Crypto trading platform Voyager Digital has inked a deal with the National Women's Soccer League, or NWSL, aiming to provide players with crypto instruction and financial support.

In a Tuesday announcement, Voyager said information technology would get the league'south offset cryptocurrency brokerage partner every bit function of a multi-year bargain. The trading platform said a "meaning amount" of the investment would fund rostered players' crypto accounts. There are expected to exist 12 teams in the NWSL starting in 2022, and so up to 312 players could benefit from the Voyager partnership.

"Voyager'due south investment in the league is particularly innovative because we've collectively designed the partnership to include direct financial resources for every 1 of our players, every bit well as educational activity on the revolutionary changes underway in digital assets," said NWSL interim CEO Marla Messing.

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As part of the bargain with Voyager, 1 player from each of the NWSL's teams will deed equally an administrator, attending educational events and creating crypto-related content. The exchange said it would be offering "key lessons and tools" aimed at helping players develop long-term financial growth opportunities later their sports careers accept ended.

Many crypto companies and platforms have formed partnerships with sports organizations beyond the earth as the space expands and seemingly becomes more profitable as a sponsor. Voyager is already the crypto brokerage and international partner for the Dallas Mavericks basketball team following an Oct bargain. Crypto derivatives exchange FTX likewise announced it had become the official sponsor of Major League Baseball in June.

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Founded in 2022, Voyager Digital currently offers more than than threescore digital assets for trading on its mobile app, which also includes services such as yield farming. In October, the platform announced it had received a $75 one thousand thousand investment from crypto quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider Alameda Research.