WAGMI United DAO Completes Acquisition of Crawley Town Football Club
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The crypto sports brand WAGMI United has acquired Crawley Town Football Club, but the “pioneering purchase” is already proving to be controversial among its fans.
They Shoot, They Score!
WAGMI United is now the first cryptocurrency company to own a football club after it announced the acquisition of the Crawley Town Football Club, based in West Sussex, England, via a press release. WAGMI – which stands for “We’re All Gonna Make It” – is a new brand that exists between the “intersection of crypto and sports”. WAGMI United last year failed in its takeover bid of another English club, Yorkshire’s Bradford City, which has aimed to rely on NFTs as an ownership model.
The group now says it wants to “empower fans to take a personal stake in telling their team’s story and shaping its future” at Crawley. Ziya Eren, the club’s chairman and owner, and chief executive Erdem Konyar are set to exit the board, with WAGMI co-founder Preston Johnson and Eben Smith taking over.The pair say they want to harness the power of Web3 to expand the club’s global fanbase and open up new revenue streams, such as selling NFTs that give “fans” influence over the way the club operates.
DAOs Try to Take Over Sport
This is not the first time a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) has tried to buy a sports club, though WAGMI has succeeded in its attempt. Earlier in the year, another DAO, ‘BuytheBroncos DAO’, tried to purchase US National Football League (NFL) team the Denver Broncos for US$4 billion.
Following a fruitless endeavor in buying English football crew Bradford City F.C. in December 2021, WAGMI Joined together — a creative Web3 brand using blockchain mechanics and the worldwide wearing society — has reported the securing of English fourth-division group Crawley Town Football Club.
Established in 1896, the West Sussex club known as the Red Demons persevered through a fierce presence both on and off the battleground, or pitch. Wins including two association winning advancements, four standard advancements and seven cup prizes — four being the Sussex Senior Test Cup. This gives fans positive recollections, yet occurrences like the 2006 organization following the change to completely proficient status balance the fortunes.
For more prominent setting on both Crawley Town and the enormous verifiable meaning of English football, Crawley Football Club — as they were known then, at that point, — was established before a portion of the ongoing European heavyweights like Italy's Juventus F.C. in1897, Spain's F.C. Barcelona in 1897 and seven-time Champions Association victors AC Milan in 1899.
WAGMI United Joined is a vanguard venture association in the US established by Preston Johnson and Eben Smith, two prestigious figures inside the nonfungible token (NFT) scene. Johnson is known as the co-maker of "Pixel Vault" and "PunksComics" — the last option of which has exchanged 23,600 Ether on OpenSea — and Smith as the organizer behind Advanced Collectibles Organization.
The recently selected organizers have given a strong promise to coordinate a fan vote to settle on their future job inside the club in the event that they don't make the blueprinted progress of "procuring advancement to Association One before their second's over season in control." In their eyes, the likelihood of advancement during that timetable as we as of now stand is half.
After mentioning further explanation for the alleged "components to consider ourselves responsible" in the beginning public statement with their desires of second-season advancement into Association One, Johnson wasn't yet ready to uncover WAGMI United expectations in regards to possible decentralized independent association (DAO) reception. He did, in any case, solely uncover that "flow season ticket holders will without a doubt" be conceded need admittance to any democratic system executed.