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CryptoFifa：Football NFT GameFi on its way to Rock the Crypto World

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The overwhelmingly popular collections in 2021 are star cards and NFT (Non-Fungible Token), both of which entered a big bull market unexpectedly.

For investors, star cards and NFT worth paying attention in the year of 2021. A strong rise of star cards so far has been witnessed in 2021’s collectibles market. Judging from the tendency, this kind of trend is expected to be intensified and has created countless miracles. NFT, a kind of non-fungible tokens, will be ready to shine a light in 2021. Its emergence redefines that value can not only always be carried by encrypted currency, but can be carried by another new and unique media, namely cryptocurrency. Also, its trading volume has been skyrocketing. 

Then, what will happen when a collision was generated by star cards and NFTs?

1. The huge market value of the star cards

On April 27th this year, a signed rookie star card of the Los Angeles Lakers’ top star James was auctioned for a sky-high price of $5.2 million, setting a new record for the transaction price of a basketball star card. In the same way, it also happened in the field of football– the Pele Collection Card is the most valuable player card in the world, and a single card on eBay has been maintaining beyond a six digits price. What is behind the dynamics of star card prices at historically high prices is the increasingly prevalent collectibles market. It is estimated that in 2021, the annual turnover of various star cards will reach the level of tens of billions of dollars.

There is no doubt that star cards have their investment value. According to calculations by authoritative organizations, the return rate of investing in star cards reaching an astonishing 264%, while the S&P 500 index is just 102% in the same period. In the sports collectibles market, the value of its collectibles is usually proportional to the star’s fame, and the frequency of a player’s signature is inversely proportional to the value derived from him. This aspect also shows the value of the star card collection, which extends a global star card culture and is being increasingly accepted by the public.

2. Trends: Star Card + NFT + Game

With the popularity mixed by the traditional star card and NFT market, the NFT-based star card was born. The popularity of star card NFT not only stems from the underlying development of blockchain technology but the huge market of fans.

It is notable that the right to issue traditional star cards is in the hands of a few giant companies. In the field of football, the production and distribution rights of traditional football star cards are in the hands of Futera, Topps, Panini, and others. They have the right to operate diverse star cards such as the five major European football leagues and multiple national football teams. Because of this, to further expand the value of star cards, many European football giants have launched their own NFTs, enabling users to trade players’ digital cards in the form of NFTs on the blockchain. Among them, there are more recent international footballs. Superstar Bailey will launch his first NFT on May 2nd. However, the existing star card NFT projects are more limited to collection and transaction attributes, lack of gameplay, and low player interaction.

Faced with this blue ocean market, major technology companies have flown into the sports NFT market one after another. Currently, various kinds of NFT applications come into being endlessly. However, a star card + NFT + DeFi product which can satisfy all kinds of needs is still absent in the market. Under this context, CryptoFifa comes into being.

3.What is CryptoFifa?

CryptoFifa takes the football star card as an entry to show the perfect form of the star card NFT, and it will be further promoted to become a trend.

CryptoFifa, issued based on the Binance Smart Chain, is an NFT-based encrypted star card Gamefi platform. While in the NFT world, OpenSea, Sorare, Hashmasks, Gods Unchained, and other predecessors in their respective fields are still fighting alone, CryptoFifa, a latecomer, has taken the lead and started to integrate resources and to unify the sports NFT arena.

Cryptofifa, a crypto football player card Gamefi platform combines NFT, Defi features, and traditional football gameplay. The game integrates popular gameplay such as football themes, mystery packs, card trading, and event mining. Not only is it full of fun, the NFT cards and tokens obtained in the game can also be traded, allowing players to earn considerable income while playing. The platform operated on a sustainable revenue model through a stable game mechanism. In other words, the players can gain income while entertaining.

3.The Feature and Value of Cryptofifa

(1) Strong Liquidity

According to the current market condition, NFT transactions have some certain bottlenecks, which are mainly reflected in their insufficient liquidity. This pain point has plagued many NFT projects. But when it comes to CryptoFifa, there will be no shortage of liquidity.

