Real-world assets are moving beyond treasuries and real estate — and into global sports.
This week, Decentral launched on Chiliz Chain, bringing multi-million-dollar football broadcast contracts onchain as tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The protocol debuts with a $1M USDC liquidity pool offering a targeted 12% APY, marking a new phase for SportFi infrastructure.
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Turning Broadcast Rights Into On-Chain Liquidity
Football clubs often hold valuable media and broadcasting contracts — but accessing that capital early usually means relying on banks or specialized funds, often with high fees, slow timelines, and opaque processes.
Decentral offers an alternative.
The protocol allows clubs and sports organizations to tokenize future media receivables and use them as on-chain collateral. These receivables are treated as RWAs, enabling global liquidity providers to fund clubs directly through decentralized pools.
The result:
Faster access to capital for clubs
Transparent, traceable financing
Reduced reliance on traditional intermediaries
Why Chiliz Matters
Decentral chose Chiliz Chain — the leading Layer-1 built specifically for sports and entertainment — to host its on-chain credit infrastructure.
This aligns directly with Chiliz’s long-term SportFi vision, where DeFi tools power real economic activity across clubs, leagues, athletes, and fan ecosystems.
“The tokenization of core elements of the sports economy is the natural evolution of SportFi.”
Alex Dreyfus, CEO & Founder, Chiliz Group
The First Pool: What’s Live
Decentral’s initial deployment includes:
$1M USDC pool
90-day lock-up
Target 12% APY
Capital directed toward football broadcast receivable financing
For DeFi, it introduces a yield source tied to real, contracted cash flows — not crypto market cycles. For clubs, it opens a new path to working capital backed by existing revenue streams.
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A New Layer of SportFi Utility
Decentral positions itself as infrastructure connecting DeFi liquidity to the $2.3 trillion global creative economy, starting with sports media rights.
“This integration connects us to the largest on-chain sports ecosystem and allows capital to flow directly into initiatives that create real value for clubs and communities.”
Luiz Octávio, CEO & Founder, Decentral
SportFi is moving from concept to execution. With broadcast contracts now live as RWAs on Chiliz, Decentral shows how decentralized finance can support real-world sports economics — faster, more transparently, and at global scale.
