Socios.com, a fan engagement network powered by the Chiliz blockchain, has boosted its functionality with several new features, improving the way sports fans interact with their favorite teams via Fan Tokens. The tokens provide genuine engagement opportunities for the fans. Let’s learn about Socios.com and its new features to understand how the platform is changing the sports fan experience.
What Is Socios.com?
By using blockchain technology, Socios.com offers a way for sports teams to interact meaningfully with their fans. Its distinct strategy involves the use of Fan Tokens, where a person’s passion for their team gets rewarded.
Participating in fan activities such as score predictions, voting, and game check-ins earns you XP and loyalty points, which can be redeemed for unique experiences. Since 2018, Fan Token holders have relished perks like traveling with their favorite team to away games or playing in renowned stadiums.
The newly implemented ‘Fan Favorite’, ‘Locker Room’, and ‘Auction’ features boost the utility of Fan Tokens and offer a wide range of benefits to many sports enthusiasts, including increased access to digital collectibles and enhanced matchday experience. Let us discover how.
Fan Favourites: A New Take On Fan Engagement
Socios.com has enhanced fan interaction with the ‘Fan Favourite’ feature, an addition to its existing Check-in and Predictor functionalities. This feature enables fans to provide feedback on player performances and vote for their top players during games. Fans can cast their votes for a Fan Favourite in the final 15 minutes of each match, with the option to choose two if both teams are Socios.com partners.
With participation from 57 football partners and more than 260,000 votes cast already, ‘Fan Favourite’ also gives fans a platform to engage in community discussions, earning SSU points for various rewards and exclusive experiences. Fan Favourites will also be made available to Socios’ racing and rugby partners in 2024.
Unlocking Digital Collectibles In The Locker Room
Live matches offer excitement, but what happens after the game is also important for the fans. Thanks to Web3, digital collectibles add some depth to fan interactions after matches. Socios.com’s ‘Locker Room’ feature enables fans to acquire these collectibles by locking their Fan Tokens and later redeeming unique rewards. These tokens, after they are locked, are not for sale or withdrawal, yet they remain active for the other platform activities.
The ‘Locker Room’ comes in two types: ‘Locked Locker,’ where rewards are instantly accessible, but tokens remain locked until the campaign concludes, and ‘Flexible Locker,’ which permits fans to unlock tokens after the campaign without receiving rewards.
Fans are allowed to choose from various digital collectibles from their favorite teams (Classic, Bronze, Silver, and Gold), subject to the number of tokens they lock. Rewards include signed merchandise, VIP tickets, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The chance to redeem the digital collectibles for the next season is open until November 28, with more than 25,000 digital collectibles already redeemed by thousands of fans.
Auction: Bid For Autographed Jerseys And More
Introducing the ‘Auction’ feature, fans can use Socios.com’s native currency, CHZ, within the app to bid on and acquire balls from key moments in Serie A matches. This is open to all fans, irrespective of the club Fan Tokens they hold or the accumulated SSU. Socios has official partnerships with major football leagues, including the Italian Serie A.
Fans also have a chance to bid on game-worn and autographed jerseys via an association with leading sports memorabilia vendor MatchWornShirt. Whenever a transaction is confirmed, the exchange rates will be fixed, and when a user wins an auction, their CHZ will be transferred from their wallet. The feature will soon become available across Socios.com’s 25 football partners.
The Rise Of A Global Web3 Sports Community
Deeply passionate, sports fans pour hope and emotion into their favorite teams. Recognizing that Socios.com links the enthusiastic fans with the teams they love. Using Fan Tokens powered by the Chiliz blockchain, Socios.com strives to develop a massive global Web3 sports community. The community, now over 2 million strong and spread across 160 nations, highlights the platform’s focus on fan-centric engagement.
Wb3 is the critical factor, enabling fans to actively engage with their favorite teams beyond the stadium. Hopefully, this marks a new era where the fans are more than just spectators; they become participants.
