Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has given away $120,000 worth of bitcoin to WNBA players as part of its ongoing sponsorship of the women’s professional basketball league.
Players from both the New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces were rewarded with $5,000 in bitcoin from the exchange and deposited into their personal Coinbase accounts for Tuesday’s WNBA Commissioner’s Cup tournament.
Coinbase expanded its partnership with the WNBA in 2022 after becoming the WNBA and NBA’s first cryptocurrency sponsors in September 2021.
As part of the expansion, the exchange helped all players in the league set up crypto educational content and set up individual cryptocurrency accounts.