FIFA Secretly Teleports Its NFTs—Now They Can Play With the Big Blockchains!

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Well, gather ‘round, children and crypto-curious grown-ups! 🍫🎩 The Federation Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA as it’s rather pompously called, has cooked up a plan so techy, even Willy Wonka’s Oompa Loompas would be scratching their heads. On April 30, FIFA announced it’s brewing a brand new blockchain concoction—something they’re calling the “FIFA Blockchain.” (Wonder if it comes in strawberry flavour?)

This new blockchain, rumoured to be as swift as a golden ticket winner on chocolate day, will be friends with Ethereum’s Virtual Machine (EVM)—which really means it can play nicely with the cool crowd. They brag it’ll be all bells, whistles, zippy performance, and, gulp, “future features,” which makes you wonder if it’ll soon sprout arms and score a hat-trick all on its own. ⚽🤖

Now for the gobsmacker: FIFA Collect—their grand NFT collection—is packing its digital bags and moving out of the Algorand blockchain’s comfy little house. It’s skipping over to this brand spanking new FIFA Blockchain mansion, migration kicking off not before May 20. Don’t bother to buckle your seatbelt, there’s “no immediate action required”—unless you count nervously biting your nails.

“Calm your boots,” FIFA declares. Once they’re ready to shuffle your NFTs from one magic land to another, you’ll get a step-by-step guide—probably with arrows, bold fonts, and quite possibly a wink from the digital referee. No one likes to be left offside.

When the migration day whistles, external wallets like Pera and Defly (sound suspiciously like minor Harry Potter characters) will be shown the red card. The new kids on the pitch? MetaMask and any wallet snazzy enough to support WalletConnect. It’s like moving your chocolate coins from one vault to another—with only the tastiest wallets allowed.

If you have collectables still up for grabs, never fear: they’ll be listed automatically in their new home—unless you sneakily delist them before showtime. Don’t want your digital football card going rogue, do you?

And that’s the play-by-play for now! The rest is a cliffhanger—stay tuned as more details drip in, one sticky toffee bit at a time. 🍬🕵️‍♂️

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2025-04-30 15:28