Welcome to the Chiliz Monthly Overview. In this edition, we explore which World Cup countries had token burns, newly launched AI-powered tooling for the ecosystem, and what it means that Chiliz is a fully licensed sports digital asset platform in the EU and US.
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Chiliz by the numbers
CHZ token price: $0.01702 (-59.5%)
Trading volume: $32.35M (-17.7%)
Daily transactions: 49.8K (+6.2%)
CHZ staked: 2.37B CHZ (-1.6%)
The metrics are accurate at the time of publication. The percentage change is over a 30-day period.
The biggest update of the month
📰 What we’re watching: Chiliz’s Burn to Glory campaign, in which a portion of a Football World Cup team’s Fan Token treasury reserves is removed from supply every time the team wins, is reshaping its tokenomics.
So far, the teams that saw token burns were: Argentina; Portugal; Belgium; Scotland; South Africa; and Spain.
📰 Why it matters: Burn to Glory scales with how far a team advances. Wins in the group stage trigger a 1% treasury burn, rising to 2% in the Round of 32, 2.5% in the Round of 16, 5% in the quarterfinal, 7.5% in the semifinal, and 10% if a team wins the final. Since the burns only affect token reserves held in treasury, and not circulating supply, holders’ balances aren't affected.
This results in token scarcity without costing holders, as no one has to sell to benefit from the change in token value.
The distinction from a typical fan engagement feature is that supply is tied directly to sporting results, rather than sitting on top of a match as a separate bet or reward. Previous Fan Token utility, such as voting or merchandise access, functions independently of match outcomes. Burn to Glory instead links the token's supply schedule to performance itself, making the mechanism a structural feature of the asset rather than an added layer of engagement.
📰 The bigger picture: Burn to Glory builds on Fan Token Play, the mint-and-burn framework Chiliz has been testing since April to tie token supply to World Cup teams’ performance.
Structuring the burn to escalate by round rather than applying a flat rate ties supply reduction to actual results, compressing most of the campaign's impact into a small number of high-stakes matches, rather than spreading it evenly across a team's full run.
Highlighting the Chiliz Ecosystem
Socios Europe, part of the Chiliz ecosystem, became a MiCA-authorized crypto-asset service provider in the sports and blockchain sector as the EU's MiCA transitional period expired on July 1, requiring platforms serving EU customers to hold full authorization. Paired with the SEC-CFTC guidance classifying Fan Tokens in the U.S. earlier this year, it gave Chiliz regulatory clearance across both markets.
Julian La Picque, CFO of Chiliz, explained in a Forbes article how existing fan-engagement tools don't convert attention into a direct commercial relationship untethered from broadcast or attendance.
Kash released an automated trading tool on X that lets users trade CHZ and Fan Tokens by tagging the account and explaining the action to take. Outside of distribution on social media, the tool makes it easier for users to bet on each others’ predictions.
FanTokenIntel launched an MCP on the OKX AI Agent Marketplace, giving AI agents a way to query Fan Token market history, DEX liquidity, and user activity across Chiliz, Base and Solana.
CHZ token's annual inflation rate fell to 5.53% from 7.20%, on June 17. This was the latest scheduled step in the Tokenomics 2.0 decay curve set when Chiliz overhauled its inflation model in 2024. The curve is designed to keep decreasing until it hits a fixed 1.88% floor.
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