Argentina’s fan token sinks 31% after World Cup loss against Saudi Arabia
Argentina’s shock 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in the opening match of the FIFA World Cup has plummeted the price of the Argentine Football Association Fan Token (ARG), in line with the hopes of the nation’s die-hard soccer fans.
With the ARG token priced at $7.21 at kick-off, the poor performance by the Lionel Messi-led soccer team saw the token’s price fall 31% to $4.96 by the end of the match before rising to $5.22 at the time of writing, according to data from Coingecko.
By contrast, the floor price of "The Saudis," a Saudi Arabian-themed nonfungible token (NFT) collection unrelated to the soccer team, skyrocketed 52.6% from 0.196 Ether (ETH) to 0.3 ETH over the same time before cooling off to a price of 0.225 ETH, around $250.
The collection's sales volume also spiked 990% over the last 24 hours, closing in on 24.5 ETH as per OpenSea data.
Despite the built-up hype for the FIFA World Cup, which officially kicked off on Nov. 20, cryptocurrency research firm Delphi Digital noted that the fan engagement platform Socios' native token Chiliz (CHZ), in addition to other soccer-based tokens representing participating nations, has also cooled off considerably over the last few days:
Football Fan Tokens have cratered over the past 3 days as the FIFA World Cup 2022 Begins:Chilis / $CHZ: -21%Argentina / $ARG: -17%Portugal / $POR: -17%Brazil / $BFT: -21%Spain / $SNFT: -31%Peru / $FPFT: -26%The index (FOOTBALL) is down 21% over the period. pic.twitter.com/y7tb72R3Et
CHZ is an ERC-20 token native on Socios, a blockchain-powered fan engagement platform that has been one of the largest contributors to the sports-fan token boom.
Many of the soccer–based tokens run on Socios, which has partnerships with some of the largest soccer clubs in the
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