Professional football club Crawley Town FC sign midfielder after NFT vote

June 15 voting took place for verified NFT hodlers via a temporary Discord channel.

English professional football team Crawley Town F.C. have followed up on a vote from the community of fans and non-fungible token (NFT) holders who were recently given their say on what kind of player the team should sign then.

Voting, which took place on June 15 and was the first team decision open to fans, was held for verified NFT hodlers via a temporary Discord channel. Votes were also collected from nearly 1,000 subscribers.

Speaking to the Daily Mail on Thursday, Crawley Town co-owner and former ESPN gambling analyst Preston Johnson stressed the importance of being able to offer fans participation in the club through NFTs:< /p>

"A lot of NFT projects are just speculation with no real tangible backbone, no real true story. Do you have a football club to cheer on every week? It's a backbone that people get attached to."

“If we can bring that to this crypto audience, particularly if we are able to gain promotion and move up the ranks of the English football league, then that is an even bigger story to which the people from all over the world can participate,” he added.

After the vote, Crawley Town announced the signing of midfielder Jayden Davis last week on a free transfer after the 20-year-old completed a successful trial with the club.

Crawley Town ply their trade in League Two, which for those unfamiliar with English football, is confusingly the fourth tier of the English professional league structure. The team was bought by US crypto and Web3 company WAGMI United - We're All Gonna Make It - for an estimated $20 million in April.

The company, founded by Johnson and derivatives trader Eben Smith, has