The International Football Federation (FIFA) has generated at least six million dollars in revenue from the resale of digital tickets for the 2026 World Cup through its own NFT platform, FIFA Collect. According to the analytical company Chainalysis, the organization deducts a commission of five percent from each transaction on the secondary market, accumulating funds in a special wallet with subsequent withdrawal to a large cryptocurrency exchange. Since May 2025, twenty-four million dollars of payments from collectors have passed through the main address of the platform, which allowed more than one hundred thousand fans to gain access to matches through the purchase of digital assets that give them the right to purchase tickets.

A study of FIFA Collect smart contracts on the Avalanche network revealed a centralized transaction management structure where a single address handles primary sales, secondary transactions and automatic commission deductions. The main demand was generated by fans of the countries whose national teams qualified for the tournament, providing seventeen point six million dollars against six point six million from the rest of the world. The high entry threshold, which includes mandatory identity verification and manual verification of the origin of each questionnaire's funds, made it possible to minimize the presence of questionable transactions on the official site, although attracting a new audience unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies remained limited.

In parallel with the official platform, analysts have recorded significant activity in the decentralized prediction markets, where the trading volume for World Cup events has reached twenty billion dollars since January 2026 with the participation of about four hundred thousand wallets. Unlike the regulated FIFA platform, open markets demonstrated a higher level of risks: approximately three thousand seven hundred addresses interacted with dubious counterparties, including the HTX exchange, which was sanctioned by the United Kingdom and the European Union (at least five point four million dollars were transferred from it to the wallets of participants), as well as sources associated with fraudulent schemes and stolen funds, totaling more than two point eight million dollars.

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