As reported by BNR, the Dutch Gaming Authority is investigating fantasy football NFT platform Sorare after Ajax football players traded Sorare NFTs allegedly based on insider information. The country’s top football league, Eredivisie, is a partner of Sorare, which has official NFT cards for all the league’s teams and players. The national football organization, KNVB, told BNR that the organization’s gaming regulations do not extend to non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Sorare has responded to the allegations below.
Sorare’s platform operates a fantasy football game where users purchase or trade players’ cards as NFTs and choose from their collection a weekly line-up of five players to go against other users’ line-ups. The performance of the digital team depends on players’ actual playing statistics throughout the week’s games. Among other factors, users’ expectations of a player’s future performance on the field influence their NFT cards’ market price.
In the run-up to Eredivisie’s Cup Final over the weekend, Ajax player Daley Blind sold the NFT of goalkeeper Andre Onana. He and teammate Klaassen purchased NFTs of the backup goalie Maarten Stekelenburg on Sorare’s marketplace. Subsequently, it was revealed that Stekelenburg was the starting goalie for the match, leading to allegations of the players using insider information.
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