World’s 1st Cricket NFT Marketplace CricketCrazy.io Is Here

Cricket Foundation, the Singapore-based platform, built by the cricketing community, was announced in April and went live in May 2021. After tremendous progress in the past few months, the network has hit several important milestones. 

The Cricket Foundation, in a press conference, made a slew of announcements and many first among them, CricketCrazy.io, the world's first NFT marketplace exclusive for cricket is live now. The platform has about 50+ unique moments from cricket history on the first day worth over $200,000. 

Abhijit Sarkar, Co-founder, Cricket Foundation, said, “CricketCrazy.io is a platform for the collection and sale of cricket digital collectibles. Its a new way for fans and collectors to collect digital media, which was not possible till recently. We have built a native blockchain-based platform for Cricket, specifically meant for the cricket ecosystem, with an immediate capability of NFT based Digital Collectibles. However, it is important to understand, that the NFT platform is only the beginning of what we are building as a digital ecosystem.” 

Atul Srivastava, Co-founder, Cricket Foundation said, “Cricket is a sport that is evolving at a remarkable pace, with its growing global appeal the democratization of cricket is inevitable. With the continuous addition of players, partners and members, now fans across the world will have access to the widest collection of cricket NFTs offering them a chance to own and represent the priceless moments. The marketplace will soon launch gamification experiences to fans and users as well creating a unique platform for fan engagement”.

CricketCrazy.io also gamifies the entire experience and is announcing over 50 million CRIC in reward pools for various challenges that are played on the platform. The first challenge – Beginner’s Luck, is live from Wednesday.

Co-founder of Cricket Foundation, Parthiv Patel, said, “It is a novel way for us to engage with our fans, CricketCrazy presents a unique digital offering to cricketers and franchisees to enhance their reach as well as the relationship with fans by giving them a sense of belonging, involving them in community decisions, and keeping them engaged with the game. For the fans, NFTs are the only way to probably own digital sports assets and collectibles."