Are sports NFTs still being made? What is actually being minted today
The sports NFT market shrank massively from its 2021 peak — but it did not die. Licensed products still mint new assets today.
What is still being produced
- NBA Top Shot — Dapper Labs continues official NBA Moment drops on Flow, with new season sets and themed packs.
- Sorare — new-season licensed cards for football, NBA and MLB keep issuing, tied to the fantasy game that gives them utility.
- Club fan tokens — football clubs still issue Socios-style fan tokens used for votes and rewards.
What mostly stopped
Unlicensed and celebrity-endorsed drops: the era of athlete-adjacent collections and unofficial “sports moments” is over — killed by licence enforcement and zero collector demand.
The pattern
Surviving products share two traits: an official league/club licence, and a genuine use for the asset (a game, fan votes, set-collecting). Everything else was speculation and priced accordingly.
Sources: nbatopshot.com, sorare.com, socios.com
How the minting picture breaks down
What’s actually being minted in sports NFTs today concentrates in three lanes: licensed league products (NBA/NBPA on Flow, football-club fan tokens on Socios rails), fantasy-sports card games with weekly utility (Sorare), and athlete-endorsed collections on open markets. The volume and the buyer intent differ wildly — league-licensed product is collectible memorabilia; Sorare cards are game pieces; open-market athlete drops are the highest-risk category of the three.
