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Paris Saint-Germain Fan Token

Research summary:

Paris Saint-Germain Fan Token is essentially a token that allows the sports club to connect with its fans and help increase their overall brand awareness. We will focus on how the project works, what value it adds, and review its pros and cons.

The CMP is $6.22 as of 8th July 2022 

What is the Paris Saint-Germain Fan Token all about?

There are many categories within the crypto industry and some of them are quite popular. There are stablecoins, privacy-based tokens, governance tokens, store of value based tokens and there is Fan token.

Fan tokens are not as popular as the rest of them, however it is a growing niche and has a of future potential. This is proven by the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the greatest Football player of all time, has entered the cryptocurrency space.

Until now the sports industry has been limited to the NFT space, it has started to view FAN tokens as another alternative route of connecting and engaging with their fans, finding new ones and making money.

Fan tokens are quite honest about what it offers and does not claim to change the world neither does it claim to be the currency that is superior to the fiat currency. It represents voting power over minor (not major) decisions regarding the Sports Club/ Sports League it represents. The power of Fan tokens was recognized during the pandemic, when most of the sports clubs took a revenue hit as they could not have thousands of people in their stadiums.

PSG, a successful football club based in France, decided to issue their Fan tokens and decided to engage with their existing fan base. They also took advantage of the bull market and got exposure to millions of people who were not aware of the club.

It is currently ranked at #597 (based on Mcap) in the cryptocurrency market. There is a maximum supply of 20 million PSG tokens out of which 3.1 million (16%) are in circulation. PSG is currently listed on Binance, Gate.io, and FTX.

What is the utility of the $PSG?

The world of football, especially in Europe is multibillion-dollar industry. The Clubs jersey itself tends to generate $100 million+ revenue for the club. This indicates that there are fans who are willing to pay just to be part of the team (by wearing the jersey) and this is precisely what PSG has capitalized with the help of Fan tokens.

Owning a PSG token allows you to influence the decisions for the minor decisions for the club. This came in the form of

  • Choosing the message on the captain’s armband
  • Choosing the BEST Goal of the season
  • Choosing the BEST defensive play of the season
  • Choosing the BEST skill of the season
  • Choosing cover of the game they were featured on.

While PSG has mentioned that the token would buy you influence, it would it only be for minor decisions. The token holders won’t be able to decide the game strategy, the club manager, the salary of the players and what players to add in the squad.

The holders also get the chance to meet their favourite players and access to exclusive merchandise.

Is the cost of $6.22 worth the utility mentioned above? Could be possible, as their most popular merchandise is the club jersey which is worth $120 and there is no utility attached to that piece of clothing except for sentimental value.  

Based on the utility mentioned above, the value of the token could rise if more rewards are added to their list of utility. Here is a hypothetical utility, the token holders get to create the club jersey and the community can vote on which becomes the official version. The fans of the clubs might buy more tokens to get more influence on the matter.

It also has the risk of falling significantly, if the rewards are deemed not worth the current price. This is likely as the decisions that the token holders had influence on was not only minor but also insignificant. The Merchandise and the chance to meet the players is a chance. Only a minority will get the chance benefit while the rest wont.

Competition analysis.

As mentioned above $PSG tokens has peers but there not necessary competition. They will only compete to get the attention from the crypto industry, but that exists outside the world of cryptocurrency as well.

Here is some of the peers to $PSG’s fan token

Alpine F1 Team Fan Token has a market capital of $27 million

FC Barcelona Fan Token has a market capital of $16 million

UFC Fan Token has a market capital of $2 million

Media, and community strength.

Although the market capital of the PSG’s Fan token ($19 million) is not even close to the actual value of the football club ($3.2 billion), the media and community strength is also an outlier and most likely beats most of the crypto projects in the world. However, there isn’t any strong correlation between community strength and the price of the token for this Fan token.

PSG has multiple twitter accounts with millions of followers on each of them. The highest following followed account has close to 12 million followers. 

Conclusion

Pros: PSG fan token is simple to understand and has potential to becomes the next “hot cake” in terms of merchandise for the multibillion-dollar football club. The utility is also quite simple to understand.

