Chiliz brought Fan Tokens™ to Solana on April 28, 2026. The launch includes more than 70 licensed Fan Tokens from clubs including Paris Saint-Germain, FC Barcelona, Arsenal, Manchester City, Juventus, Inter Milan, and AC Milan. National team tokens for Argentina and Portugal are already live, with more expected as the 2026 FIFA World Cup approaches.
Fan Tokens land at a moment when Solana has quietly become the home of onchain sports. Sorare, the largest fantasy platform in crypto, migrated to Solana in late 2025 with licensed cards from FIFA, the NBA, MLB, and most major European leagues. Kalshi tokenized thousands of CFTC-regulated event contracts on Solana that December, accessible directly through Phantom, Solflare, and Jupiter. Sports-native teams have shipped alongside that liquidity: BetDEX, Purebet, Scorely, Triad Markets, and others across betting, aggregation, leveraged odds, and social prediction.
Chiliz adds the licensed fan side of the equation. The clubs, the IP, and the voting primitives now join the predictions and betting infrastructure that Solana offers.
Why Solana, Why Now
Fan Tokens have existed primarily as voting credentials inside the Socios app on the Chiliz chain. On Solana, those same tokens become DeFi-native assets that can be lent, collateralized, paired in AMMs, and integrated into the prediction and fantasy products already running onchain. Phantom's 20M users get them in the wallet they already use, alongside the sports markets and fantasy they already trade.
The timing is important as well. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is being co-hosted across 16 American cities for the first time this summer. Additionally, the SEC and CFTC issued a joint interpretation in March defining a five-category framework for digital assets. Fan Tokens fall under digital collectibles and digital tools, opening U.S. market access in a way that previously required case-by-case judgment.
What a Fan Token Actually Is
A Fan Token is a licensed digital asset issued in partnership with a sports club. Holders get voting rights on club decisions and access to rewards, experiences, and gated content through the Socios platform.
PSG holders have cast more than 400,000 votes since launch, across 140+ countries, on decisions ranging from locker room messages to a stadium mural commemorating the club's 10th Ligue 1 title. Chiliz reports Fan Tokens have generated more than $700 million in lifetime revenue for sports organizations since 2018.
The licensed IP, the audience, and the holder graph now sit on a network with composability, DeFi liquidity, and wallet distribution to extend Fan Tokens into products that change the relationship between clubs and fans.
What's Open to Build
With the licensing problem and holder graph solved, new openings exist to build products for the Solana audience:
- Fantasy and prediction settlement. Teams can use Fan Tokens as stake, collateral, settlement or payouts.
- Fan Tokens as DeFi collateral. None of the lending markets on Solana currently accept them, despite the licensed clubs behind each token and the holder base already in place.
- Collectible drops anchored in match outcomes. Sorare proved the appetite for licensed sports collectibles. Match-outcome-settled drops, distributed to existing Fan Token holders, is a potential product direction.
- Holder-gated social applications. Token holdings already make fandom legible onchain. New opportunities exist in the watch party, community access, and experience auction layers.
- Fan engagement with real consequences. Socios voting has been confined to kit polls and mural choices. Quadratic voting, conviction voting, and gated proposal mechanics open up new voting mechanisms.
The market behind this is large. The global sports industry is worth roughly $417B across media rights, merchandising, fan engagement, and SportsFi. The NFL's media rights cycle alone is worth more than $110B. Fantasy, prediction markets, sports betting, and licensed Fan Tokens are now live on one network, in front of one of the largest crypto audiences anywhere.
The next iteration of sports fandom gets built here on Solana.
Resources for Builders
Fan Tokens are issued on Solana via LayerZero's OFT standard and behave as native SPL assets.
- Builder documentation: docs.chiliz.com
- Chiliz Chain to Solana bridge: bridge.chilizchain.com