SailGP partners with NEAR to create a DAO for fan-owned teams

This week saw champion sailing and blockchain tech join forces to bring fans closer to the sport. At this season’s race in San Francisco, SailGP announced a partnership with NEAR Foundation, makers of blockchain platform Astro. I’m attending the competition, so I took a look at what this means for the sport — and it’s big. What is SailGP? The fleet cross the start line on Race Day 1 of the San Francisco SailGP. Credit: Ricardo Pinto for SailGP. SailGP is a global sailing league co-founded in 2019 by tech mogul Larry Ellison, co-founder, CTO, and former CEO of Oracle.…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/sailing-fans-will-be-able-to-form-their-own-sailgp-dao

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