Cons: Token is primarily a tool to monetize their community and to find new fans. Fan tokens cannot be considered as an investment but there is a scope of speculation in the short term. The current utility is worth the cost for a minority within their fan base, while the majority of the fanbase + new fans might not find it attractive.

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ENS Research Report

Research summary:

ENS is an open source blockchain based naming protocol that started in 2017. It was part of the Ethereum foundation that decided to split ways at the end of the prior bull run.  We will focus on how the project works, what value it adds, and review its pros and cons.

The CMP is $8.25 as of 1st July 2022 

What is ENS and how does it add value?

When it comes to Ethereum and Web 3 applications, there has always been a barrier for new users. New users often find these platforms quite complicated and technical. If the prices of their coins weren’t so volatile, this industry might not be where it is now as it would not have a lot of eyeballs.  



To use the Ethereum network or any Web 3 application based on Ethereum, you need to have an Ethereum address. An Ethereum address is equivalent to a Gmail account or a Facebook account when it comes to signing up or logging into a website. You can also receive or send any Ethereum based tokens, NFTs and Ethereum itself for a certain gas fee to these addresses.

Here is Vitalik Buterin’s (One of the founders of Ethereum) Ethereum address.  



0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045

Given that the blockchain is completely transparent, we know that the address currently holds 3,203 Ethereum + $3 million worth of Altcoins.



The aspect of having a 30+ character address is often unappealing and this is where ENS comes into the picture. Let’s say that I am the founder of Shiba Inu and I want to send some of my tokens to Vitalik. To do this I will need to input his address. The chances of a mistake are quite high and it is quite difficult to remember what the address is. This is definitely true for new people coming into this ecosystem.

ENS assigns a name to an address, so instead of typing in 0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045 to send money to Vitalik, you can just send it to Vitalik.Eth



Imagine if you had to type in a bunch of numbers to reach a website instead of youtube.com, the adoption of the internet would have been extremely slower than what it is today.  

Perhaps a better comparison would be to look at email ids. Email ids are extremely essential to the existing internet. You need it to send and receive communications and it is THE IDENTITY required to use any website that requires a login. If the email ids would have been 0xa8346ngslnmeawp80174Ac91fkLAD1@gmail.com instead of this vitalik@gmail.com. Internet’s adoption would be decades behind.

Does this have a future?

If Ethereum is going to be the foundation of Web3 applications (which is the future of the internet), it will require naming protocols to simplify the world of web3 applications.

Just like how Domain names simplified the internet, similarly ENS would simplify Web3. There are already 1.12 million names already integrated.


Is this service Free?

The Ethereum name service does not provide its services for free. They charge for the address name and the cost moves up along with the duration of the purchase.

It will cost me $500 to register a name for 100 years.



What is the utility of the ENS token and who are the competitors?

ENS is the native token to the decentralized platform and it acts as a governance token. Token holders have the power to propose powers and voting powers. It has a maximum supply of 100 million ENS tokens out of which 20% is in circulation.

ENS was widely popular as 25% of its circulating supply was airdropped and the prices instead of crashing kept on going towards the upside.



It has 57,996 token holders and the top account holders are exchanges.

ENS is not alone in this space and has competition. The biggest competition is the Unstoppable domains.

Team, Media, and community strength.

ENS is a DAO that is represented by a non-profit ENS foundation that is based in the Cayman Islands. It is however managed by the overall ENS token holders.

ENS has a strong community strength. They have 189.7k Twitter followers and they have an active medium channel. Their media strength is also quite strong as most of the celebrities buy an ENS domain after buying an NFT.  

Conclusion

Pros: ENS is working on one of the most basic solutions that are likely to eliminate barriers to entry. It has cemented itself as a 1st mover within this industry. ENS is the 1st thing that pops into people’s minds when people talk about crypto domain names. The token holders aren’t extremely concentrated compared to other decentralized applications.

Cons:  ENS has locked itself to the Ethereum network and a person cannot buy a domain name, rather you can only rent it for a certain duration. During the bear markets, ENS’s growth is dependent on the growth and adoption of Web 3.0. This might stall or fall during such a time period as prices (Which is the main driver to bring people into the crypto space) take a hit.

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