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Tristan Thompson

Basketball.fun Co-Founder (historical); NBA Veteran & Web3 Entrepreneur, Basketball.fun

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Bio

Tristan Thompson is a historical co-founder of Basketball.fun, a Web3 sports fan engagement platform built on Base and the Somnia blockchain, developed in partnership with Improbable. Thompson publicly described himself as a co-founder of the project in 2025 and wrote about his involvement in building the platform, which experimented with tokenized player shares and prediction-market-style fan engagement features. Current project leadership is headed by co-founder and CEO Hadi Teherany. In March 2026, Thompson confirmed he had stepped back from active involvement and his advisory role at Basketball.fun. As of August 2026, his current status with the project has not been confirmed as reinstated. Beyond Basketball.fun, Thompson is a 14-season NBA veteran who has been publicly engaged with Web3 projects and digital asset initiatives. Any current roles in Web3 ventures beyond Basketball.fun should be independently verified from first-party sources before attribution.

Profile at a glance

Status
Former

Work & Project Background

  • Basketball.fun

    Co-founder

Key Contributions

Basketball.fun Co-Founding

Served as a co-founder of Basketball.fun (historical), helping establish a Web3 sports fan engagement concept leveraging his NBA profile and athlete network.

Web3 Sports Engagement

Contributed to an early experiment in tokenized player share mechanics and fan prediction markets in the sports sector.

Athlete-Led Web3 Adoption

Represented a high-profile example of professional athletes entering blockchain-based entrepreneurship, bringing mainstream sports visibility to Web3 platforms.

Somnia & Base Ecosystem

Basketball.fun was built using Somnia's high-throughput blockchain and deployed on Base, contributing to real-world use cases for those ecosystems.

Timeline

2011
Drafted into the NBA; began a 14-season professional basketball career.
2025
Publicly described himself as co-founder of Basketball.fun and wrote about building the Web3 sports platform with co-founder/CEO Hadi Teherany and Improbable/Somnia.
March 2026
Confirmed stepping back from active involvement and advisory role at Basketball.fun. Current status as of August 2026 unconfirmed.
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