Virtua partners with Yorkshire Cricket Club, explores NFTs

METAVERSE platform Virtua will officially partner with Yorkshire County Cricket Club for the remainder of the 2022 season and beyond.
The partnership begins today and fans will begin to see Virtua branding appear around YCCC’s home ground for domestic and international matches.
As part of the partnership, Virtua and YCCC are exploring a number of NFT collections for fans, including money can’t buy experiences.
The partnership will see Virtua working with another major brand in British sport, since it joined Williams Racing as its official metaverse partner earlier in the year

Established in 2017, Virtua is a gamified metaverse platform and industry-leading NFT marketplace, which partners with leading brands and IPs to produce premium NFT collections and provides access for brands and individuals to enter the metaverse.
Jawad Ashraf, Virtua CEO, said: “We’re excited to be partnering with Yorkshire County Cricket Club, discussions are already taking place around what could be our first NFT collection.
“Following Williams Racing, it’s another great partnership for us to explore activity that will transition into our soon-to-launch metaverse.”
Yorkshire’s chief operating officer Andy Dawson said: “Virtua are the ideal partner to collaborate with as we look to take Yorkshire County Cricket Club to the next stage in fan engagement, the metaverse.

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