Ready to Fight, co-founded by Ukrainian world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, has joined forces with the TON Foundation to bring crypto-friendly debit cards to Telegram.
Ready to Fight, a web3 boxing app built on the Ethereum and BNB Chain (formerly Binance Smart Chain) blockchains, partners with the TON Foundation and Kauri One, a blockchain developer, to offer a crypto-enabled debit card on the Telegram messenger in an effort to expand use cases for the RTF token.
According to a press release shared with crypto.news, the partnership will allow RTF holders to spend their tokens globally at merchants that support Mastercard using Apple Pay. Additionally, within their in-app wallet, users can buy, hold, exchange, and sell nine other tokens, including Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT), and Ethereum (ETH), and convert them into RTF tokens.
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Commenting on the partnership, Ready to Fight CEO Sergey Lapin said blockchain “opens up huge opportunities to support the growth of the sports industry, and this is especially the case for boxing.”
“The enormous demand for Ready to Fight demonstrates its potential, but we can only achieve mass adoption by ensuring ease of use and a wide range of use cases,” said Lapin.
Ready to Fight launched in late 2023 and already has more than 150,000 users, including 15,000 boxers, and has received support from boxing champions such as Amir Khan, Mike Tyson and Michael Buffer. The app is designed as a “middleman” between athletes and the specialists and services that “help them develop and make money,” according to the project’s tokenomics. The platform also uses its own native token RTF for “all financial transactions on the platform,” including donations and payments for products and services.
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