{"id":137078,"date":"2025-09-11T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137078\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:44:09","slug":"ufc-and-fight-id-team-up-to-unite-mma-and-web3-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137078\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC And Fight.ID Team Up To Unite MMA And Web3 Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fight.id\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight.ID<\/a>, an official partner of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufcstrike.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Strike<\/a> digital collectibles, uses blockchain technology to bridge the gap between UFC\u2019s massive global fanbase and the growing consumer crypto userbase. Its roadmap includes the development of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fight.id\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight.ID<\/a> as a loyalty experience platform; Prize Fight, a prize pool for additional fighter bonuses; and Fight Gear, premium apparel exclusive to the FIGHT ecosystem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Grant Norris-Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Partnerships, TKO, said: \u201cUFC has always embraced an innovation-first mentality. James and his team have proven to be a dynamic and innovative partner for us and we are extremely excited to support the Fight.ID ecosystem over the next several years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To fuel Fight.ID\u2019s partnership with UFC, the project has raised a fresh round of financing from\u00a0Anthos Capital, Aptos Foundation, Aquanow Ventures, Blockchain Coinvestors, Fabric VC, Jupiter,\u00a0and\u00a0Memeland.\u00a0 It also attracted angel investors including notable UFC talent\u00a0Gilbert Burns, Josh Emmett, Dan Ige, Vicente Luque, Eric Nicksick, Alex Pantoja, and Greg \u2018Robocop\u2019 Rodgriguez; Atlantic Music Group Chief Music Officer\u00a0Craig Kallman, NBA legend\u00a0Baron Davis, NFL all star\u00a0Cam Jordan, and Animoca Brands Chairman\u00a0Yat Siu.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new capital will support the development of a range of digital products that combine Web3 capabilities such as true ownership with new experiences designed to reward and engage combat sports fans. This suite of products will be aligned around FIGHT\u2019s four guiding principles: Fight Fair, Fight Together, Fight Through, and Fight Forever.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs our world continues to become more digitally enabled, there is no better time than now to invest in blockchain projects.\u00a0 There\u2019s also no better time to become a UFC fan as MMA continues to capture our cultural zeitgeist.\u201d said\u00a0James Zhang, CoFounder and CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fight.id\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight.ID<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAs fight fans, we have long admired UFC\u2019s grit and innovation. Over the past three years, our teams have developed incredible trust and collaboration behind building UFC\u2019s official digital collectibles.\u00a0 It\u2019s time now to expand our offerings to invite ALL fight fans to join the tribe of digital ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has a fight story.\u00a0 Join\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fight.id\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight.ID<\/a>.\u00a0 See you in the Octagon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fight.ID, an official partner of\u00a0UFC Strike digital collectibles, uses blockchain technology to bridge the gap between UFC\u2019s massive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-137078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}