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Spanish soccer club FC Barcelona has secured a 120 million euro ($132 million) investment from Libero Football Finance AG and Nipa Capital B.V. for its Web3 initiative, Bar\u00e7a Vision.<\/p>\n
According to the Aug. 11 announcement, FC Barcelona sold a 29.5% stake in Bridgeburg Invest, the holding company for Bar\u00e7a Vision, in exchange for the capital. \u201cBar\u00e7a Vision is the Club\u2019s initiative to integrate all digital content around Web3 and blockchain including NFTs and metaverse, which are part of the Club\u2019s strategy to build the digital Espai Bar\u00e7a,\u201d developers wrote.<\/p>\n
Libero is a publicly listed company in Germany consulting soccer clubs on financial matters. Nipa Capital is a venture capital firm domiciled in the Netherlands. The transaction is subject to the approval of FC Barcelona shareholders and is expected to close in Q4 2023.<\/p>\n
Since February 2020, FC Barcelona has partnered with the Chiliz blockchain to create Ethereum-based FC Barcelona Fan Tokens (BAR) for its sports franchise. In August 2022, Chiliz announced it had purchased a 24.5% stake in FC Barcelona\u2019s digital content creation arm, Bar\u00e7a Vision, for $100 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n In May, FC Barcelona launched its first inaugural NFT collection with Plastiks. Dubbed \u201cUnleash Your Passion,\u201d the collection features 3,000 animal-themed NFTs at a price of $30 each that the club says will contribute to \u201cremoving 35,000,000 kilograms of plastic from our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n Subsequently, in July 2022, the football club sold its first NFT, \u201cMasterpiece #1 In A Way\u201d at Sotheby\u2019s New York auction for $693,000. The second collectible in the series, \u201cMasterpiece #2 – Empowerment,\u201d was sold on OpenSea on June 28, 2023, for $300,231.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2705| OFFICIAL: FC Barcelona reaches an agreement with Libero Football Finance and private investment advisors NIPA Capital BV to become new partners of Bridgeburg Invest, a Bar\u00e7a Vision trademark.<\/p>\n These investors have acquired 29.5% of the ownership of Bar\u00e7a Vision for \u20ac120m,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/4aWCMO8iA1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Bar\u00e7a Buzz (@Barca_Buzz) August 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n