Bridging Web3 & Football: The 2022 FIFA World Cup
Name a better game than the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final! What a breathtaking win for Argentina.
While the World Cup is one of the most widely viewed and followed sporting events in the world, it is now a huge fiesta in Web3 as well. Numerous Web3 projects hosted FIFA related campaigns during the one-month play-out all the way from the Group Stage to the Final. Not only can you watch the games on TV, but also participate and support your favorite teams and players in Web3.
Now that the 2022 World Cup has come to an end in Qatar, let’s take a tour in Web3 and walk through all the awesome World Cup campaigns from Binance, Bitget, and 10 others that were powered by Galxe. From claiming your favorite team NFTs to placing bets on match outcomes, and even entering the metaverse with a GalxeOAT wristband, it’s always a win in Web3!
Binance Football Fever
Binance Fan Token put out $1 million worth of rewards and exclusive prizes to celebrate the 2022 World Cup! Football fans were invited to enter daily challenges and predict the outcomes of matches, and you could win different tiers of NFTs by guessing the correct score, the winning team, or simply participating.
Bitget x Messi
This football season, Bitget is partnering with the GOAT from the 2022 World Cup winning team — Lionel Messi! While making impressive moves on the field, Messi teamed up with Bitget to explore uncharted territories of Web3, cryptocurrency and of course…football.
You can still participate in this campaign and win $110K Airdrops!
BNB Chain Football Fiesta
BNB Chain partnered with 27 projects to bring you the biggest FIFA World Cup related campaign this year! Since it started on November 1st, 120,000 Glory Passes were minted on Galxe and distributed among BNB Chain communities. Users could claim this exclusive Pass after completing specific tasks set by the participating projects. Glory Pass holders participated in over 50 open activities and 20 exclusive activities to cast Football Fiesta match predictions and win mystery box rewards from Binance’s $500K prize pool!
PancakeSwap Football Fest
PancakeSwap designed an engaging Football Fest with 3 challenges for football fans to win a total of $10K GAL token and digital collectibles. Starting from the Knockout Stage, you were invited to predict the winner of each knockout match, the FIFA World Cup champion, and the Golden Ball winner (the best player). With each correct prediction, you would be eligible to win $GAL tokens for that challenge!
Hakka World Cup
Hakka Finance invited football fans to predict which 16 teams will pass the Group Stage on Hakka Intelligence. On Galxe, you could claim 16 NFTs corresponding to the teams you root for, and if every single team NFT you claimed made it to the Knockout Stage, you made it to share a total prize pool of 100K HAKKA tokens. Over 130K NFTs were minted before the Group Stage started!
Nawarat x P12 Web3 World Cup
A Web3 World Cup spectacular was produced by Nawarat and Project Twelve. By getting the exclusive wristbands on Galxe, you could participate in a series of different activities, predict the top 16 teams, top 8, the champion, and win Magic Boxes. In the boxes were NFTs such as Fantasy Sneakers, designed by the renowned French design icon Jacqueline Bourgeois.
TopGoal Football Festival
Gamifying the World Cup experience, TopGoal released Season 1 of TopManager. Bridging GameFi and football, TopGoal invited users to play the TopManager game, trade player cards, and earn lucrative token prizes! All Galxe Passport holders were given 3 TopGoal All-Star trial cards to get started.
You can still participate in this campaign before it ends on Dec.30th.
BurgerCities World Cup Discussion Event
What’s fun watching the game alone? BurgerCities welcomed all participants to join a World Cup Carnival and OAT Campaign on Galxe. There was a FIFA-dedicated channel on BurgerCities’ Discord for soccer fans to discuss the matches, shout out to their favorite teams, and earn rewards!
Illuminate/22 Cup by Moonbeam
This tournament invited football fans from around the world to compete in challenges from applications and teams on the Moonbeam Network. If you completed the tasks from each team, you would advance to the finals and be awarded with the project’s very own exclusive Moonbeam jersey NFT.
imToken 2022 World Cup
Are you a true football fan? imToken asked you to prove it by participating in the exclusive challenge. With teams divided into 8 groups, each wallet got 8 chances to predict the winner team. If the prediction came true, the wallet would become eligible to claim the NFT on Galxe.
Ancient8 World Cup Playground
Vote for your favorite team to win from a prize pool worth 20K USDC from Ancient8. Rewards were evenly and automatically distributed to everyone who made winning picks in the Round of 16. And exclusive prizes for Galxe Astronauts! If you were one of the 2000 participants who minted the exclusive “Ancient8 World Cup Playground OAT”, there was a chance you could win an additional $2500 BUSD!
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