Firstly, the CryptoFifa project takes football as an entry. Football, as the world’s largest sport, has a great number of fans and is intrinsically popular. It means that there is endless market enthusiasm and rising football superstars, with a very long game life cycle. Not to mention, the European Cup originally planned to be held last year was postponed to this summer due to the Covid-19. Fans who have been emotionally suppressed for a long time are about to usher in a “retaliatory” football spree. In addition, this European Cup will coincide with its 60th anniversary, and fans from all over the world will be gathering there. Cheer up for this super sport feast.

Secondly, to better enhance the liquidity of the NFTs, the CryptoFifa project team issued a total of 1 billion FFA based on ERC-20 as the currency for the circulation of the game. It is the token that anchors a package of high-quality NFT assets. In other words, all the expenses in the game and all bills can be settled with FFA tokens, which not only endow asset attributes but are an important support for structural form and gameplay. It is worth pointing out that to stabilize the FFA currency price, the project team promised that the total circulation of tokens in the secondary market within the first 6 months of the game will be strictly controlled within 50 million.

Thirdly, CryptoFifa will cooperate with many global leading trading platforms to boost the trading volume and liquidity of NFTs. Up to now, CryptoFifa has reached strategic cooperation with the world’s leading NFT asset trading platform to jointly build an NFT game value ecology and safeguard CryptoFifa.

(2) Game Innovation

Blind boxes have been highly sought-after in recent years because you can never know what they are after opening it. This sort of gameplay is both artistic and exploratory and has become a new decompression method and collectibles. Take the traditional star card for instance, which is usually sold in boxes or packages. There are multiple cards in one box, but there is usually a single signed star card. You never know which star the signature card will be. If you got this year’s rookie Harland, congratulations, the possibility of its appreciation is very high. This game that grows together with the stars has attracted countless fans.

Similarly, CryptoFifa uses this novel blind box card-drawing gameplay. Identity and card scarcity level, different cards have different wining rates. In addition, the platform adjusts the number, price, and other parameters of card packs to carry out the circulation index of NFT cards and FFA tokens in the overall game ecology with a macro control manner. Unlike the traditional blind box, CryptoFifa uses a gamified NFT token issuance method. In other words, what you buy may only be a token, but what you buy is a basket of top NFT assets. Therefore, it has a stronger liquidity.

To overcome the demerits of the long return period of traditional star cards, the player cards users can obtain through CryptoFifa blind box draw before the start of the game, since no one can predict the players performance before the game, as the game moves forward, these cards price will fluctuate with the performance of each athlete. If the purchased player performs well during the game, the player’s card will appreciate in real time, which will increase investor incentives accordingly and gain profit at one go.

(2) Game of Fun

For a more humane design, the design of the NFT star card takes the game and collection scenario into consideration, that is, each football layer corresponds to the casting of 100 RARE cards, 10 SPECIAL cards, and 1 UNIQUE card.

At the collection level, fans can permanently keep their favorite star cards. In addition, if users buy the cards of certain young players, if they show a better performance in the future, then a brilliant career, or even leave a permanent mark in the history of the sport, then the card value will continuously rise which will become a successful investment. For example, you are lucky enough to buy the card of Haaland, a player with great potential. As his fame rises, the price of this card will also go up.

At the game level, to ramp up the game interaction, the project team added game mining, that is, the platform regularly takes snapshots of the user’s wallet address, the user holds an encrypted star card, and the corresponding player stats, scores, team to win, users can get FFA tokens as reward proportionally. For example, Dortmund Haaland started and scored two goals to lead Dortmund to win Bayern with 2-0. Congratulations, you will receive a certain amount of FFA currency as rewards.

The game also draws on the gem synthesis upgrade gameplay in traditional games, Squad Building Challenge: The system will issue squad building tasks according to the hot events, and users can collect the required cards to synthesize higher level cards according to the requirements to get extra mining rewards.

What’s more, Throughout the game, all transactions, including player selection, point calculation, and reward distribution, will be completed through smart contracts. The game reward distribution will be utterly transparent, fair, and efficient.

