There are many tracks in the crypto market, such as public chain, AI, RWA, re-staking, DePin, GameFi, etc. There is usually a rotation phenomenon between the tracks, and each sector will have a period of strength, that is, when hot spots appear, a large amount of funds will flow in. For ordinary investors, it is necessary to observe the dynamics of these sector rotations and find opportunities to participate.
Looking ahead to future market conditions, the sports and football sectors should be our key focus.
From June to August, there will be a series of major sporting events, including the European Cup (June 14 to July 14), the America's Cup (June 20 to July 14) and the French Olympics (July 26 to August 11). Before and during the games, the relevant tracks will definitely attract market attention, which is a definite hot spot.
Based on the experience of past World Cup events, related currencies usually start to move 2 to 3 months before the game and peak on the eve of the game. Since there are multiple events this time, the hype cycle is expected to be longer and not just one round. It is not too late to build some positions now.
In addition, even within the same track, funds will flow. There is a significant difference between the choice of large funds and small funds. Usually large funds will give priority to targets that are listed on platforms such as Binance and Upbit and have good liquidity. For small funds, it may be more appropriate to explore some early new projects to obtain excess returns.
What I want to share today is a new project with great potential, "World League Live"
In the current era of rapid development of social media and short video content, when people's attention is becoming increasingly fragmented, how to attract fans' attention, expand brand awareness, and how to keep IP popular in the hearts of fans has become an important issue.
World League Live was born in such a context.
Can AI+AR+sports become a hot dark horse?
World League Live aims to use AI (artificial intelligence) and AR (augmented reality) to build a light-hearted and enjoyable gamified interactive platform for idol stars, influential talents, well-known IP owners and their fans through a mixed gaming experience and social media live broadcast.
By cooperating with well-known clubs and big IPs, we innovate in games and easy-to-share social content creation to meet the dynamic interaction needs of fans with their favorite IPs, stars, etc., while also helping the brand value of these big IPs and star clubs to achieve sustainable development in a diversified manner.
World League Live has launched its first football-themed game (WLL Football), which is a free mobile game. Whether you are a mobile game player, football enthusiast or Web3 user, you can join the game online anytime, anywhere for free.
The game draws on the characteristics of Super Mario Striker and Fighting Stars FC. It combines the playability of traditional games with the economic models of Web2 and Web3. With micro-transactions, brand sponsorship in the form of "Play with the Stars" social games, tradable skins and rewarded video ads, different types of users can get the benefits they want in the game. In addition to experiencing the fun of the game, players also have the opportunity to obtain encrypted assets and enjoy the dividends brought by the development of the entire project ecosystem.
Impressive team and partner lineup
According to relevant reports, World League Live has obtained investments from other well-known funds in the industry, such as the Piero Foundation, Polygon Fund, and YGG United Ventures, and has maintained long-term cooperation with major companies such as iDreamSky, T-Mobile, and Nvidia.
Cooperation with other Web3 sports projects is also in full swing, such as Chiliz. As a sports and entertainment blockchain financial technology provider, many clubs and will choose to issue fan coins on Chiliz. In the future, Chiliz will help World League Live contact more clubs and star resources, and World League Live will help Chiliz and other partners improve user stickiness and complete commercial empowerment through its own products and services.
World League Live is currently in talks with more than 170 top teams and clubs around the world about cooperation. The most famous players who have cooperated include Alessandro Piero, who has more than 14 million fans on the Internet, and social media star Arat Hosseini, who has 7 million fans on the Internet. Some other stars have already confirmed their participation, but the details will be announced later.
In addition, the project team has solid technical strength and work experience in fields such as augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), user interaction and investment.
The founder has founded a company focusing on the immersive and augmented reality industry in San Francisco since 2016. Due to its leading position in the field of augmented reality technology, it was invited to become a resident mentor at TechStar, one of the top startup incubators in the United States.
The head of operations is a sociologist who helped Father.IO (another AR game developed by the project's publisher) reach over 1 million daily active users.
The product manager has more than 20 years of experience in user interaction design. He was responsible for the user interaction design of an e-commerce travel platform with an annual revenue of 140 million yuan and UnaDonna.it, a famous Italian actress' blog.
The head of Web3 worked at Rocket Internet, a large investment incubator, and later moved to the Media Investment Department in the United Arab Emirates, focusing on startups in the Middle East and North African markets.
Easy-to-play game mode
As of early April 2024, World League Live has over 600,000 downloads and 10 million minutes of user game time on Apple and Google stores. The gameplay is also very simple, and there are currently two modes open, online games and "Play with the Stars".
Online means playing with other players through the system matching mechanism. The gameplay is similar to the football game on FC in the past. The side that scores more goals within the specified time wins. There are no complicated mechanisms in the game, only passing, intercepting and shooting. Shooting can release a big move by gathering energy so that the opponent's goalkeeper cannot defend.
"Play with the Stars" is similar to a model where stars play games with you. Unlike the traditional mode of playing games for money, the stars play games with you and other players can see your interaction. This to a certain extent also narrows the distance between the stars and the fans, allowing fans to feel a real, flesh-and-blood idol.
Games like the long and difficult live football games of the past are no longer suitable for today's players. Each game of World League Live lasts only a few minutes, which is also in line with people's fragmented time nowadays. They can play one or two games on their mobile phones in their spare time.
Combining gaming experience and play-to-earn model
World League Live also has certain play-and-earn attributes. You can earn gold coins by playing games every day. In addition to upgrading your team's attributes, gold coins can also be exchanged for ecological governance tokens WLP according to certain rules in the future. Invite friends, win 5 games every day, and enter the top 32 to get power points, and double the gold coins you get.
For Web2 game players, they can improve the attributes of their team to get a more powerful gaming experience. For Web3 players, they can get rewards by "earning gold" in the game, while taking into account the needs of different groups.
NFT is no stranger to Web3 users. Skins in general games are presented in the form of NFTs in Web3 games. The NFTs launched by World League Live are both skins and proof of rights, as well as "golden shovels" for playing and earning money.
Previously, the project has launched the Piero co-branded NFT, and now has launched the "Genesis Golden Ball NFT". Holding NFT can obtain multiple rights and interests, such as airdrops before WLP is listed, long-term airdrops of other benefits in the ecosystem, higher reward weighting, staking rewards, whitelists and many other benefits.
Currently, the Genesis Golden Ball NFT is sold out.
Summarize
The ambitions of the World League Live team are far from limited to this. In addition to using mobile football games as a starting point to connect stars and fans, and providing a series of comprehensive landing services for some of the top NFTs and star NFTs circulating in the market; according to the project's development plan, in the future, World League Live will continue to expand its territory to other fields such as basketball, rugby, music, and entertainment, and actively incubate some Web3 native sports IPs.
The sports sector (major events) is a track with strong cycles and clear forward-looking layout. With the European Cup and the Olympics approaching, it is not too late to lay out the sports track. We also hope that World League Live's long-term vision of building a sports metaverse can become a reality.
*This article is only a display of high-quality projects and does not constitute investment advice
