After seeing the hype over Dogecoin (DOGE) on Twitter, which was mostly spearheaded by Elon Musk, Naomi Osaka, a top tennis player from Japan, has been outspoken and in talks with her agent about her interests in cryptocurrencies.
In a recent Bloomberg interview, Osaka said that she has been discussing cryptocurrency with her agency after learning about Dogecoin and its potential to “rise up.”
Way before she spoke to her agent about it, the tennis giant credited Twitter’s crypto environment as the primary source of her interest in Dogecoin investments.
Before the commencement of the U.S. Open tournament, Osaka entered the non-fungible token (NFT) sector by creating a collection of rare tokens.
In April, Osaka and her sister, Mari Osaka, released a six-piece collection of one-of-a-kind NFTs, which collectively sold for about $600,000.
The maximum purchase price for one NFT was $200,200, which makes it the most expensive NFT ever sold by a professional tennis player.
NFTs and other sector collab
Soccer is another big sport that has maintained its interest in NFT. PSG fan tokens were recently produced by the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team, which became popular after great star Lionel Messi joined the club. Messi’s two-year PSG contract reportedly included PSG tokens as part of his compensation package.
Apart from sports, prominent corporations such as Budweiser and Visa have begun to acquire NFTs rather than creating their own tokens.
Top entrepreneurs have also backed NFTs, including Mark Cuban, who invested in “scalable AI infrastructure for NFTs”.
NFT-based CDs are also being sold by mainstream musicians like Kings of Leon, who have sold over $2 million in total. Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda was one of the first major label musicians to release an NFT single.