5.Conclusion

To wrap up, CryptoFifa has designed a set of sophisticated game consumption incentive mechanism to maximize the interests of investors. On the one hand, unlike traditional markets that are usually opaque, these rare NFT works can be re-sold to the secondary market for revenue. On the other hand, players can also obtain income through competitions and tasks. This is the so-called Play to Earn concept CryptoFifa working so hard to achieve.

NFT is described as a special crypto asset, which is considered valuable due to its security and scarcity. Once it combined with decentralized financial products, it will release greater energy. At present, CryptoFifa has officially cooperated with FIFPro to obtain a game license for the portraiture rights of more than 1,100 players. Players mainly come from the 60 member states of the FIFPro, as well as active professional players from the top 5 football leagues in Europe. Chances are we will see the collection that can well represent this era. The star card that has been snatching up will be the CryptoFifa non-fungible token (NFT) star card in the near future.

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HandwrittenToExcel.com Launches AI Tool to Convert Handwritten Documents to Excel Sheets

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HandwrittenToExcel.com has launched an AI tool that automates the conversion of handwritten documents into Excel spreadsheets, removing manual data entry for organizations processing paper records.

United States, 30th Jul 2026 – HandwrittenToExcel.com has launched a web-based tool that uses AI to read handwritten documents and convert them into Excel spreadsheets. The tool was developed to address the time and labor costs associated with manually transcribing handwritten forms, timesheets, and field records into digital spreadsheets, a process that remains common across industries including construction, agriculture, healthcare, and education.

The tool works without predefined templates. Users upload a photo or scan of a handwritten document and receive a structured Excel file with each handwritten value mapped to the correct row and column. The system handles print, cursive, and mixed handwriting styles, and processes documents it has not seen before without prior configuration.

Since launch, the platform has been used by over 5,000 organizations and has processed more than five million pages. A staffing agency using the tool to process weekly timesheets for 300 field employees reported eliminating weekend data entry shifts within one day of deployment. A school district processing handwritten attendance sheets from 15 locations daily reported reducing what had been a two-person manual operation to a task completed in minutes.

The platform is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and HIPAA compliant. Uploaded documents are deleted within 24 hours and are not retained for AI training purposes. HandwrittenToExcel.com is powered by Lido.

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HandwrittenToExcel.com is a document conversion tool that uses AI to turn handwritten forms and records into structured Excel spreadsheets. It is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, HIPAA compliant, and powered by Lido.

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Gambling.com Group Is Now Grandstand

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Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, July 30th, 2026, FinanceWire

New Name Captures Company’s Evolution into the Intelligence Layer of Sports, Gaming and Entertainment.

Gambling.com Group Limited (Nasdaq: GAMB) (the “Company”) today announced that it has changed its name to Grandstand Limited. Beginning with the market open tomorrow, July 23, 2026, the Company’s ordinary shares will trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol “GRSD”. The Company’s new corporate website is live at grandstand.com.

Since its IPO in July 2021, the Company has materially diversified its business beyond performance marketing. The rebrand to Grandstand evolves the company name to better align with where it sits today – at the heart of the sports and gaming ecosystem, making consumers sharper and partners stronger through its broad portfolio of data, technology, content and audience solutions.

The new corporate name draws a clear distinction between Grandstand, the company, and Gambling.com, the consumer brand, which will continue to operate as a trusted comparison and reviews website. 

“Grandstand captures our position as the intelligence layer powering informed decisions for consumers and partners across sports, gaming and entertainment,” said Kevin McCrystle, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Grandstand. “The new name Grandstand brings together the broad array of products and services in our portfolio, while also creating room for what we are building now and our long-term roadmap.”

The Full Grandstand

Today, Grandstand serves both consumers and partners. Grandstand’s consumer brands reach millions of people globally, helping people find the best odds, discover the right casino, win their fantasy league, and get the most out of Las Vegas. Brands such as OddsJam, RotoWire, Gambling.com, Casinos.com, and WhichBingo tap into unique audiences and help inform users.

