The popular gaming and entertainment platform FaZe Clan has announced a multi-year partnership with fintech company MoonPay
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FaZe Clan, the lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture, today announced a multi-year partnership with MoonPay, a leading global crypto payments infrastructure provider giving millions of users quick access to the crypto economy by offering an easy and secure way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The agreement represents MoonPay’s biggest partnership to date and establishes MoonPay as the official crypto and NFT partner of FaZe Clan.
The two brands recently cooperated to host an invite-only event called ‘FaZe Forever powered by MoonPay’ in early December. During the event, both parties showcased digital art, NFT’s, and virtual fashion from FaZe Clan’s community. The two entities have also unveiled plans to launch several media series early sometime next year. MoonPay will integrate existing content into the FaZe Clan platform, opening up both organizations to new audiences. Some of this original content will reportedly include franchises, creator events, and fan campaigns.
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CEO of FaZe Clan, Lee Trink, commented: “We’re focused on building a culture and community-led digital goods and NFT business that excites our fans and expresses the FaZe brand in new and innovative ways. As a leading voice in youth culture, it’s vital that we also deliver on our responsibility to protect our community as the world starts to embrace Web3. Our partnership with MoonPay addresses both of these objectives by creating a strong foundation and secure pathway for our journey into the Metaverse.”
MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said: “MoonPay and FaZe Clan are united by a common goal: we both aim to empower the creator and gaming economies. At MoonPay we’re building the world’s most advanced and intuitive payments solutions for buying cryptocurrencies and NFTs. And FaZe Clan’s influence in the gaming community is powerful. This exciting new partnership holds the potential to create a crypto-gaming juggernaut the likes of which the world has never seen.”
