Overview
- Gespa says collect.fifa.com offers unlicensed gambling services under Swiss law, leading the authority to refer the matter to public prosecutors.
- The complaint singles out competitions that require monetary stakes with rewards distributed via random draws or similar chance-based mechanics.
- Right-to-buy NFTs grant priority access to 2026 World Cup ticket allocations, with secondary prices reported from about $98 to roughly $6,000.
- FIFA Collect remains operational with no public response from FIFA, as the platform runs on a bespoke Avalanche Layer-1 built with Modex after launching on Algorand in 2022.
- Reported platform data cites roughly 2.26 million NFTs minted and about $52 million in volume in a market where only Sporttip and Jouez Sport hold nationwide sports-betting licenses.