NBA player Tristan Thompson will launch the Web3 project basketball.fun to tokenize NBA players

According to ChainCatcher, according to CoinDesk, NBA player Tristan Thompson is joining forces with Improbable CEO Herman Narula and co-founder Hadi Teherany to create a new Web3 experience project to bring new viewing experience to basketball fans in the digital age. The project, called basketball.fun, will be launched before the NBA season in October, aiming to gamify the interaction between fans and players and games. The platform is developed based on the Layer1 blockchain Somnia launched earlier this month. Unlike traditional fantasy sports or fan tokens, the platform tokenize NBA players, and player values ​​fluctuate in real time with fans' emotions and performance. Fans can form a lineup, predict new stars and receive rewards. Teherany stressed that the app does not issue native tokens, unlike projects that rely on token prices, player values ​​will reflect fan sentiment and match results.