Grandstand’s partner solutions span data, advertising and technology across four core areas:

  • Sports Data: Real-time odds data, line movement, injuries and sports content that powers decisions across sportsbooks, trading desks, market makers, fantasy platforms and sports media through OpticOdds and RotoWire.
  • Advertising: Adtech and commercial solutions to connect casino and sportsbook operators with relevant audiences on trusted consumer brands.
  • Audience Monetization: Technology and commercial support platform that gives media companies, apps, communities and influencers the infrastructure to monetize their audiences at scale through Grandstand Partners.
  • Entertainment & Tickets: Ticketing and experiences for Las Vegas venues, casinos and hotels through Spotlight.Vegas.

Existing shareholders are not required to take any action. The Company’s ordinary shares continue to be listed on Nasdaq and the CUSIP remains unchanged.

About Grandstand

Founded in 2006, Grandstand (Nasdaq: GAMB; to change to GRSD on July 23, 2026) is the intelligence layer powering informed decisions for consumers and partners across sports, gaming and entertainment. Grandstand’s brands include OddsJam, OpticOdds, RotoWire, Gambling.com and Casinos.com. Its partner solutions span sports data, advertising, audience monetization and entertainment and tickets. For more information, visit grandstand.com.

Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that relate to our current expectations and views of future events. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release, including statements relating to the anticipated benefits of changing our corporate name from Gambling.com Group to Grandstand and the related rebranding activities, are all forward-looking statements. These statements represent our opinions, expectations, beliefs, intentions, estimates or strategies regarding the future, which may not be realized. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “expect,” “predict,” “potential,” “could,” “will,” “would,” “ongoing,” “future” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions that are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Forward-looking statements are based largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy, short-term and long-term business operations and objectives and financial needs. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies, changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially and/or significantly different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statement. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations are discussed under “Item 3. Key Information – Risk Factors” in our annual report filed on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2025 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 19, 2026, and our other filings with the SEC as such factors may be updated from time to time. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof and accordingly undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. We disclaim any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than to the extent required by applicable law.

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The Alliterative Alphabet Book Builds Publishing Momentum After BIBF 2026

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The Alliterative Alphabet Book by John Akin has gained international exposure after its presentation at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair. Featured at the Explora Books exhibition last June, the independently published children’s picture book was introduced to publishers, booksellers, and rights professionals, prompting discussions about literary representation and broader media opportunities.

John Akin’s The Alliterative Alphabet Book takes readers on a joyful romp through the alphabet, pairing each letter with a wonderfully wordy character—from “amazingly agile acrobat” Angie Axlerod to “zealous zoologist” Zachary Zellenbach—brought to life through the vivid illustrations of Alexis Eastburn. Unlike traditional alphabet books aimed solely at toddlers, Akin’s collection uses a richer, playful vocabulary designed to be read aloud by older children, teenagers, or adults to younger listeners. The result is a shared, multigenerational reading experience that celebrates language, sound, and wordplay. 

Building on the attention generated at the Beijing International Book Fair, Explora Books confirmed that The Alliterative Alphabet Book will be featured in an upcoming edition of The New York Times Magazine, introducing the book to a broader readership. At the same time, Explora Books is actively engaging with literary agents to expand opportunities for literary representation. 

A former elementary special education teacher, John Akin spent years immersed in children’s literature, an experience that inspired him to write a book of his own. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with alliteration, Akin created The Alliterative Alphabet Book as a playful tribute to language, humor, and the joy of reading aloud. 

As part of its ongoing efforts to expand publishing opportunities for independent authors, Explora Books continues to engage with literary agents, publishers, and rights professionals to explore representation opportunities for The Alliterative Alphabet Book. Additional information about the title is available at john-akin.com. 

The Alliterative Alphabet Book is available through Amazon and other major online bookstores.

About Explora Books 

Explora Books is a book marketing firm located in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company specializes in self-publishing and marketing, taking pride in its exhaustive research and creative strategies that provide wider avenues for aspiring authors to gain recognition for their works. Explora Books aims to guide authors through the complexities of self-publishing, offering convenient solutions to navigate this process. The firm fosters and redefines creativity and innovation, setting new industry standards. Explora Books is dedicated to empowering authors globally.

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