09/06/2026
⚽ Almost 3.5 billion people will watch as the FIFA World Cup kicks off this Thursday.
Almost none of the spectators have any say in how the teams they love are actually run.
So here’s the question worth asking during football’s biggest month:
📍What if Football was governed via a DAO on a ?
🌐 What happens when fans are treated as participants in Football, not merely spectators?
✍🏽 A study in the Journal of The British Blockchain Association ( ) put Decentralised Autonomous Organisations ( ) to the test as a governance model for football.
Worth a read as the tournament begins.
Research from BBA's Centre for Evidence Based Blockchain ( ) member, Marco Peirera.
JBBA Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr Naseem Naqvi MBE FBBA.
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