300K verified wallets across Discord Servers. There are now many projects with this similar social tool coined by the Grape Community. With the commitment and hard work of the community, Grape has built a non-custodial NFT Marketplace, https://grape.art. The Grape Protocol has the most active DAO and SubDAO members of all Solana projects, with a ton of talented skilled members from Designers, Videographers, Writers, Animators, Hosts, AMAs, etc. The Grape Protocol aims for decentralization, open-source, and scalability, and it’s building a complete set of tools for organizing a DAO/Tokenized community that is not limited to Discord and Verification. The Grape tool comprises about 500k users, it’s a long-term project building for Web3. The Grape Protocol has more but let’s keep it short here, if you want to look into the amazing Grape community, visit https://grapes.network, read the Whitepaper, follow their Twitter handle, and join the Discord community. The Discord is where you will see most of the magic!
DFA Journey with Grape Protocol
Grape donated some money to us to purchase gear for the academy around June last year, 2021. The Gear has improved our training activities and we are proud to say that we have some of the best footballers with a great future. DFA was also added to the part of the Community Creator with a monthly emission of Grape.
A few months after the Gear donation. Mr. Barndog of Grape Protocol kick-started a gaming initiative for the DFA team which led to the first Phone and STEPN NFT donation and further grants of 5K USDC. Part of the funds was used to purchase 4 additional Phones and Armbands. The first game Mr. Barndog introduced to DFA was STEPN (A move-2-earn game built on the Solana blockchain), with the help and guidance from him, we did a superb video with one of the academy boys explaining STEPN, and with the influence of Mr. Barndog, the STEPN Team donated 5 additional NFTs. That was a total of 6 Sneaker NFTs to get started with the game. We are super grateful to the STEPN team for the NFT donations.
STEPN is a life-changing game and opportunity for the DFA, it’s a coincidence that the game activity is part of what we do initially without reward, nothing feels better to do what you love and get paid for it. With the rewards from STEPN, we’ve managed to grow the 6 Sneaker NFTs to 15, that’s 3 NFTs on each of the 5 phones. With STEPN rewards, we can do more than we thought because the game became a huge success after its launch. We are very sure that you would have likely heard of STEPN, if not check it out https://stepn.com
After the purchase of the 5 phones in the proposal by Mr. Barndog, the leftover 3K USDC was allocated to purchase necessary gear for the DFA team and it’s been used accordingly, we will show you what we did and acquired with the $3K and STEPN rewards.
Soccer Gear
We made Three (3) Jerseys; The Home Kits, Away Kits, and Training Kits of 25 pieces each with Goalkeeper kits.
We extended the help we’ve received from Grape to another team with a poor jersey and made a surprise for the team by buying them a new set of jerseys and a ball.
One of the biggest achievements is changing our Bamboo posts to Standard Goal Posts. We don’t only change the Big Posts but also made Small Posts for training.
We made a local shelter where people can sit and watch matches or relax, where players can change their kits or relax, and where people can hide from raining and scorching sun.
We acquired 5 Imported Poles to improve our training activity and quality.
We purchased Balls. There are about 50 balls of different qualities and so far we’ve given out 7 balls to other teams around us.
We purchased 2 Keeper Gloves for our Goalkeepers.
We purchased 36 Black Hose for the boys.
We purchased 4 Whistles for the training and matches.
We bought multiple Captain Bands in addition to the ones we have.
We bought Hurdle Cones and a set of small Cones. These big cones have holes and pipes to use for many training drills.
Photo of the Small Cones in a pack.
We bought 6 Tennis Balls 🎾 for reaction drills and Goalkeeper Reflex Training.
We bought two Stop Watches.
We were able to reward the past and present contributors of DFA including the young footballers.
We have done more than what we ever thought of last year, it’s just like a dream or fantasy. We are super grateful to the entire Grape Community, all this would not be possible without The Grape Protocol. We are an inspiration to many teams, here is one of them, NICHIN FC
💥 VIDEOS
Watch the Biggest DFA Gear Unveiling
Watch The Changes to DFA Football Pitch, New Gear, and Soccer Training (The Grape Effect)
Watch DFA Donations to other Projects
Our words cannot express how we feel, words fail us to appreciate the people of Grape and STEPN. Special mentions and a big shout-out to Mr. Dean and Mr. Barndog and the wonderful Grape CCs, Designers, and Videographers. Thanks to everyone for the love on DFA, we pray to God to bless you more and grant you all your heart desires 🙏
THANK YOU GRAPE 🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️
Websites 💎
🔌 GRAPE: https://grapes.network
🎨 GRAPE NFT: https://grape.art
🏃♂️ STEPN: https://stepn.com
📃 BLOG: https://hive.blog/@dfacademy
You can also read this article on Hive and Blurt!!!
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