🎙 Onchain Sports Collectibles in 2026

🚨 The Sporting Crypto Podcast is back! 🚨

🎤️ Live from Sports Blockchain Summit II in London, we're joined by:

• Sunil Singhvi, Head of Partnerships @ Courtyard

We discuss:

• 🧗 The challenge of pitching Web3 services to rights holders demanding payment

• ✅ The transition from Web3 as a cash machine to proving audience revenue

• 💎 Introduction to Courtyard: physical collectibles with a digital blockchain layer

• ⛓️ How Courtyard uses blockchain to build trust and ensure item provenance

• ⚙️ Courtyard's vending machine model, buyback offer, and business mechanics explained

• 🤝 The opportunity for IP partnerships focused on discovery and fan delight

• 🎮 Courtyard as a gamified discovery platform versus influencing market prices

• 🤔 Addressing perceptions of gambling through transparency and expected value

• 🙌 User acquisition through viral social content and live experiential marketing

🎙️ Listen on any podcast player

📹️ Watch on YouTube

Supported by Hedera Foundation

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