İstanbul Başakşehir is the latest soccer club to launch a fan token

İstanbul Başakşehir is the latest soccer club to launch a fan token

The appetite for blockchain-based fan tokens appears to be limitless amongst big-league soccer clubs across the globe. İstanbul Başakşehir, last season's winner of the Turkish Süper Lig, has joined the Socios platform and will launch its own fan token ($IBFK) by the end of 2020.$IBFK, like other fan tokens in the Socios ecosystem, confers voting rights and rewards upon holders and is designed to boost fan engagement, and to monetize various fan experiences, both on and offline.Token holders can vote in polls on club decisions and earn points that, once accumulated, can be cashed in in....


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