Illinois partners with NFT Pioneers Fantastec SWAP

URBANA, Ill., Aug. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fantastec SWAP announced Wednesday (Aug. 10) that the University of Illinois has signed up for its pioneering digital collectible/NFT platform.

  • Illinois Football NFT “Season Preview Collection” available starting today.
  • Over 100 current footballers are expected to benefit from the innovative SWAP platform.
  • Fantastec SWAP specializes in creating consumer-demand NFTs at scale, allowing all Illinois student-athletes to use the cutting-edge platform.

Fantastec SWAP (www.fantastec-swap.io) will skillfully bring together the intellectual property rights of any Illini student-athlete who signs on the platform, with distinctive logos, trademarks and competition content of University of Illinois teams to create unique NFTs . Using their unmatched end-to-end NFT skills, honed with European football clubs since 2019, Fantastec SWAP will create NFT collections throughout the 2022/23 academic year to engage Fighting Illini sports fans. The Illinois Football Season Preview Collection is available today via the Fantastec SWAP APP (

“Our stable platform, tested by hundreds of thousands of global sports fans since 2019, allows us to quickly adapt the various features of the app to better engage Illinois sports fans. Illinois football teams and fans will also benefit from Fantastec SWAP being on the highly sustainable Flow blockchain and to have Fighting Illini collections alongside NFL All Day, The UFC and NBA Top Shot, among others,” said Simon Woollard, co-founder and product partner at Fantastec SWAP.

“We have deep respect for the fam-ILL-y atmosphere Coach Bielema builds with the Illinois football program. Add in having some of the biggest sports support communities like Illini Pride and we look forward to creating memorable NFT gatherings for these extremely enthusiastic Fighting Illini fans,” Woollard continued.

The Illinois football team will be the second Big Ten team to join the Fantastec SWAP community after Michigan State signed on in July.

About Fantastec SWAP: Fantastec SWAP, which can be downloaded via the Apple APP store and Google Play, creates authentic NFTs for sports fans. SWAP’s unique end-to-end NFT production process includes curation of magic moments, consumer testing for design variants, NFT crafting at different scarcity levels, construction of smart contracts that include key compliance, issues, and imprinting on the Flow blockchain. Since February 2019, SWAP has created over 2 million official NFTs for sports stars and fans in over 200 territories and countries. SWAP began life via American entrepreneur Steve Madincea and British product creator Simon Woollard in London, England. It now boasts US and UK personnel, allowing SWAP to produce NFTs and engage with consumers 24/7. For more information about Fantastec SWAP, please visit www.fantastec-swap.io or download the Fantastec SWAP app from any app store. For further information, contact: Muskaan Paintal ([email protected])

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